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Amitav Ghosh

Countdown

Countdown

ISBN: 9780143068747

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On 11 May 1998 the Indian government tested five nuclear devices some forty kilometres from Pokaran. Seventeen days later tested nuclear devices of its own. About three months after the tests, Amitav Ghosh went to the Pokaran area, after which he visited as part of the defence minister's entourage. He also went to the Siachen glacier in the Karakoram mountains where Indian and Pakistani soldiers have been exchanging fire since 1983. Ghosh then travelled through and .

Countdown is partly a result of these journeys and conversations with many hundreds of people of the subcontinent.
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