The Other Side of the Divide

The Other Side of the Divide (English, Hardcover, Khatlani Sameer Arshad)

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The Other Side of the Divide  (English, Hardcover, Khatlani Sameer Arshad)

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    • Language: English
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Publisher: Penguin Random House India
    • Genre: Travel
    • ISBN: 9780670091942, 0670091944
    • Pages: 256
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    Pegged on journalist Sameer Arshad Khatlani's visit to Pakistan, this book provides insights into the country beyond what we already know about it. These include details on the impact of India's soft power, thanks to Bollywood, and the remnants of Pakistan's multireligious past, and how it frittered away advantages of impressive growth in the first three decades of its existence by embracing religious conservatism. The book profiles extraordinary people-lawyers, poets, musicians and even a former military chief-who stood up to an oppressive state. It has historical anecdotes, like the story of an ordinary woman who became the 'muse and mistress', and often the 'brains behind the regime of a swinging general' who led Pakistan to ignominy in the 1971 war, that of a Sikh family which dared to swim against the tide to stay back in Pakistan after Partition, and a prostitute's son who uses his art to humanize commercial sex workers in defiance of a conservative society. The book attempts to present a contemporary portrait of Pakistan-where prohibition remains only on paper and one of the biggest taxpayers is a Parsee-owned brewery-as a complicated and conflicted country suspended between tradition and modernity.
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    Title
    • The Other Side of the Divide
    Imprint
    • Penguin Ebury Press
    Product Form
    • Hardcover
    Publisher
    • Penguin Random House India
    Genre
    • Travel
    ISBN13
    • 9780670091942
    Book Category
    • History and Archaeology Books
    BISAC Subject Heading
    • TRV003040
    Book Subcategory
    • Other History Books
    ISBN10
    • 0670091944
    Language
    • English
    Dimensions
    Height
    • 222 mm
    Length
    • 138 mm
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    A well written travel book.Recommended.
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