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Saaz Aggarwal

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An Absent Memory of a Community

In her book, Sindh: Stories from a Vanished Homeland, Saaz Agarwal explores why the region continues to remain a collective blind spot of Partition, even for Sindhis who fled to India and then tried to erase it from memory. An extract:

20 January 2013
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The Return of the Legal Thriller

After more than a decade of dull books, John Grisham strikes his original form again with a deeply satisfying read

22 December 2011
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Take Me Home

The sadness, confusion and fear one felt as a young child never does go away, realised Saaz Aggarwal as she walked the corridors of the boarding school that was once her ‘home’

17 November 2011
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True Life
Living with Parkinson’s

As the disease tried to strip him of his dignity, her father fought back with his inimitable sense of humour

25 August 2011
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Books
The Woman Who Led Deborah Baker down the Garden Path

The Pulitzer-nominated writer plots her latest biography, The Convert, in the style of a suspense thriller

26 May 2011
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True Life
I’m Not There

She is the author of many autobiographies, none of them her own. She’ll never win the Booker for no one will know the words are hers. The ghostwriter whooshes out of the cupboard to tell her side of the story.

11 February 2010
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Interrupted Faith

Ayaan Hirsi Ali once supported the fatwa on Salman Rushdie. Today, she believes that the notion that the US is attacking Islam is a conspiracy theory.

03 February 2010
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Diaspora Dissection

Five continents. Seventy five relatives. And an insightful journey, warts and all, to discover how we become the way we are.

09 December 2009
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Books
Love in the Time of Purdah

If you loved Persepolis and wept over Not Without My Daughter, this one’s for you.

16 October 2009
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Adventures of Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Translating epics like Hoshruba, etching graphic novels and the Urdu Project. Farooqi has a lot on his plate and he’s loving it

08 July 2009

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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