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RED SKY OVER KABUL: A MEMOIR OF A FATHER AND SON IN AFGHANISTAN by By Baryalai Popalzai with Kevin McLean Speaking Tiger Books, 2023, 276 pp., INR 499.00
THE TALIBAN AND I by By Sushmita Bandyopadhyay. Translated from the original Bengali by Arunava Sinha Eka, 2023, 156 pp., INR 399.00
February 2024, volume 48, No 2

It was a Popalzai who united the many and often warring tribes of this region into one nation in 1747 through consummate leadership.

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