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JADINY — Just Another Day in New York

Azam Gill’s 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄, 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍, 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓 about the 𝟗/𝟏𝟏 twin tower attacks, with 𝟏𝟕𝟒 𝐛𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬, published by Sabre & Quill, available on Amazon worldwide. rb.gy/0daqw8

𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐲𝐭𝐡: “𝓘𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓻 𝓤𝓢 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓪𝓰𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷 𝓸𝓾𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓪𝓰𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓱𝓪𝓭 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓭𝓸𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻 𝓳𝓸𝓫𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏, 𝟗/𝟏𝟏 𝔀𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓷𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓸𝓬𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓻𝓮𝓭” 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓉 𝓌ℴ𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒽𝒶𝓋ℯ 𝒷ℯℯ𝓃 — 𝙅𝘼𝘿𝙄𝙉𝙔: 𝙅𝙐𝙎𝙏 𝘼𝙉𝙊𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍 𝘿𝘼𝙔 𝙄𝙉 𝙉𝙀𝙒 𝙔𝙊𝙍𝙆 —

𝐉𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐘’𝐬 𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐑 𝐛𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬

“… tension-filled and well-written … Azam Gill’s masterfully-crafted story, JADINY: Just Another Day in New York, . . . is one of the best reads of this decade.” Alan Brenham, award-winning author, 12 novels, former US Treasury Special Agent, Special Deputy US Marshal & Texas Police Detective.

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

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

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

“… Meticulously researched. … Azam Gill takes the reader on an incredible journey. An intriguing alternative history gem. Jaw-dropping narrative and story. A phenomenal ride.” C.G. Bauer, author of social issue thrillers like ‘Jane’s Baby.’

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

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

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

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

“Azam 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 “Inglourious Basterds” or “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” James Stejskal, former Green Beret and CIA officer, historian, novelist.

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

“Brilliantly constructed and executed. Highly recommended.” David Hodges. Author of the Detective Kate ‘Murder On The Levels’ crime mysteries.

𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐈: 𝟏𝟎𝟏 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐫. 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐢 𝐒𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐆𝐚𝐮𝐫

“𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨” Mark 𝐓𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐧, novelist.“

ℐ𝓃 𝓅ℴℯ𝓉𝓇𝓎, ℐ 𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒶𝓀 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓉𝓇𝓊𝓉𝒽..” Dr. Roopali Sircar 𝐆𝐚𝐮𝐫, poet, novelist, writer, editor, conservationist and social justice activist.

And yet, her sparkling and fructuous memory, complements Twain’s nugget of wisdom.

𝐃𝐫. 𝐆𝐚𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬.

“Propelled by my father, I began writing poetry three decades ago. The intense grief of his sudden death stirred me. Like the monsoon rain, 𝓌ℴ𝓇𝒹𝓈 𝓅ℴ𝓊𝓇ℯ𝒹 𝒾𝓃. And as the years turned pages, my poems began to tell stories embracing the world around me. The poems trace the development of my mind as I grew to understand 𝓈ℴ𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝒾𝓈𝓉ℴ𝓇𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓁 𝒾𝓃𝒻𝓁𝓊ℯ𝓃𝒸ℯ𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒸ℴ𝓃𝓃ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾ℴ𝓃𝓈.

“𝓑𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓸𝓽𝔂𝓹𝓮𝓼 is the natural outcome of my poetic oeuvre. War, widowhood, myths, rural folk, contemporary social conditions are some of the themes that haunt this volume. The poems in this volume are my spontaneous response to life’s true happenings. You may find the 𝓼𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓻𝓮 and 𝓲𝓻𝓸𝓷𝔂 sometimes difficult to bear. 𝓒𝓸𝓷𝓯𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓽 and 𝓿𝓲𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮 have, historically, and in contemporary life, obliterated images of peace.” We are not able to hear the nightingale in the concrete jungle.”

𝒟𝓇. ℛℴℴ𝓅𝒶𝓁𝒾 𝒮𝒾𝓇𝒸𝒶𝓇 𝒢𝒶𝓊𝓇 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓃𝒾ℊ𝒽𝓉𝒾𝓃ℊ𝒶𝓁ℯ 𝓌𝒽ℴ𝓈ℯ 𝓈𝒾𝓃ℊ𝒾𝓃ℊ 𝓇ℯ𝓈ℴ𝓃𝒶𝓉ℯ𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒸ℴ𝓃𝒸𝓇ℯ𝓉ℯ 𝒿𝓊𝓃ℊ𝓁ℯ.

ASKERKALI: https://shorturl.at/iyKrT

Roopali Sircar Gaur’s Books: https://shorturl.at/SuWfU

Publishers

ZARA’s WITNESS, by SHUBHRANGSHU ROY

Reviewed by Dr. Azam Gill

Shubrangshu Roy’s ground-breaking Zara’s Witness has rightly been called “brilliant and original” 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 Bach’s Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, St Exupéry’s The Little Prince, Gibran’s The Prophet and Coelho’s The Alchemist. After the ersatz blossoming of Maharesh Yogi and Ravi Shankar nudged by the Beatles’ self- grafting, this is a breath of fresh air blown from India’s multi-millennial civilization. It tests the reader’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 Marques’ adored time travel and, Zara does full justice to that convention, enhanced by the author’s own talent at crafting and orchestrating twists in the meticulous plotting.

Roy has taken “… the four stages of life as per ancient Indic wisdom: the Brahmacharya Ashrama, the Grihastha Ashrama, the Vanaprastha Ashrama and finally the Sannyasa Ashrama” 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, Zara’s Witness is a father’s loving care for his daughter, miles ahead of General Ingles’ Soldier’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 ‘hey daddy-O’ hip era? Roy’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!

Themes of Liberation in Sunset in a Cup

Dr. Azam Gill reviews Dr Santosh Bakaya’s SUNSET IN A CUP, a collection of 78 poems that employs vivid imagery and insightful metaphors, exclusively for Different Truths.

The starburst of sophisticated sensory images in Dr Santosh Bakaya’s collection of seventy-eight poems, Sunset in a Cup, offers an epicurean feast of the visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and tactile, uninhibitedly flirting with the senses. Emily Dickinson’s poem inspires the title, and Santosh Bakaya’s introductory prose is poetical. She retrieves and owns Dickinson’s imagery, elevating it to another dimension with laudable control over each thematic pearl, strung with passion. A collection of seventy-eight previously published poems, now consolidated in a single volume for justified impact and pleasure.

Emily Dickinson’s cup had sunset in it. Santosh’s cup runneth over into the saucer without an overflow on her refined embroidery.

Read the full article in Different Truths, Focus, published on 8 February 2025
https://www.differenttruths.com/focus-themes-of-liberation-in-sunset-in-a-cup/

Love, Hope and Heartbreak: A 1960-Journey Through History—Part I,

by Azam Gill

In 1960, the Indo-Pakistani conflict impacted Azam’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 ‘sir jee,’ 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 ‘son’ Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, progeny of a ‘Sir,’ 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!

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