Book on Tripura showcased at Frankfurt International Book Fair

Agartala, Oct 15 : The first comprehensive book on three decade-long insurgency of Tripura-the Eyewitness-published by Lancer International Inc (US), has been showcased at the Frankfurt International Book Fair.

The publisher, Bharat Verma, said the title had already hit the Indian market and now the process of distribution was started in Europe and the US.

''It presents the situation of Tripura over the last three decades and how the state was caught in the vortex of highly patterned militant violence, deadly ethnic conflicts and planned destruction of thousand years old harmonious and peaceful coexistence of tribal and non-tribal people of the state,'' he said.

Writer of the book, a senior journalist of Tripura, correspondent of The Times of India, and Editor-in-Chief of an online news magazine www.tripurainfo.com, Manas Paul said the book sought to create a matrix of hard facts and figures with personal experiences and stories of witnesses from cross section of people.

''It has recorded in bold letters, and with appropriate interpretations, the painful litany of grisly crimes in the name of insurgency and how and why these happened,'' he elaborated.

''I did not want to make it heavy with academic discourse and discussion, rather I wanted to tell stories and exact happenings with interesting headings, like out of the jaws of death and the raid after scary night. I did not want it to gather dust on a library bookshelf,'' Mr Paul asserted.

--UNI

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