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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a915.4913 _bSAM/OT
100			_aSameer Arshad Khatlani
245			_aOTHER SIDE OF THE DIVIDE : Journey Into the Heart of Pakistan
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260			_aUSA _bEbury Press _c2020/01/01
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500			_aPegged on journalist Sameer Arshad Khatlani's visit to Pakistan, this book provides insights into the country beyond what we already know about it. These include details on the impact of India's soft power, thanks to Bollywood, and the remnants of Pakistan's multireligious past, and how it frittered away advantages of impressive growth in the first three decades of its existence by embracing religious conservatism. The book profiles extraordinary people-lawyers, poets, musicians and even a former military chief-who stood up to an oppressive state. It has historical anecdotes, like the story of an ordinary woman who became the 'muse and mistress', and often the 'brains behind the regime of a swinging general' who led Pakistan to ignominy in the 1971 war, that of a Sikh family which dared to swim against the tide to stay back in Pakistan after Partition, and a prostitute's son who uses his art to humanize commercial sex workers in defiance of a conservative society. The book attempts to present a contemporary portrait of Pakistan-where prohibition remains only on paper and one of the biggest taxpayers is a Parsee-owned brewery-as a complicated and conflicted country suspended between tradition and modernity.
650			_aLahore (Pakistan) - Description and travel.
650			_aPakistan - History.
650			_aPakistan - Politics and government.
650			_aKhatlani, Sameer Arshad - Travel - Pakistan -- Lahore.
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