books on 1971

BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Unquiet legacies in Salil Tripathi’s ‘The Colonel Who Would Not Repent’

Every December, my reading group chooses a book related to 1971. In 2015, for example, we read A. Qayyum Khan’s Bittersweet Victory: A Freedom Fighter’s Tale (2013) and a few years earlier we read Siddik Salik’s Witness to Surrender (Oxford University Press, 1977). 

January 31, 2025
January 31, 2025

Unquiet legacies in Salil Tripathi’s ‘The Colonel Who Would Not Repent’

Every December, my reading group chooses a book related to 1971. In 2015, for example, we read A. Qayyum Khan’s Bittersweet Victory: A Freedom Fighter’s Tale (2013) and a few years earlier we read Siddik Salik’s Witness to Surrender (Oxford University Press, 1977).