BOOK REVIEW “The Great Divide – INDIA and PAKISTAN”
Author: Various
Edited By: Ira Pande
Language: English
Pages: 380
Cost: 495 Rs.
Publisher: Harper Collins
First Published in India: 2009
This book is actually a quarterly published by India Today and Harper Collins. It is compilation of various authors from India and Pakistan about relationship between India and Pakistan, story of partition and its effect, the future, the past and present for both the countries. After 26/11 India and Pakistan are almost went to war again.
This book is deals with various aspects of relationship between India and Pakistan. It talks about partition, how the demands for partition developed, role of Jinnah in partition, effects of partition, and reasons behind partition, how it went wrong. It also compares India and Pakistan on various aspects such as democracy, economy, culture etc. The book tries to describe why Indian democracy prospered and in Pakistan democracy could not sustain. It tries to reason out why there is still conflict between two countries after more than six decades.
The book hosts various essays on India – Pakistan by following Authors from both the countries:
1. Ashutosh Varshney
2. Arvind Sharma
3. Swapan Dasgupta
4. U.C. Dubey
5. Philip Oldenberg
6. Ashok Malik
7. B.G. Verghese
8. Meghnad Desai
9. Prem Shankar Jha
10. Salman Haidar
11. C. Raja Mohan
12. Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy
13. Ajai Sahani
14. Mukul Kesavan
15. Ajoy Bose
16. Beena Sarwar
17. Amit Baruah
18. Sonia Jabbar
19. Salima Hashmi
20. Yousuf Saeed
21. Laila Tyabji
22. Shiv Vishvnathan
23. Alok Rai
24. Ira Pande
25. Kai Friese
26. Rehan Ansari
27. Madhu Purnima Kishwar
28. Urvashi Butalia
29. Sabeena Gadi Hoke
30. Nadeem Aslam
31. Sunil Sethi
32. Daniyal Mueenuddin
33. And brilliant photographs taken by Kulwant Roy
I think this is must read book for every Indian. If I have to rate it I will give it 8 out of 10.
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