BOOKS IN BRIEF

Published October 10, 2021

Journey of an Explorer
Azmat Ansari

At the very outset, the author clarifies that this is not a translation of his memoirs, published in Urdu as Yaadon Ke Dareechay [Doorways to Memories]. Rather, this is a compendium of incidents and people that could not make it into the earlier book. Journey... begins with childhood reminiscences of Abdullahpur in Haryana, India, and then — aptly enough — goes around the world to North America, Scandinavia, the Middle East and returns home to Pakistan to end on the discovery of oil in Badin, Sindh.

Published in Dawn, Books & Authors, October 10th, 2021

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