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Book Synopsis On the Grand Trunk Road by : Steve Coll
Download or read book On the Grand Trunk Road written by Steve Coll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, a trek across a socially and politically damaged South Asia Bestselling author Steve Coll is one of the preeminent journalists of the twenty-first century. His last two books, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars and New York Times bestseller The Bin Ladens, have been praised for their creative insight and complex yet compelling narratives-and have put him on par with journalists such as the legendary Bob Woodward. Now, for the first time ever, the paperback edition of On the Grand Trunk Road is finally available, revised and updated with new material. Focusing on Coll's journeys in conflict-ridden India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Afghanistan as a bureau chief for The Washington Post, On the Grand Trunk Road reveals a little-seen area of the world where violence, corruption, and greed have had devastating effects on South Asians from all walks of life.
Book Synopsis Authentic Regional Cuisine of India by : Anirudh Arora
Download or read book Authentic Regional Cuisine of India written by Anirudh Arora and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - An eye-opening look at authentic rural Indian food, from Bengal to the Punjab. - Presents the fascinating food, culture, and traditions that have sprung up along one of South Asia's oldest and longest roads. - Recipes reflect the eating traditions of the real India. - Beautiful color photographs illustrate each dish. - Author is head chef at an Indian restaurant in the heart of London's West End.
Book Synopsis Food of the Grand Trunk Road by : Anirudh Arora
Download or read book Food of the Grand Trunk Road written by Anirudh Arora and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Trunk Road is one of South Asia's oldest and longest roads. For centuries, it has linked the eastern and western regions of the Indian subcontinent, running from Bengal, across north India, into Peshawar in Pakistan up to Afghanistan. Today it
Book Synopsis Bullet Up the Grand Trunk Road by : Jonathan Gregson
Download or read book Bullet Up the Grand Trunk Road written by Jonathan Gregson and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1997 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Trunk Road stretches 1600 miles, from Calcutta to the North-west frontier. Some 50 years after, it served as an escape route for 15 million refugees, following Independence and Partition, the author travels the road on a 1940s Enfield Bullet motorbike.
Book Synopsis From Landi Kotal to Wagah by : Rashid, Salman
Download or read book From Landi Kotal to Wagah written by Rashid, Salman and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Path written by Pushpesh Pant and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grand Trunk Road written by Tim Smith and published by Dewi Lewis Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Trunk Road is one of the oldest and longest highways in southern Asia. Through oral testimonies, photographs and texts, Tim Smith explores its history and shows how close links between Britain and places along the road continue to this day. The Grand Trunk Road was the main artery for conquest by the British Raj and passes through the ancestral homes of many British Asians. For the first time, the story of the profound impact of the British on this highway and its people is told in image and word.
Book Synopsis Tales Of the Open Road by : Ruskin Bond
Download or read book Tales Of the Open Road written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.’ Ruskin Bond’s travel writing is unlike what is found in most travelogues, because he will take you to the smaller, lesser-known corners of the country, acquaint you with the least-famous locals there, and describe the flora and fauna that others would have missed. And if the place is well known, Ruskin leaves the common tourist spots to find a small alley or shop where he finds colourful characters to engage in conversation. Tales of the Open Road is a collection of Ruskin Bond’s travel writing over fifty years. Here, you will encounter a tonga ride through the Shivaliks, a hidden waterfall near Rishikesh, walks along the myriad streets of Delhi (one of which used to be the richest in Asia), trips down the Grand Trunk Road, stopovers in little tea stalls in the hills around Mussoorie, and an excursion to the icy source of the Ganga at over ten thousand feet above sea level. Enriched by rare photographs that Ruskin took during his travels, Tales of the Open Road is a celebration of small-town and rural India by its most engaging chronicler.
Download or read book Directorate S written by Steve Coll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Nominated for the National Book Award for Nonfiction From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11 Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation, although often in direct opposition, with I.S.I., the Pakistani intelligence agency. While the US was trying to quell extremists, a highly secretive and compartmentalized wing of I.S.I., known as "Directorate S," was covertly training, arming, and seeking to legitimize the Taliban, in order to enlarge Pakistan's sphere of influence. After 9/11, when fifty-nine countries, led by the U. S., deployed troops or provided aid to Afghanistan in an effort to flush out the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the U.S. was set on an invisible slow-motion collision course with Pakistan. Today we know that the war in Afghanistan would falter badly because of military hubris at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the drain on resources and provocation in the Muslim world caused by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and corruption. But more than anything, as Coll makes painfully clear, the war in Afghanistan was doomed because of the failure of the United States to apprehend the motivations and intentions of I.S.I.'s "Directorate S". This was a swirling and shadowy struggle of historic proportions, which endured over a decade and across both the Bush and Obama administrations, involving multiple secret intelligence agencies, a litany of incongruous strategies and tactics, and dozens of players, including some of the most prominent military and political figures. A sprawling American tragedy, the war was an open clash of arms but also a covert melee of ideas, secrets, and subterranean violence. Coll excavates this grand battle, which took place away from the gaze of the American public. With unsurpassed expertise, original research, and attention to detail, he brings to life a narrative at once vast and intricate, local and global, propulsive and painstaking. This is the definitive explanation of how America came to be so badly ensnared in an elaborate, factional, and seemingly interminable conflict in South Asia. Nothing less than a forensic examination of the personal and political forces that shape world history, Directorate S is a complete masterpiece of both investigative and narrative journalism.
Book Synopsis The Silk Roads by : Vadime Elisseeff
Download or read book The Silk Roads written by Vadime Elisseeff and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the cultural, or intercultural, exchange that took place in the Silk Roads and the role this has played in the shaping of cultures and civilizations.
Book Synopsis Shaking Hands with Clenched Fists by : Asma Shakir Khawaja
Download or read book Shaking Hands with Clenched Fists written by Asma Shakir Khawaja and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Devil's Highway by : Luis Alberto Urrea
Download or read book The Devil's Highway written by Luis Alberto Urrea and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic). In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.
Download or read book Ameri-Khan written by Gordon King and published by . This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AMERI-KHAN: Frontier Duty on the Grand Trunk Road A novel by Gordon King The book lays out in vivid fashion US diplomat David Booth's assignment during the Eisenhower Presidency to open an American Consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan, pioneering an American diplomatic presence in the wild lawless area between the great Indus River and the border with Afghanistan. It included the fabled Khyber Pass, Baluchistan Province in the far south, and the majestic Himalayas in the far north, an area which for centuries had known only the law of the rifle and the rigors of tribal ways. The Grand Trunk Road, alive with legions of walkers and caravans, ended in Booth's district, thousands of miles from its origin in Calcutta. He made a home for his wife and children in Peshawar, opened an official American office, and hired a staff including an advisor who happened to be a member of the ruling family of a northern principality. The new office dealt with a myriad of cultural, bureaucratic and practical crises in the process of getting firmly established. (cont'd on back flap) For example, an elderly American woman died in a local hotel--and her corpse was accidentally switched with that of a tribal Khan, creating a sensation among the Pushtun tribes. An American Colonel, in charge of a training detachment assigned to the Pakistan Army, turned pacifist with messy results. A church bazaar dissolved before a riot. Later, Booth spent five nightmare days in a hospital with bulbar malaria--5% recovery rate--before retreating to his prince advisor's mountain home for a recovery. After two years of further adventures and crises for David and his family, two young Americans from Missouri arrived on foot after endless months of trekking, determined to walk around the world. Despite David's help and advice, the World Walkers managed to insult a local tribal Khan with the result that they were forced to make a quick guarded trek through tribal territory toward the Afghan border--a flight that provoked tragedy. And resulted in David welcoming his transfer orders from Washington.
Download or read book The Golden Legend written by Nadeem Aslam and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road in the fictional Pakistani city of Zamara, Nargis’s life begins to crumble around her. Soon her husband—and fellow architect—is dead and, under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, she fears that a long-hidden truth about her past will be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people’s secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and, in a country where even the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. A revelatory portrait of the human spirit, in The Golden Legend, Nadeem Aslam gives us a novel of Pakistan’s past and present—a story of corruption and resilience, of love and terror, and of the disguises that are sometimes necessary for survival.
Author :Donovan L. Hofsommer Publisher :East Lansing : Michigan State University Press ISBN 13 :9780870134067 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (34 download)
Book Synopsis Grand Trunk Corporation by : Donovan L. Hofsommer
Download or read book Grand Trunk Corporation written by Donovan L. Hofsommer and published by East Lansing : Michigan State University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Detroit, Michigan-based Grand Trunk Corporation was established more than two decades ago by Canadian National to oversee and maximize the potential of its railroad holdings in the United States. By making use of corporate records, oral histories, and archival material, Hofsommer uncovers the interesting and complex history of the Grand Trunk from its inception in 1971 through 1992. Grand Trunk Corporation is complete in its detail, giving new insight into the turbulent era of deregulation, free trade, repositioning of basic industry, and the realities of the new economic order along with Canadian National's expectations for all three railroads: Grand Trunk Western, Central Vermont, and Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific.
Download or read book If written by Christopher Benfey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature At the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming its youngest winner. His influence on major figures—including Freud and William James—was pervasive and profound. But in recent decades Kipling’s reputation has suffered a strange eclipse. Though his body of work still looms large, and his monumental poem “If—” is quoted and referenced by politicians, athletes, and ordinary readers alike, his unabashed imperialist views have come under increased scrutiny. In If, scholar Christopher Benfey brings this fascinating and complex writer to life and, for the first time, gives full attention to Kipling's intense engagement with the United States—a rarely discussed but critical piece of evidence in our understanding of this man and his enduring legacy. Benfey traces the writer’s deep involvement with America over one crucial decade, from 1889 to 1899, when he lived for four years in Brattleboro, Vermont, and sought deliberately to turn himself into a specifically American writer. It was his most prodigious and creative period, as well as his happiest, during which he wrote The Jungle Book and Captains Courageous. Had a family dispute not forced his departure, Kipling almost certainly would have stayed. Leaving was the hardest thing he ever had to do, Kipling said. “There are only two places in the world where I want to live,” he lamented, “Bombay and Brattleboro. And I can’t live in either.” In this fresh examination of Kipling, Benfey hangs a provocative “what if” over Kipling’s American years and maps the imprint Kipling left on his adopted country as well as the imprint the country left on him. If proves there is relevance and magnificence to be found in Kipling’s work.
Book Synopsis Amritsar to Lahore by : Stephen Alter
Download or read book Amritsar to Lahore written by Stephen Alter and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensitive and thoughtful look at the lasting effects on everyday people of the 1947 partition of India.
