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LIFE, DEATH AND ADDICTION INSIDE AFGHANISTAN'S OPIUM TRADE THE FARMER'S SURVIVAL. THE TALIBAN'S FIGHT. THE WARLORD'S POWER. DEMOCRACY'S RUIN. AFGHANISTAN HAS BECOME THE WORLD`S LARGEST PRODUCER OF OPIUM AND ITS OFFSHOOT, HEROIN - ALL UNDER THE NOSES OF WESTERN CIVIL AND MILITARY STAKEHOLDERS. AT THE NEXUS OF THE WAR ON TERROR AND THE WAR ON DRUGS, TRUTH IS AS ELUSIVE AND FRAGILE AS THE NEW DEMOCRACY ITSELF, NOW ON THE BRINK OF BEING CONSUMED BY AN EXPANDING MIRE OF CHAOS. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND,588 ENTERED THE WAR-TORN COUNTRY ALONE AND SPENT EIGHT MONTHS INVESTIGATING AFGHANISTAN`S DEPENDENCE ON POPPY. WHO DEPENDS ON POPPY PROFITS? AND WHO PAYS THE ULTIMATE COST? ALONG THE WAY HE ENCOUNTERED AFGHANS WHOSE LIVES WERE INTIMATELY TIED TO THE TRADE: FARMERS, HARVESTERS, ERADICATORS, SMUGGLERS, POLICE, DOCTORS, ADDICTS, WARLORDS, GUN-RUNNERS, POLITICIANS - EVEN A POP-SONG LOVING TALIBAN COMMANDER. THE RESULT IS A TENSE, FASCINATING AND DEEPLY MOVING JOURNEY ALONG THE NARCOTICS TRAIL, AND A STORY ABOUT KEEPING YOUR SANITY IN A SENSELESS WORLD. जगभरात अफगाणिस्तानात सर्वांत जास्त 'पॉपी'चे - अफूचे उत्पादन केले जाते. मुख्यत अफूचा वापर नशा करण्यासाठी होतो. ऑस्ट्रेलियन पत्रकार ग्रेगॉर सेमन यांनी अफू या एकाच विषयाच्या मागे लागून प्रत्यक्ष अफगाणिस्तानात जाऊन जमवलेली माहिती, त्यांचे अनुभव व त्यांचा प्रवास या पुस्तकात कथन केला आहे. जगभरात फोफावणा-या दहशतवादामागे अफूचा पैसा कसा आहे, हे सेमन सखोल संशोधनातून आपल्यासमोर मांडतात. अफूच्या व्यवहारातून मिळणारा नफा कोणाला होतो आणि त्याची किंमत कोणाला मोजावी लागते, या प्रश्नाचा शोध घेताना सेमन यांना अफूच्या व्यवहाराशी निगडित शेतकरी, डॉक्टर, तस्कर, व्यसनाधीन माणसं, राजकारणी, पोलीस अशी विविध माणसं भेटतात. इतकंच नाही, तर इंग्रजी पॉप गाणी आवडणारा तालिबानी कमांडरही भेटतो! हा प्रवास एक वेगळेच जग आपल्या समोर उभे करतो, आपल्या कल्पनेपलीकडचे; पण वास्तववादी!


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788184984774
  • Publisher: Repro Books Limited
  • Publisher Imprint: Mehta Publishing House
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 350
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8184984774
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jan 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Marathi
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 494 gr

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