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Return of the Infidel: A Review

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This is one book I would request all avid book lovers to read. In the 28 th edition of “Connecting Matter” (28CM), our Saturday event at Ahmedabad-based National Institute of Mass Communication and Journalism (NIMCJ), we had invited senior journalist-author Virendra Pandit in December 2017 to tell us all about his latest book, Return of the Infidel , released in New York in September 2017. What really turned out for us was an hour-long enriching and stimulating experience in an ocean of knowledge. In a question-and-answer format, streamed live on Facebook, he spoke at length about the cyclical nature of human history, rise and fall of civilizations and culture. Thank you very much sir for joining in the program. Thanks are also due to my students Amar Thakkar and Shyam Sardhara for managing #Fblive. All I would like to say is that I really felt charged up and marveled at the vast area the book covers. It not only goes into the detailed Indian history with a new pers