{"product_id":"countdown-from-bestselling-author-and-winner-of-the-2018-jnanpith-award-9780143068747","title":"Countdown From Bestselling Author And Winner Of The 2018 Jnanpith Award","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Amitav Ghosh\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 11 May 1998 the Indian government tested five nuclear devices some forty kilometres from Pokaran. Seventeen days later Pakistan tested nuclear devices of its own. About three months after the tests, Amitav Ghosh went to the Pokaran area, after which he visited Kashmir as part of the defence minister’s entourage. He also went to the Siachen glacier in the Karakoram mountains where Indian and Pakistani soldiers have been exchanging fire since 1983. Ghosh then travelled through Pakistan and Nepal. Countdown is partly a result of these journeys and conversations with many hundreds of people of the subcontinent....\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46296349835415,"sku":"9780143068747","price":147.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143068747.webp?v=1769304481","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/countdown-from-bestselling-author-and-winner-of-the-2018-jnanpith-award-9780143068747","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}