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The riot within
Potomac Books
July 2005
On Sale: June 30, 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 1574886193
EAN: 9781574886191
Kindle: B005CWHKIG
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Non-Fiction
For four and a half years, Pamela Constable, a veteran
foreign correspondent and award-winning author, has traveled
through South Asia on assignment for the Washington
Post. Following religious conflicts, political crises,
and natural disasters, she also searched for signs of
humanity and dignity in societies rife with violence,
poverty, prejudice, and greed.
In Afghanistan, she
made numerous visits while the country suffered under the
hostile rule of the Taliban, attempted to reach the capital
in a convoy that was ambushed and saw four journalists
killed. She finally moved to Kabul in late 2001 to chronicle
the country’s post-Taliban rebirth. In Pakistan, she covered
a military coup in 1999, immersed herself in the mys-terious
world of Muslim mosques and academies, and discovered both
the extremist and tolerant faces of Islam. In India, she
attended one of the largest spiritual gatherings of Hindu
pilgrims in history and then rushed to the horrific
aftermath of a devastating earthquake. She repeatedly
visited the Kashmir Valley, where Pakistani-backed Muslim
guerrillas are waging a seemingly endless war with Indian
security forces. In Nepal, she covered the crown prince’s
massacre of the royal family and journeyed to remote
villages where communist rebels brought rigid moral order to
life. In Sri Lanka, she explored a tropical paradise where
reclusive insurgents trained children to become suicide
bombers in pursuit of a utopian ethnic homeland.
Between extended sojourns in South Asia, Constable
returned to the West to reflect on the risks and rewards of
her profession, revisit her roots, and compare her
experiences with Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity. Her book
is a uniquely personal exploration of the rich but solitary
life of a foreign correspondent, set against a regional
backdrop of extraordinary political and religious tumult.
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