Other Side of the Divide - by Sameer Arshad Khatlani (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Pegged 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.<br>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.<br>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Sameer Arshad Khatlani is a journalist with <i>Hindustan Times</i>. He was a senior assistant editor with the <i>Indian Express </i>until June 2018. Born and raised in Kashmir, Khatlani began his career with the now-defunct Bengaluru-based <i>Vijay Times </i>in 2005 as its national affairs correspondent. He joined the <i>Times of India </i>in 2007. Over the next nine years, he was part of the newspaper's national and international news-gathering team. Khatlani has reported from Iraq and Pakistan, and covered elections and national disasters. He has a master's degree in history from Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi and is a fellow with the Hawaii-based American East-West Center, which was established by the United States Congress in 1960 to promote better relations with Asian and Pacific countries.
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