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. 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. For years he knew nothing about them, not even their names. Then he discovered that they had all been in the Second World War.... 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. The years 1939-45 might be the most revered, deplored and replayed in modern history. Yet India's extraordinary role has been hidden, from itself and from the world. 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. 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. 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. Simon Winchester in New Statesman.
RAGHU KARNAD, author, has written for Granta, the International New York Times, the Financial Times, n+1 and Caravan. He is a contributing editor at theWire.in and was the editor of Time Out Delhi. His articles and essays have won prizes including the Lorenzo Natali Award, the Every Human Has Rights Award, the Pll National Award for Reporting on the Victims of Armed Conflict, and second prize in the inaugural Financial Times-Bodley Head International Essay Competition. Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War (320 pp., 2015) will be available at the event at a special discount from HarperCollins.
Picture Credit :: Deepak Oinam