Have you read this one of the best and most popular books on India’s partition in 1947?
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Do you think that writers did justice with the topic?
Whats your favorite part from the book?
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not yet
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read it. You will like it as its on your favorite subject: partition
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ok i will try to find it so i can read it :)
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Kuldip Nayar's book...isn't it? i've heard a lot about it but never got a chance to read it. i will read now! :) iA
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Not by Kuldip Nayar.
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oh…but, wasn’t there a book by the same title written by Kuldip Nayar? 
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He has written a lot on partition, but there is no book by him with same / similar name.
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I'm salvating, I can't wait!
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It is well written book, I read it twice. The entire book is from Mountbatten's perspective but not the bad one at all since entire subject is contraversial and full of counter claims
But their other book, O Jerusalem is marvellous and So is Is Paris Burning? equally good
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Colins is a good duo, their most mediocre book is Once upon a time in Soviet Russia.
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Looks so interesting. Is it very sad?
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It does tells us about the massacre during partition, so that can make someone sad
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It is not very sad, partion process is just one chapter
It extols Mahatma, content with Nehru and Harsh on Jinnah
Secondly, name of chapter are very good, it summarises the entire chapter
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It is not very sad, partion process is just one chapter
It extols Mahatma, content with Nehru and Harsh on Jinnah
Secondly, name of chapter are very good, it summarises the entire chapter
Do you remember last line of the book? :D
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Do you remember last line of the book? :D
No, just some lines here and there, they write story in suspense-thriller format.
Still they can't beat my favourite, Sir VS Naipaul :)
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I thought it was about Jinahs desedents never living in Pakistan. But these English people played well they ends with a paragrah on Maharajas saying ‘The princes who once ruled one third of India’s people have faded so totally from the scene that there days of glory now seem as distant as Moghuls… The flock of glided peacocks has disappeared for ever from the Indian skyline’ 
They don’t talk about British defeat and claim ‘sun never sets…’ 
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One chapeter ends with description of difference between the grave of Rahamat Ali and MA Jinnah and difference that it had make.
British walked out on the day which they decided to, it cannot be called defeat. Till the time they were in Palenstine they controlled pretty much everything like they did in India.
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British walked out on the day which they decided to, it cannot be called defeat. Till the time they were in Palenstine they controlled pretty much everything like they did in India.
If considered from a military point of view, then yes, it was not so. But politically, it definitely was a Defeat.
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If considered from a military point of view, then yes, it was not so. But politically, it definitely was a Defeat.
Then we were not the one who defeated them, it was Hitler, He defeated them it was the time when British empire was going down, they vacated India,Ceylon, Palenstine in very quick succession, our victory, if at all it is, is not unique to be called a victory
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Then we were not the one who defeated them, it was Hitler, He defeated them it was the time when British empire was going down, they vacated India,Ceylon, Palenstine in very quick succession, our victory, if at all it is, is not unique to be called a victory
Thats why political parties in both countries still chant slogan 'asal azadi nahin mili' :p