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Two works of Indian fiction, separated by nearly two decades, share the same subplot: Pakistani intelligence counterfeiting Indian banknotes. The coincidence is worth examining - not for what it says about Pakistan, but for what it might say about India.
Born to a rabbinical Jewish family in what is now Ukraine, Leopold Weiss converted to Islam, became a confidant of Ibn Saud, and ended up as one of the intellectual architects of Pakistan. The life is almost too improbable to believe. It is all true.