Varad Sharma highlights the tone of the book by selecting certain important instances of thought in his review. Thanks Varad.
‘Roll of Honour questions the authoritative power. It is about different identities an individual takes in different phases of life on the basis of colour, religion, community, language, and nation. The author is blunt in describing the events and the experiences (and even the abuses). … One should read this novel to get an insight about what the youth went through during troubled times in Punjab.’
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The same review appeared at The New Indian Express
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Tags: 1984, Bluestar, Khalistan, military school, Mrs. Gandhi, Punjab, riots, Roll of Honour
I remain grateful to reviewers and interviewers who discern and glean out thoughts worthy of sharing in their pieces. After her excellent review Reshmy follows it up with this interview in which I manage to surprise myself. Read on.
Tags: 1984, Bluestar, Khalistan, military school, Mrs. Gandhi, Punjab, riots, Roll of Honour
What does a writer say when a reviewer born in Bhopal in 1983 confesses that, ‘The eyes still haunt me and I am perpetually running away from certain realities in the embezzlement of fiction that may touch base human emotions but doesn’t touch human suffering at the hands of fellow countrymen. … When Amandeep Sandhu asked me to read his second book for my views as a reader I knew if I say a yes, it would be my test too. A test if the adventurous reader has the guts too.’
Then she says this on the book. I feel humbled. Please read …
Tags: 1984, Bluestar, Khalistan, military school, Mrs. Gandhi, Punjab, riots, Roll of Honour
Friends, last December I was surprised by the cold wave in Calcutta. That is when, through Julia Dutta, I met Dipali Taneja. I was hungry, blown by the cold. The evening conversation with excellent kebabs and continental food at Dipali’s gave me strength and I came away knowing I had made a new friend.
This is the Child Sexual Abuse Awareness month and suddenly Dipali asked me for an interview. I just now got the blog entry from her and am so pleased to see how she read Roll of Honour and has structured her entry. Over the past few months many readers have brought such a variety of readings to the book, Dipali sees it as a book against child sex abuse and I feel so satisfied that she sees it like that. Towards the end of the interview I have made a request to all of us readers. Read on… Thank you Dipali.
Tags: 1984, Bluestar, Khalistan, male CSA, military school, Mrs. Gandhi, Punjab, riots, Roll of Honour