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A very personal favourite for Day 20 of my #20Reviews @bookstodon a fun journey picking 20 books from those tagged as 'my favourites/ The Storygraph (full list in my profile) and it seems right to end the journey at the beginning, with a story that connects me with my father and the land he called home, a book featured in my pinned list of 10 books here, and in my #20books20days
sab kuch ke liye shukriya abba

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Book cover for Kim by Edward W. Said, Rudyard Kipling
app.thestorygraph.comReview by robinwalter - Kim This story starts in the city where my grandfather was born, Lahore. And it was his son who in...

“The British were spread very thin in India. In all, a mere 1,200 colonial officials administered a nation of some 280 million. Although British Victorians shared their American cousins’ dislike of spying—the word espionage was French, after all—the precariousness of this position placed a tremendous premium on intelligence. The Raj employed networks of local agents—secretaries, newsmen, and “running-spies”—to eavesdrop on Indian society.“

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CrimeReads · How Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Kim’ Helped Create Modern EspionageBoosters of the CIA like to talk up its American ancestry, pointing out that spies helped win the Republic’s founding struggle against the British Empire as well as all its subsequent victories in …