Career
Nair commissioned into 16 Maratha Light Infantry on 18 June 1971. In 1993, 16 Maratha Light Infantry was deployed in Nagaland. 20 December 1993 while heading an advance party of the battalion, his convoy was ambushed by Naga rebels.
Nair was an alumnus of Sainik School, Kazhakootam, Kerala and the National Defence Academy, Pune (38 th NDA "I" Squadron).
He served as an Instructor at the Army Intelligence school in Pune. He was also an alumnus of the Defence Services Staff College (DSSC) in Wellington and had served in Bhutan.
His career in the Indian Army spanned over two decades, during which he had held varied command and as well as staff appointments. In December 1993, he was leading an advance party of convoy in Nagaland, when they were ambushed by about one hundred insurgents.
The overwhelming fire from automatic weapons killed 1 Junior Commissioned officer and 13 jawans on the spot.
Colonel Nair who was seriously injured did not lose his courage nor was unnerved. Unmindful of his serious injury, he organised his jawans in an assault line and charged at the insurgents when they broke ranks and fled. Ashoka Chakra
Kirti Chakra.