The Blood Telegram
Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

When Americans today think of Richard Nixon, four or five episodes in his public life usually come to mind: Watergate, the Cambodia invasion, the opening to China, his TV debates with John F. Kennedy, and, perhaps, his kitchen confrontation with Nikita Khrushchev when still Dwight Eisenhower’s vice......more

I have always loved non fiction over fiction. And then I discovered the world of political histories. My grandfather migrated from Bangladesh to India in 1947, right before Independence. So technically he wasn't termed as an Bangladeshi immigrant, the tag given to Bengali Hindus who were displaced d......more

5.0 ⭐️ GENRE - NON FICTION / POLITICAL HISTORY Archer Kent Blood an American Diplomat who served as the last Consul General to Dacca, East Pakistan present day Bangladesh. The book revolves around a telegram Archer Blood sent to the State department condemning the American support of Pakistan who lig......more

When one considers the foreign policy pursued by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger decisions related to Southeast Asia and relations with the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union come to mind. In discussing Southeast Asia, the strategy pursued to end the war in Vietnam is front and center......more

A bikini of a book. Lays bare an ugly passage in American diplomacy, but conceals the true horrors of a genocide. The forced exodus of ten million Bangladeshis in 1971 - ninety percent of whom were Hindu, the genocide of an estimated three million Bangladeshis, and the rape of close to half a million......more