{"id":89062,"date":"2021-12-07T10:32:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T05:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=89062"},"modified":"2021-12-07T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T05:02:05","slug":"exploring-false-allies-with-manu-s-pillai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/exploring-false-allies-with-manu-s-pillai\/","title":{"rendered":"EXPLORING FALSE ALLIES WITH MANU S PILLAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-89065 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-06-at-12.50.01-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-12.50.01-PM-600x314.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-06-at-12.50.01-PM-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-06-at-12.50.01-PM-768x401.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-06-at-12.50.01-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 Prof. Meena T Pillai to explore his recent book <em>False Allies:<\/em>\u00a0<em>India\u2019s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma<\/em>\u00a0on 8<sup>th<\/sup> December. The open session will be organized by DC Books in Vyloppilli Samskrithi Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram at 5 PM. This will be an exclusive opportunity for all to meet and converse with the author.<\/p>\n<p>Pillai rose to fame with\u00a0<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\u00a0<em>Rebel Sultans and The Courtesan<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin<\/em>\u00a0marked his name in the literary scene. His fourth and latest release,\u00a0<em>False Allies<\/em> came out in September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best selling author and historian Manu S Pillai will be in conversation with Prof. Meena T Pillai to explore his recent book False Allies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":89064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2171],"tags":[2192,2193,2195,402],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89062"}],"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=89062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89066,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89062\/revisions\/89066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}