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On the Front Line | Books

An account of the author's time in the army, the book is strewn with his hunger for diversity in all its forms.

I was reading Lt. Gen. Zameer Uddin Shah's memoirs, The Sarkari Mussalman, when the controversy about his brother, actor Naseeruddin Shah's allegedly anti-national utterances erupted.

The irony was stark. Here was the elder brother giving glorious accounts of his regiment in the celebrated battle of Longewala in the Jaisalmer sector during the 1971 war with Pakistan and the younger brother was being taken

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