Sam Dalrymple

South Asia in a time of the breaking of nations

Avinash Paliwal’s gripping tale of espionage opens in 1949, with newly independent India, Pakistan and Burma racked by rivalries in one of the most intricately partitioned areas on Earth

Sheik Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh, in London in 1972. [Keystone/Getty Images]
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