PALE SHADOW  (English, Paperback, Sultan Akhtar Patel)

‘I think if you are sure of your shots, you should back them’. This ‘obiter-dictum’ of Ajinkya Rahane, stand-in captain of winning Indian cricket team says it all! Why did the need arise of writing this little venture by this beginner in the vast realm of active journalism in the first place? In fact, author in his nascence of innocence of adolescence watched how the canker of communalism has consistently magnified over a period of time with regional, internal and neighborly politics into ‘bee-hive’ of Nationalism. Some follies, some lapses and more of political expediencies have augmented the whole political scenario as a good veritable collage for this budding author to juxtapose for the readership to judge. This book is it, in its limited sense and self!