My readers, the New Delhi World Book Fair starts tomorrow at Pragati Maidan. On Sunday, January 5, I will be available at the Bloomsbury stall (Hall No. 11, Stall No. 532-47) at 4 PM for interactions and signing of copies of Allahu Akbar: Understanding the Great Mughal in Today's India. If you are interested, please come.

I enjoyed speaking at a session on history writing at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019. It was great to share the stage with Parvati Sharma sahiba, Sutapa Basu sahiba and Dipankar Mukherjee sa'ab.

My friend Ramachandran Venkatesh informs me that renowned historian Prof Harbans Mukhia delivered the 14th Dr Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lecture at The Asiatic Society of Mumbai in which he mentioned Abu'l Fazl's Akbarnama as a primary source on Akbar, and my book, Allahu Akbar, as a good secondary source. Honoured!

Comrades, senior journalist and author Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay interviewed me two weeks ago on my book, Allahu Akbar: Understanding the Great Mughal in Today's India, for NewsClick.
This is the episode. It is in Hindustani this time. Please do watch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maa6HuOup2Y

Dear readers, my brother went to Select Citywalk mall at Saket a little while ago. There, he landed at Crossword Bookstore and found my book, Allahu Akbar, prominently displayed there. He clicked some pics that I'm sharing here. I hope these tempt you to pick up my book!

Comrades, this is a review of my book, Allahu Akbar: Understanding the Great Mughal in Today's India, in The Wire by historian Professor Harbans Mukhia. https://thewire.in/books/book-review-allahu-akbar-holds-a-mirror-to-todays-india

I had at a panel talk in Guwahati earlier this month pointed out the organised attempt by the Hindutva brigade to portray Ahom general Lachit Barphukan as a "Hindu hero" and Assam's Chhatrapati Shivaji, and the Ahom-Mughal conflict as a Hindu-Muslim war. This validates my point.

Some moments of the session I moderated at the Times Litfest Preview in Chandigarh last evening. It was great fun talking to General V P Malik (Retd) and Lt Gen Amar Aul (Retd) on the Kargil War and their experiences of it.