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February 28, 2021 Salman Rashid’s new book is a historical and personal account of travels and cultural excavations along the Grand Trunk Road. S alman Rashid is Pakistan’s pre-eminent travel writer and the country’s most well-known traveler. His travel writing is the standard against which other travel writing on Pakistan should be judged. From Landi Kotal to Wagah: Cultural Heritage Along the Grand Trunk Road is a historical and personal account of travels and cultural excavations along the Grand Trunk Road, told at a galloping speed. The book covers the Khyber to Wagah leg of the almost 3,500 kilometres journey along the Calcutta-Khyber Grand Trunk Road, once the main artery of the subcontinent. Rashid begins his journey at the end, in Khyber, where the Grand Trunk Road stops being the road it is across Pakistan and India and becomes a way out, as well as a way in for “nearly every influx into the subcontinent, whether peaceful migration or sanguinary invasion”.

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