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Uma Mesthrie
Uma Mesthrie
Dear Krishna,
I read your book. I was so moved to tears in so many places and found the details of your search so extraordinary.
I have worked at the Pmburg archives so can imagine you being there o...
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Goolam Vahed
Goolam Vahed
Dear Krishna,
I read ”VIRIAH” in one sitting as I could not put it down. It was truly captivating. It is a really magnificent book and I was especially moved by your determination to recover the hist...
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Surendranath
Surendranath
Wonderfully researched and presented. The story of an indentured labourer who was the great-grandfather of the author. Though he says he has fictionalised a few scenes, everything appears very real, a...
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Aparna Jain
Aparna Jain
Finished reading Viriah and absolutely loved it. This is the story of the author researching his great grandfather who had left India to go to South Africa as an indenture labor. It's a fact oriented ...
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Suman Panda
Suman Panda
This noble book consisting india's ups and downs in british rulling era. it truly depicts the imaginery vertuations of past. The credibility of this book is in words worthy.
The huge investigation ...
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Ramesh Kandula
Ramesh Kandula
The biographical work ‘Viriah’ tells the story of a young Kapu boy from Korlapadu in Krishna district who leaves home after a domestic quarrel and by a quirk of fate, takes a ship to Durban, imagining...
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Harimohan Paruvu
Harimohan Paruvu
Krishna Gubili's debut book 'Viriah' is the true story of Krishna's search for his great grandfather's past, faraway in the sugar plantations of South Africa.
The kind of a story that must be told - ...
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Mohan Natarajan
Mohan Natarajan
UNPUTDOWNABLE
Amazing story of author's perseverance on how he tracked down his great grandfather’s journey to South Africa. He then narrates his life story while giving us a lesson in history of ind...
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Tushar
Tushar
Hi Krishna. Read your book - Viriah. Loved it. I am a bit old school with paper books - but this was the 1st that I bought on Kindle. The story was relatable. I am a keen student of history so I was a...
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RV
RV
Viriah- what a wonderfully written debut book ! It gave a perspective on a part of history that has been seldom written or spoken or ever discussed about ! Through the author’s personal journey we got...
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Sachin Raje
Sachin Raje
This is a remarkable book on two counts. First is the story of Viriah himself. And the second is the story of the author himself. The perseverance of patiently searching, what is literally a needle in...
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Dileep Arvind Kasargod
Dileep Arvind Kasargod
Viriah is a wonderfully narrated true story of the Author's quest to track down his ancestor's journey, understand the life he led and find the other people he left behind whom the Author never knew. ...
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Aditya Pathak
Aditya Pathak
I had a general idea of the indenture system that the British had setup, through observing Indian sounding names across Mauritius, Fiji, Trinidad etc. But never had I thought about it from the perspec...
