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Jinnah book sales soar after Jaswant Singh’s expulsion
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SHIMLA - Curiosity equals book sales. That equation seems to be at work here with copies of Jaswant Singh’s “Jinnah: India - Partition - Independence” flying off shelves as people dig into their pockets to find out why the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader expelled its veteran leader.
