Amaresh Misra, author of “In War of Civilisations: India AD 1857” published on the sesquicentennial anniversary of the 1857 war is currently visiting the US. A dinner meeting with him at Ijaz Syed’s place—where we also screened Lahore-based filmmaker Huma Safdar’s Punjabi documentary ‘Taropa’—and later a telephone interview with Misra has given me enough material to write a full-length report for the newspapers.