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Countdown (PB) | Amitav Ghosh, Amitav
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On 11 May 1998 the Indian government tested five nuclear devices some forty kilometres from Pokaran. Seventeen days later Pakistan tested nuclear devices of its own. About three months after the tests, Amitav Ghosh went to the Pokaran area, after which he visited Kashmir as part of the defence minister s entourage. He also went to the Siachen glacier in the Karakoram mountains where Indian and Pakistani soldiers have been exchanging fire since 1983. Ghosh then travelled through Pakistan and Nepal. Countdown is partly a result of these journeys and conversations with many hundreds of people of the subcontinent.
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The American Centre used to send scholars to lecture us on this. To the extent that we've heard lectures where [American] scholars have told us how great Saudi Arabian society was, and that women could operate within their own sphere of life. After a while people said, well, if it's such a great and romantic system, perhaps the United States needs to import it themselves.

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This book is more well travelled than me!

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Countdown | Amitav Ghosh
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🔹Fiction, memoir, self-help
🔹Stephen King, JK Rowling, Jennifer Weiner
🔹The Stand, Harry Potter, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry
🔹 @BarbaraTheBibliophage @Marchpane
🔹Barnes & Noble and Amazon (I'm lame)
🔹Etsy & Out of Print
🔹My Harry Potter Funko!
🔹My recliner in the corner of the bedroom
🔹Spring. I love Spring!

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Jess7 Thanks for participating 🤗 I'm looking forward to reading this one bc I love Backman 7y
Marchpane Thank you for the lovely shout out! That's just made my day 😊 7y
dariazeoli @Jess7 I'm looking forward to reading 7y
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dariazeoli @Marchpane Happy to brighten a Monday! ☺️ 7y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Thank you for the shout out @dariazeoli 😘 7y
Jess7 Since you like memoirs - you may want to check out BookOutlet today - they are having a sale on biographies and autobiographies 🤓 7y
dariazeoli @BarbaraTheBibliophage You're very welcome ☺️ 7y
dariazeoli @Jess7 Thanks for the heads up! It was so tempting, but I'm trying to abide by my self-imposed book buying ban 😬 7y
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