Surendra Nath
Surendra Nath asked Shatrujeet Nath:

How come you are so familiar with the names of streets and the layout of the cities/ towns in Pakistan, like Karachi, Gwadar, Pasni, and also of those of other countries like Oman, Iran etc. Are they factual depiction? They look like. Have you been there?

Shatrujeet Nath Hi... I spent a lot of time researching these places with the help of Google Maps and Picasa to get an idea of what they looked like in real. I also spent a fair amount of time trawling Pakistani and non-Pakistani travel & political blogs to understand the look and feel and flavour of Pakistan. No, I have never been to Pakistan or Oman or Iran --- or the republic of Mali, for that matter :-) The only place in the book that I have been to is Amsterdam.

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