Reading Update

A trio of self-explanatory titles. Time to tilt back towards fiction lol.

The Great Partition: The Making Of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan

Overview of partition, probably a better read if you have more background knowledge.

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Economics Explained by Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow

Short (~240 pages) economics primer from the 80s. Would recommend, was straightforward and evenhanded in its explanations and felt still relevant. All concrete examples use the US economy.

Singapore: A Biography by Mark Ravinder Frost and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

Holding back a joke about how biographies typically end with their subject’s death and yet this one ends in ‘65. A vivid history of Singapore from ~1400 to 1965, with a particular incorporation of eyewitness accounts I enjoyed.

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