B O O K LAU N C H
MIDNIGHT’S FURIES:
THE DEADLY LEGACY OF
INDIA’S PARTITION
It should have been a moment to celebrate. At midnight on August 15, 1947, some 400 million souls across the Indian
subcontinent would gain their freedom from the British Empire. In India, a dashing Jawaharlal Nehru hoped to lead his nation
into the ranks of the postwar world’s great powers. His austere, forbidding archrival Mohammad Ali Jinnah exulted in having
won Pakistan, a new homeland for the subcontinent’s Muslims. Yet along the new border, horrific scenes were unfolding.
Massacres of Muslims on one side, and Hindus and Sikhs on the other, quickly spiraled into one of the worst slaughters of
the 20th century, opening a gulf between India and Pakistan that yawns wide seven decades later.
Today’s most menacing security threats—from global jihadism to nuclear terrorism—have roots in those few chaotic months.
In his critically acclaimed new book, Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition, author Nisid Hajari sheds new light
on how one of the world’s most dangerous and intractable rivalries was born.
Join him for the Singapore launch of the book, which has been praised by the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Wall Street
Journal, Times of London, Economist and TIME; featured on the Charlie Rose Show and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS; and named one
of Amazon’s “best books of the year so far.”
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Mr Nisid Hajari
Asia Editor, Bloomberg View
Nisid Hajari oversees Asia coverage for Bloomberg View, the editorial
page of Bloomberg News. He writes editorials on Asian politics and
economics, and edits Bloomberg's opinion columns and
commentary from the region. Midnight’s Furies is his first book.
Prior to Bloomberg, Hajari spent 10 years as a top editor at Newsweek
International and Newsweek magazine in New York, during which the
magazine won over 50 awards for its foreign coverage. From 1997 to
2001, Hajari helped to create TIME's first Asian edition in Hong Kong,
winning two General Excellence Awards from the Society of
Publishers in Asia. He has written for the New York Times, Financial
Times, Washington Post, Esquire, Slate and Conde Nast Traveler, among
other publications, and helped edit the best-selling essay collection
Reimagining India: Unlocking the Potential of Asia's Next Superpower.
Hajari has appeared as a commentator on foreign affairs for CNN,
BBC and National Public Radio, and is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations. He lives in Singapore.
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Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy
of India's Partition
By Mr Nisid Hajari
Copies of this book are sold at the Lobby,
Oei Tiong Ham Building during the event.
CHAIR
Prof Kishore Mahbubani
Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Blair P. Hall
U.S. Embassy Singapore Deputy Chief of Mission
Wednesday, 2 September 2015 5:15pm-6:30pm
Lobby, Oei Tiong Ham Building, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
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