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 Prophet Mohammed's wisdom 'Ink of a Scholar is more
holy than the blood of Martyr' is right said! Great
Faith, Great Reveleations, Great Concern, Great Efforts
and a 'Bold, Outspoken Voice by MJ, the Shade of Swords
traces the roots of Jihad - 'It is not an invitation to
kill; it is an invitation to die'. Islamic faith demands
in a holy war, the blood of faithful in the defense of
their faith and this is Jihad. MJ traces the origins of
Jihad, a research of hard work that has a fantastic,
gripping story journeying across across centuries and
continents, written after the fall of Moscow.
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book delves deep into the past for the roots of Kashmiriyat, the identity and culture that has blossomed
within the ring of mountains for thousands of years.
Kashmir lies at the edge of India’s borders and at the
heart of India’s consciousness. It is not geography
that is the issue; Kashmir also guards the frontiers of
ideology. If there was a glow of hope in the deepening
shadows of a bitter partition, then it was Kashmir,
whose people consciously rejected the false patriotism
of fundamentalism and made common cause with secular
India instead of theocratic Pakistan. Kashmir was, as
Sheikh Abdullah said and Jawaharlal Nehru believed, a
stabilizing force for India. Why has that harmony
disintegrated? Why has the promise been stained by the
blood of rebellion? The Book shows Kashmir’s struggle
in the century to first free itself from feudal
oppression and then enter the world of modern India in
1947. Placing the mistakes and triumphs of those early,
formative years in the perspective of history, the book
says how the 1980s have opened the way for Kashmir’s
hitherto marginalized secessionists. Both victory and
defeat have their lessons; to forget either is to
destabilize the future. Kashmir and the mother country
are inextricably linked. India cannot afford to be
defeated in her Kashmir.
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KASHMIR: BEHIND THE
VALE
 Earlier, I
visited numerous riot- torn cities , towns and villages
-Jamshedpur, Moradabad, Sarthupur, Meerut- to discover
what lay behind the outbreaks of communal and caste
violence that have taken place in India after Partition
. In riot after riot, I pen down my findings that the
basic cause for the communal frenzy is the same: poverty
, economic deprivation and a history which has been
perverted and misused by religious zealots.
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Riot After Riot
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NEHRU :
THE MAKING OF INDIA |
 This
book has been published in the centennial year of
Jawaharlal Nehru's birth, this massive biography of
India's first prime minister Nehru.Critics have charged
Nehru with a loss of nerve in 1947, when he rejected
Gandhi's stance of "no freedom without unity," It is
that Nehru agreed to the partition of India and Pakistan
because he was convinced that Muhammad Ali Jinnah, chief
Muslim separatist, was capable of setting a torch to the
whole subcontinent. Jinnah, pushed for partition in
order to further his own political ambitions. The book
also reveals glimpses of Churchill's vicious hatred of
Indians, his unholy alliance with Jinnah and the famine
the British did little to alleviate in the early 1940s.
It's the biography of Jawaharlal Nehru with the history
of the Indian Independence Movement from 1890 to 1948.
It focus on relationships between the British and
Jinnah's Muslim League and a read to know the Facts
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Nehru - Making of India
 Traces the
history of India since the Partition in 1947, and
analyzes the current political situation and India's
future : Amazon.com Synopsis
India: The Siege Within is the account of achievements
of India’s secular democracy as well as its
vulnerability and failures. I've elaborated the origins
and nature of the strains on Indian unity which have
deep roots in history.
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India : The Siege Within
 "Journalism
is the only profession that permits you to travel without making
you a travelling salesman. You become, in
a way, a travelling purchaser...Words are the currency
of this transaction: You buy images with words, and then
you pass them with words as well" - M.J. Akbar
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SHADE OF SWORDS
Book Blurbs:
“A
skilfully crafted family saga down
three generations packed with
information of events in the
country and the world,
particularly changing Hindu-Muslim
relations. It could be a textbook
on how to write, mix fact, fiction
and history. It is beautifully
written; it deserves to be in
Category A1.” |
Khushwant
Singh
Author & Historian |
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enjoyed M.J.Akbar’s Blood
Brothers
[as though it were] my own
biography... It is an exquisitely
written narrative of truth
disguised in fiction and ends on a
note that is deeply moving and
unforgettable.” |
Sunil
Gangopadhyay
Pre-eminent Bengali novelist |
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Akbar’s Blood
Brothers
is a marvellous work of history in
the form of a deeply engaging
story of a Muslim family in
Bengal. The exploration of the
complex interface between Muslims
and Hindus over the last 150 years
has the freshness of a
first-person experience which it
actually is. A work of
considerable charm, grace and
insight. A worthy companion to his
earlier book shade of swords on
the Islam/West encounter.” |
Shyam
Benegal
Renowned film-maker |
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Brothers is
M.J. Akbar’s amazing story of three
generations of a Muslim family – based
on his own – in Telinipara and how they
deal with the fluctuating contours
of Hindu-Muslim relations. |
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Telinipara,
a small jute mill town some 30 miles north
of Kolkata along the Hooghly, is a complex
Rubik's Cube of migrant Bihari workers,
Hindus and Muslims; Bengalis, poor and 'bhadralok';
and Sahibs who live in the safe, 'foreign'
world of Victoria Jute Mill. Into this
scattered inhabitation enters a child on
the verge of starvation, Prayaag, who is
saved and adopted by a Muslim family,
converts to Islam and takes on the name of
Rahmatullah. As Rahmatullah knits
Telinipara into a community, friendship,
love, trust and faith are continually
tested by the cancer of riots. Incidents -
conversion, circumcision, the arrival of
plague or electricity - and a fascinating
array of characters - the ultimate
Brahmin, Rahmatullah's friend Girija
Maharaj, the workers' leader Bauna Sardar,
the storyteller Talat Mian, the
poet-teacher Syed Ashfaque, the smiling
mendicant, Burha Deewana, the sincere
Sahib, Simon Hogg, and then the
questioning, demanding third generation of
the author and his friend Kamala -
interlink into a narrative of social
history as well as a powerful memoir.
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Blood Brothers is a chronicle of
its age, its canvas as enchanting as its
narrative, a personal journey through
change as tensions build, stretching the
bonds of a lifetime to breaking point and
demanding,
in the end, the greatest sacrifice. Its
last chapters, written in a bare-bones,
unemotional style are the most moving, as
the author searches for hope amid raw
wounds with a surgeon's scalpel. |
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"Fratelli di Sangue"
Italian Translated version
of Blood Brothers |
 Fratelli di Sangue
Published by Neri Pozza
The Launch event was attended by M J Akbar, (the
author), the chairman of the Group-Gmc Adnkronos Knights
of Labour and Joseph Marra, and the Deputy chairman Of
the Italy-India Sandro Gozi, the president of 'Ducati
Energy' Guidalberto Guidi, the chairman of Piaggio Group
Roberto Colaninno and The entrepreneur Maurizio Romiti. |
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Fratelli di Sangue
Published by Neri Pozza
SBN 978-88-545-0186-7
Pagine 352 Pages 352
Euro 18,50 Euro 18.50
Collana: Le tavole d'oro Series: The tables gold |
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Blood Brothers
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Blood Brothers by M J Akbar
(Last Published 2006)
Blood Brothers
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MJ Books & BB Reviews
Prayaag
My grandfather died while I was playing on his chest, that was
my first stroke of luck. My elder aunt, dark, wise, hunched
against her corner of the courtyard, promptly declared that his
soul, seething with miracles, had passed into me.
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