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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a958.1047 _bBAS/FA
100			_aNarayana Basu
245			_aFALL OF KABUL _b: Despatches From Chaos
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260			_aNew Delhi _bBloomsbury _c2024
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500			_aJournalist Nayanima Basu had a ringside view of the total collapse of the republic of Afghanistan at the hands of the Taliban. From 8 to 17 August 2021, based in Kabul but travelling outside and talking to Afghans across the political spectrum, she sent despatches of the Taliban sweeping through the country, with provinces falling one after another. Covering a hostile war zone, a woman all alone, she saw the fall of Kabul in real time and managed to get out on the last flight by negotiating with Taliban bosses. Basu transports us to the heart of the action with her vivid narration and precise descriptions of what was happening in Afghanistan at large and Kabul in particular. Through her astonishing account of how she did her reporting – from asking gun-toting civilians for help to find her way back to her hotel and being chided by the hotel employees to stay safe in an iron room to being the only Indian journalist to ever interview the 'Butcher of Kabul' – Basu tells the story of not just the wreckage of the country's present but also of the contentious past that lead to it.
505			_a1. Landing in Kabul and Near Arrest: Welcome to Afghanistan 2. Pounding the Streets of Kabul 3. In Mazar as India Shuts its Last Consulate and Taliban Advances 4. Mazar, Free and Beautiful: Taliban Did Not Run It Over 5. Kabul: Growing Eerier Day by Day 6. Has the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Collapsed? 7. Mazar Gone; Can Kabul Be Far Behinf? 8. Taliban Back in Kabul, and I Stranded on Streets 9. Will I Die Today? 10. Back Homed, with a bit of Afghanistan in ME
650			_aHistory and Geography
650			_aHistory of Asia
650			_aCentral Asia
650			_aAfghanistan
650			_a1919-2001-2021
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