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title: "who wrote the A State in Denial – Pakistan’s Misguided and Dangerous and When?"  
description: "who wrote the A State in Denial – Pakistan’s Misguided and Dangerous and When?"  
author: "Deepak Aiyappa"  
published: 2018-08-27  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48475/who-wrote-the-a-state-in-denial-pakistan-s-misguided-and-dangerous-and-when  
category: "books & novels"  
tags: ["books and literature"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# who wrote the A State in Denial – Pakistan’s Misguided and Dangerous and When?

who wrote the A [State in Denial](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48604/when-was-the-a-state-in-denial-pakistan-s-misguided-and-dangerous-written) – Pakistan’s Misguided and Dangerous and When?\
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## Answers

### Answer by Harshal Vispute

**Veteran journalist B.G. Verghese's book A State in Denial** delves into a topic of enormous global importance: **[Pakistan](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/93112/why-is-nawaz-sarif-called-fugitive-pm-in-pakistan) and its place in the world.**

After a quick overview of the events that have come to define **post-independence [Pakistan](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/93112/why-is-nawaz-sarif-called-fugitive-pm-in-pakistan)**—the **battle for Kashmir**, the integration of **Karat and Hyderabad** into **India, and the creation of Bangladesh**—Verghese delves into long-debated topics like the **Indus** water treaty, **Siachen, and A.Q. Khan's** dangerous nuclear forays, using rare archival material. \
![who wrote the A State in Denial – Pakistan’s Misguided and Dangerous and When?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/21e74194-6c66-480c-a77a-f811838c2caf/images/df4272f5-fe3d-4b5c-b48f-877bff699680.jpeg) \
While examining Pakistan's current internal dissent, self-made **jihadi extremism, provincial rivalry, and military rule**, Verghese offers a gentle way out of the country's self-made dilemmas by encouraging Pakistan to become more than the Indian 'other,' and urging it to move away from fundamentalism and embrace the syncretic. \
It once knew a **Sufi-infused Islam. B.G. Verghese's** most recent work is a striking reminder that the underlying issue with **[Pakistan](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/93112/why-is-nawaz-sarif-called-fugitive-pm-in-pakistan) is not Kashmir**, but a lack of a distinct identity, a good philosophy, and the nation's refusal to completely acknowledge its history. \
**Written by** **Boobli and published by Rupa Publications India on January 1st, 2016**. He was a senior Indian journalist named George Verghese. He was the **editor of the Hindustan Times** and **The Indian Express**, two major newspapers. He won the **Ramon Magsaysay Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism in 1975.**


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