Shepherd's Hill by Nikhil Gulati

Family is visiting us in Hyderabad this week and we used the opportunity to visit Charminar and Golconda. And the entire time, Shepherd's Hill : the rise and fall of Golconda by Nikhil Gulati was running through the back of my mind. As soon as Luffy and I had finished The People of Indus by Nikhil Gulati, I looked him up and reached out to him to buy one of his earlier books - Shepherd's Hill. I live a few minutes away from Golconda but I haven't visited it since I moved to Hyderabad. I even drove past it once but didn't bother to make time to actually visit the place. After some back and forth, I was able to buy the book and immediately inhaled the 57 page non-fiction graphic novel! It is incredibly crisp and I hope Luffy reads it one day.

There aren't enough non-fiction graphic novel authors in India and I hope Nikhil keeps at it. I already bought his latest book The Book of Emperors: An illustrated history of the Mughals so you all will hear about him again pretty soon. I think he's doing a great job at getting people interested in Indian history (including me) and India definitely needs more introspection about our history. Now more than ever.