{"id":88981,"date":"2021-12-06T13:01:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T07:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=88981"},"modified":"2021-12-06T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T07:31:10","slug":"manu-s-pillai-at-ernakulam-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/manu-s-pillai-at-ernakulam-today\/","title":{"rendered":"MANU S PILLAI AT ERNAKULAM TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-88988 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-06-at-12.50.00-PM-600x314.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-06-at-12.50.00-PM-600x314.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-06-at-12.50.00-PM-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-06-at-12.50.00-PM-768x401.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-06-at-12.50.00-PM.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Best selling author and historian Manu S Pillai will be in conversation with Dr. Latha S Nair to explore his recent book <em>False Allies:<\/em> <em>India&#8217;s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma<\/em> at Ernakulam today. The open session will be organized by DC Books in the Main Auditorium of St. Theresa\u2019s College at 6 PM. Do not miss out on this unique opportunity to meet and converse with the historian.<\/p>\n<p>Pillai rose to fame with <em>The Ivory Throne<\/em>, a brilliantly written work that chronicled Kerala\u2019s history over the last three centuries. With a deeply layered narrative that was centered around queen Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, he bagged the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for this book. His subsequently published books <em>Rebel Sultans and The Courtesan<\/em>, <em>The Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin<\/em> marked his name in the literary scene. His fourth and latest release, <em>False Allies<\/em> came out in September 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best selling author and historian Manu S Pillai will be in conversation with Dr. Latha S Nair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":88987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2171],"tags":[2194,2192,2193,402],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88989,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88981\/revisions\/88989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}