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Battle for South Asia......


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South Asia cannot anymore remain simply a point of discussion for the West. It is time the world around wakes up to the importance of South Asia for international peace and security. Today the menace presence of insurgency in India and Pakistan  has consolidated enough to tilt the very fundamentals of democracy and tell the world that  Democracy do can fight Democracy and not the other way round...

Sami Ahmad Khan's  "Red Jihad" is a powerful novel and  remains a thriller right through  its 263 pages. Sami is a young Indian author and a Fulbright scholar This is Sami's debut novel and carries everything that makes a Bestseller.

Guns,guts and intriguing politics  wrapped around a time frame of 2014 makes Red Jihad truly engrossing. The plot is built around India and Pakistan with their insurgency factors taking the lead role. The book reveals and unfolds how wrath of insurgency can create havoc that can almost bring the superpower to their knees . The book clarifies and conveys...that in coming years it will be the the internal threats that will remain more explosive than the external threats. The politics of Democracy has worked enough both in India and Pakistan to make   their  extremists forces turn into 'Frankensteins'.

If the non-state players of both the countries handshake, what will follow is something that makes the book "Red Jihad" an unstoppable reading.. Every page of the book with their chronological sequence almost makes "Red Jihad" little away from being called fiction. There are so many lines that makes you wishing them turn real...for instance page  '83'...where the Indian Army Chief shouts back at the Prime Minister..." Do not teach me what my job is, I cannot risk the lives of my men for a mere speech at the UN".....

Sami  Ahmad Khan's "Red Jihad..Battle for South Asia'' is a paperback published by Rupa Publications. Take it from me it is one book you cannot afford to miss...a great reading!

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