Category: History
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› Read more: Book Review: Savitri and the Sketchbook of Freedom-Stories of India’s forgotten daughters of courage by Shraddha Ahuja RamaniBook Review: Savitri and the Sketchbook of Freedom-Stories of India’s forgotten daughters of courage by Shraddha Ahuja Ramani
Pub by: Serene Publishers and Distributors To me, this is a first. Reading a children’s book is not something I…
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› Read more: Book Review: Shattered Lands- Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia by Sam DalrympleBook Review: Shattered Lands- Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia by Sam Dalrymple
Shattered Land-Five Partitions and the making of Modern Asia portrays the shattering and Partition of the former Indian empire from…
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› Read more: BOOK REVIEW: FAREWELL KARACHI-A PARTITION MEMOIR BY BHAWANA SOMAAYABOOK REVIEW: FAREWELL KARACHI-A PARTITION MEMOIR BY BHAWANA SOMAAYA
poignant account of a family’s displacement during the partition, and then re-rooting oneself in newer regions, facing hardships all the…
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› Read more: BOOK REVIEW: THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ BY HEATHER MORRISBOOK REVIEW: THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ BY HEATHER MORRIS
“The Tattooist of Auschwitz” retells Lale Sokolov’s harrowing experiences in Auschwitz, where he becomes a tattooist. Finding hope amidst horror…
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› Read more: BOOK REVIEW: ISRAEL’S WARS -A HISTORY SINCE 1947 (2ND EDITION) BY AHRON BREGMANBOOK REVIEW: ISRAEL’S WARS -A HISTORY SINCE 1947 (2ND EDITION) BY AHRON BREGMAN
PUBLISHED BY: ROUTLEDGE I picked up this book in view of the current situation, intrigued to know more about the…
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› Read more: BOOK REVIEW: KASHMIR III THE PARTITION TRILOGY BY MANREET SODHI SOMESHWARBOOK REVIEW: KASHMIR III THE PARTITION TRILOGY BY MANREET SODHI SOMESHWAR
PUB BY: HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS INDIA Hyderabad. Lahore. Kashmir. With ‘Kashmir’, ends the Partition Trilogy by Manreet Sodhi Someshwar –a…
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› Read more: Book Review: Hyderabad II The Partition TrilogyBook Review: Hyderabad II The Partition Trilogy
Author: Manreet Sodhi Someshwar Publisher: Harper Collins India Genre: Historical Fiction First Publication: 2022 Language: English “Hyderabad” is the story…
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› Read more: Book Review: Lahore I The Partition TrilogyBook Review: Lahore I The Partition Trilogy
By Manreet Sodhi Someshwar Publisher: Harper Collins India The book begins with fear hanging in the air. And the fear…
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› Read more: Book Review: Tiananmen Square -The Making of a Protest by Vijay GokhaleBook Review: Tiananmen Square -The Making of a Protest by Vijay Gokhale
Publisher: Harper Collins India It is a book about a country the world is keenly watching at present vis-à-vis Covid…
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› Read more: Book Review: In the Footsteps of Rama by Vikrant Pande and Neelesh KulkarniBook Review: In the Footsteps of Rama by Vikrant Pande and Neelesh Kulkarni
Published by Harper Collins India First of all, hats off to Vikrant Pande and Neelesh Kulkarni to come with the…
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› Read more: Book Review: Empire of the Moghul Brothers at War by Alex RutherfordBook Review: Empire of the Moghul Brothers at War by Alex Rutherford
A fast, engaging and compelling account of Humayun, the Moghul Emperor. This is the second book in series of Empire…
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› Read more: Book Review: 102 minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive inside the Twin TowersBook Review: 102 minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive inside the Twin Towers
This book is an engrossing account of the dramatic 102 minutes on the fight to survive inside the World Trade…
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› Read more: Book Review: India after Gandhi by Ramchandra GuhaBook Review: India after Gandhi by Ramchandra Guha
What do I say? That At Last I finished reading this mammoth literary, historical treatise? This book has been overwhelming.…
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› Read more: Book Review: Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account by Miklós Nyiszli, Tibère Kremer (Translator), Bruno Bettelheim (Foreword), Richard Seaver (Introduction)Book Review: Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account by Miklós Nyiszli, Tibère Kremer (Translator), Bruno Bettelheim (Foreword), Richard Seaver (Introduction)
This book is a horrifying testimony to the cruelties and tragedies at the Auschwitz camp during the reign of Hitler.…
Preeta Chag 