I have not lately read a finer book than this - on any subject at all.A book that will long survive, suspect, as a masterpiece. It carries us from the Calicut seafront, through Peshawar, Egypt and Iraq, to a climax in the hills of Manipur - unfolding the saga of a young family amazed by their swiftly changing world and swept up in its violence. Farthest Field narrates the lost epic of India's Second World War, in which the largest volunteer army in history fought for the British Empire, even as its countrymen fought to be free of it. Yet India's extraordinary role has been hidden, from itself and from the world. The years 1939-45 might be the most revered, deplored and replayed in modern history. dashing Manek, a pilot with India's fledgling air force gentle Ganny, an army doctor in the arid North-West Frontier and Bobby, a Parsi boy whose eagerness to follow his brothers-in-law would lead him as far as the green hell of the Imphal battlefront. Then he discovered that they had all been in the Second World War. For years he knew nothing about them, not even their names. Raghu Karnad's 'Farthest Field in Indian History of the Second World War' was released on 28th September 2015 at MFDC auditorium ABOUT : Three young men gazed at him from silver-framed photographs in his grandmother's house. Department of Tourism, Government of Manipur and IMASI: The Maharaj Kumari Binodini Devi Foundation organised the book relased function at MFDC auditorium by the Imasi Foundation Vice-Chairman RK Nimai.
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