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Sep 7, 2018 · Raghu Karnad is a journalist and the author of Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War. The book won Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar (the Indian National Academy of Letters' young writer's prize) and was shortlisted for the English PEN Prize for historical non-fiction in 2016. He has reported and written essays for Granta, the Guardian, the International New York Times, the Financial Times and n+1, including from India's tribal regions.
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Born in Mumbai and raised in Bengaluru, India, Raghu Karnad is the author of Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War (2015).In this stylish and exactingly researched work, Karnad narrates the lost epic of India's war through the lives of five young people—Karnad’s grandfather among them—who were drawn into it.
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Feb 8, 2024 · Raghu Karnad. 2529 words. According to the Mahabharata, the legendary city of Indraprastha was founded by the five Pandava brothers for their queen, Draupadi. Its wide streets and orchards surrounded a palatial hall, built by the demon-architect Maya, which appeared ‘like a mass of new clouds conspicuous in the sky’.
[Farthest Field] is an exquisitely written memoir of the wartime lives of the young Indian journalist's grandfather and two great-uncles, and is so heart-stoppingly beautiful I want all around to read it. —Simon Winchester, New York Times Book Review Raghu Karnad's Farthest Field seemed at first to me a worthy new book, filling up the large blanks in the hegemonic Anglo-American view of World War II, part of a necessary excava
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Aug 24, 2015 · Raghu Karnad tells two stories. The broader one has to do with the military experience of India in World War II; the more particular one with the war experiences (and deaths) of his grandfather and his two great-uncles. FARTHEST FIELD shines a bright light on fronts and actions of WW2 that normally receive far too little attention.
