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JADINY โ€” Just Another Day in New York

Azam Gillโ€™s ๐’…๐’Š๐’…๐’‚๐’„๐’•๐’Š๐’„, ๐’„๐’๐’–๐’๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’‡๐’‚๐’„๐’•๐’–๐’‚๐’, ๐’‰๐’Š๐’”๐’•๐’๐’“๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’๐’†๐’“ about the ๐Ÿ—/๐Ÿ๐Ÿ twin tower attacks, with ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ’ ๐›๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ฌ, published by Sabre & Quill, available on Amazon worldwide. rb.gy/0daqw8

๐…๐ซ๐ž๐๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ค ๐…๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก: “๐“˜๐“ฏ ๐“ฝ๐“ฑ๐“ฎ ๐“ท๐“ฒ๐“ท๐“ฎ ๐“ฒ๐“ท๐“ท๐“ฎ๐“ป ๐“ค๐“ข ๐“ฒ๐“ท๐“ฝ๐“ฎ๐“ต๐“ต๐“ฒ๐“ฐ๐“ฎ๐“ท๐“ฌ๐“ฎ ๐“ช๐“ฐ๐“ฎ๐“ท๐“ฌ๐“ฒ๐“ฎ๐“ผ ๐“ช๐“ท๐“ญ ๐“ฝ๐“ฑ๐“ฎ ๐“ผ๐“ฎ๐“ฟ๐“ฎ๐“ท ๐“ธ๐“พ๐“ฝ๐“ฎ๐“ป ๐“ช๐“ฐ๐“ฎ๐“ท๐“ฌ๐“ฒ๐“ฎ๐“ผ ๐“ฑ๐“ช๐“ญ ๐“ซ๐“ฎ๐“ฎ๐“ท ๐“ญ๐“ธ๐“ฒ๐“ท๐“ฐ ๐“ฝ๐“ฑ๐“ฎ๐“ฒ๐“ป ๐“ณ๐“ธ๐“ซ๐“ผ ๐“ฒ๐“ท ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ, ๐Ÿ—/๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐”€๐“ธ๐“พ๐“ต๐“ญ ๐“ท๐“ฎ๐“ฟ๐“ฎ๐“ป ๐“ฑ๐“ช๐“ฟ๐“ฎ ๐“ธ๐“ฌ๐“ฌ๐“พ๐“ป๐“ป๐“ฎ๐“ญ” ๐’œ๐“ƒ๐’น ๐’พ๐“‰ ๐“Œโ„ด๐“Š๐“๐’น ๐’ฝ๐’ถ๐“‹โ„ฏ ๐’ทโ„ฏโ„ฏ๐“ƒ โ€” ๐™…๐˜ผ๐˜ฟ๐™„๐™‰๐™”: ๐™…๐™๐™Ž๐™ ๐˜ผ๐™‰๐™Š๐™๐™ƒ๐™€๐™ ๐˜ฟ๐˜ผ๐™” ๐™„๐™‰ ๐™‰๐™€๐™’ ๐™”๐™Š๐™๐™† โ€”

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โ€œโ€ฆ tension-filled and well-written โ€ฆ Azam Gillโ€™s masterfully-crafted story, JADINY: Just Another Day in New York, . . . is one of the best reads of this decade.โ€ Alan Brenham, award-winning author, 12 novels, former US Treasury Special Agent, Special Deputy US Marshal & Texas Police Detective.

โ€œโ€ฆ meticulously researched …an engrossing tale worthy of a Quentin Tarantino screenplay, JADINY is instructive, a warning of what happened then could happen again โ€ฆ worth every page.โ€ James Stejskal, historian, novelist, former Green Beret and CIA officer.

โ€œA thriller that took courage to write! Masterfully researched, heart-wrenching, poignant, and very cathartic. A must read.โ€ Cristina LePort, Cardiologist, endorsed author of medico-political thrillers.

 โ€œCompelling. Alternative history at its best. Superb scholarship, crisp writing and riveting storytelling. Highly recommended.โ€ Joel W Barrows, District Court Judge, Amazon Best Selling Author in Political Thrillers.

โ€œโ€ฆ Meticulously researched. … Azam Gill takes the reader on an incredible journey. An intriguing alternative history gem. Jaw-dropping narrative and story. A phenomenal ride.โ€ C.G. Bauer, author of social issue thrillers like โ€˜Janeโ€™s Baby.โ€™

โ€œJADINY is an exceptionally well written, controversial political thriller, by a former scholar and military veteran. Brilliantly constructed and executed. Highly recommended.โ€ David Hodges, award-winning prolific novelist, former senior police officer.

โ€œJADINY weaves real-world organizations, covert operations, and chilling plausibility into a story that feels less like a fictional account and more like a warning.โ€ Cat Connor, author of the FBI-Byte Series and Veronica Tracey Spy/PI Series

โ€œJADINY is a brilliant transformative read that promises to let you into the real story behind the tragedy of the twin towers.โ€ Dr. R. S. Gaur, Professor, Poet, Novelist, Essayist, Activist.

โ€œโ€ฆ an unusual book, requiring extensive research and erudition โ€ฆ In Gill, I found David Baldacci, James Patterson, Dan Brown, and Lee Child all rolled into one dazzling writer.โ€ Dr. Santosh Bakaya, Professor, Poet, Biographer.

โ€œAzam Gill has meticulously researched the real background behind the people, places, organizations, and events surrounding 9/11, invented a few and assembled an engrossing tale worthy of a Quentin Tarantino screenplay much like โ€œInglourious Basterdsโ€ or โ€œOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood.โ€ James Stejskal, former Green Beret and CIA officer, historian, novelist.

โ€œMeticulously researched … an incredible journey into the what-if and what-should-have-been-done past to craft an intriguing alternative history gem โ€ฆ jaw-dropping narrative โ€ฆ a phenomenal ride.โ€ โ€“ Chris Bauer, award-winning thriller author of I HEARD YOU PAINT COWBOYS and the acclaimed abortion-issue thriller, JANEโ€™S BABY.

โ€œBrilliantly constructed and executed. Highly recommended.โ€ David Hodges. Author of the Detective Kate โ€˜Murder On The Levelsโ€™ crime mysteries.

ZARA’s WITNESS, by SHUBHRANGSHU ROY

Reviewed by Dr. Azam Gill

Shubrangshu Royโ€™s ground-breaking Zaraโ€™s Witness has rightly been called โ€œbrilliant and originalโ€ by Dr. Subhash Kak, researcher, scholar, author, professor and world authority on Indo-European studies and Information Science. In impact, Zara will smile in the company of Bachโ€™s Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, St Exupรฉryโ€™s The Little Prince, Gibranโ€™s The Prophet and Coelhoโ€™s The Alchemist. After the ersatz blossoming of Maharesh Yogi and Ravi Shankar nudged by the Beatlesโ€™ self- grafting, this is a breath of fresh air blown from Indiaโ€™s multi-millennial civilization. It tests the readerโ€™s focus and throws a challenge to finish it and, titillating dormant mechanisms fretting over the essentials of Being.
Reading Zara is not for the faint-hearted.

Yet, Roy is kind, and in the footsteps of Ezra Pound and Eliot he, too, explains, though not in footnotes but in his End Note, which is worth the wait.
Ancient Indic wisdom is often retrieved from an interlocking framework of overlapping stories in which birth, name changes, and mutation predate, exceed and outshine Gabriel Garcia Marquesโ€™ adored time travel and, Zara does full justice to that convention, enhanced by the authorโ€™s own talent at crafting and orchestrating twists in the meticulous plotting.

Roy has taken โ€œโ€ฆ the four stages of life as per ancient Indic wisdom: the Brahmacharya Ashrama, the Grihastha Ashrama, the Vanaprastha Ashrama and finally the Sannyasa Ashramaโ€ and reversed the order in his courageous undertaking. To fully appreciate the scope of his philosophical intrepidity requires, of course, proportionate courage and fortitude on the part of the reader!
Yet, Roy does not hesitate to take icons from popular western culture, strip them to the bone and let them loose to find their own place within the core and expression of his Indic perception.

And at the end of the day, Zaraโ€™s Witness is a fatherโ€™s loving care for his daughter, miles ahead of General Inglesโ€™ Soldierโ€™s Prayer for his son.

My complaints?
Why did I have to be submitted to a whole series of eeks, outahs, remembahs, wannas, lotsas outas etc of the โ€˜hey daddy-Oโ€™ hip era? Royโ€™s plums of peace seek shores of peace where the tired, poor, huddled masses can land, to breathe freely and attain peace for the sum of their existence.
Zen, Daddy-O, and thanks for an enriching read!

Love, Hope and Heartbreak: A 1960-Journey Through Historyโ€”Part I,

by Azam Gill

In 1960, the Indo-Pakistani conflict impacted Azamโ€™s family reunion, highlighting the enduring bonds of family across borders and the human cost of political strife. An exclusive

WHEN my mother, sister and I went to India, it was still five years short of the ill-thought out and unnecessary 1965 war which ensured that cousins reeling from the fratricidal madness of the 1947 massacres, topped by the 1948 Kashmir War, would remain mired in deadly squabbles over self-identification, self-image and real estate. And โ€˜sir jee,โ€™ the now ubiquitous cross-border, visa-free form of address linking vernacular Urdu and vernacular Hindi speakers in a sycophantic doublet had not even been conceived.

In 1959, General Ayub Khan, the President of Pakistan, had promoted himself to Field Marshal, not because of any laurels in battle field generalship, but only because he could. There was nobody to oppose him and, if there had been, he was sure that the result of the impending 1965 war predicted by his โ€˜sonโ€™ Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, progeny of a โ€˜Sir,โ€™ brought up by an English nanny and, groomed by good old Berkley and Oxford, would take care of it.

We all know how that went down!

Read More here https://www.differenttruths.com/love-hope-and-heartbreak-a-1960-journey-through-history-i/