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Book Review : Malala

Title : Malala Author : Christina Lamb Read on: 14 th Dec, 20   It’s a real story of Malala from Pakistan who endured her survival and right to education in presence of Taliban. The story is knitted beautifully with the details of the history of Swat people and their existence over few decades as a part of Pakistan. I learnt that Pashto is a language and they have their own style of writing poetic verses. One gets a feeling of being on tour to Swat. I can imagine all the tourists’ places and wish to see it at least once. I always thought Pakistanis to be our enemies and so do all the kids in India. It has become a mindset that almost all the people from that land are terrorists. Only in recent times, after reading and watching content on them, I do understand that there are way too many good Samaritans there. All those good voices are being suppressed. I did hear Taliban many a times in news. Never knew that it truly means a group of people who follow Islam. I thought it