About the Book: Stranger to History: A Son's Journey throughIslamic Lands
As a child, all Aatish Taseer ever had of his father was hisphotograph in a
browning silver frame. Raised by his Sikh mother inDelhi, his father, a
Pakistani Muslim, remained a distant figure.Itwas a fractured upbringing which
left Aatish with many questionsabout his own identity.
Stranger to History is the story of the journey Aatish made toanswer these
questions. Starting from Istanbul, Islam's oncegreatest city, he travels to
Mecca, its most holy, and then homethrough Iran and Pakistan. Ending in Lahore,
at his estrangedfather's home, on the night Benazir Bhutto was killed, it is
alsothe story