It was a bit cloudy but also uncomfortably warm last Sunday in Hyderabad as I set out for my weekly hunt for second-hand books at Chikkadpally and the pavements of Abids. As usual first stop was Chikkadpally where I picked up a title by an author I had read back in the nineties.
Sometime in the early nineties having no job I was preparing for bank exams as well as for the Civil Services. I had found a beautiful slim volume with a yellow-cream cover on preparing for the civils, I don't remember the title but the author was Parvez Dewan. I haven't forgotten the author because the book on civils was so well written with a bit of humour in it, and often I had wondered what had become of him. He was in the IAS, and since these guys are always in the news, especially those of Kashmir, I tried but couldn't find his name until last Sunday when I saw his name again on the cover of a book.
So when I spotted the cover of 'A History of Kashmir' by Parvez Dewan I knew I had to buy it. I got this interesting book for a hundred rupees.
Later at Abids I found another interesting book about Pakistan. This is my fourth or fifth title about things in Pakistan. When I saw the brightly coloured and attractive cover of 'Fighting to the End: the Pakistan Army's Way of War' by C. Christine Fair I took it out and looked at it. It seemed an interesting book but was too lengthy so I hesitated for a while before taking the plunge and buying it for two hundred rupees. I plan to read it along with all the books on Pakistan that I have on my shelves.
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