December 11, 2001
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EXCERPTS: Hobson’s choice
 Nawaz Sharif, prime minister of Pakistan at the time, was under intense pressure from foreign powers not to give a tit for tat reply to India....
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EXCERPTS: Tears for the poor
 The next day, Salman arrived in town and made his way at once to the Skylarks’ headquarters. The streets he knew so well were cold but sunny...
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EXCERPTS: Of stereotypes and much else
 “Hindus and Muslims can’t live together.” That’s my first recollection of a Pakistani. I met Shazia 15 years ago, at a welcome party for international students...
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ARTICLES: Pottermania
 The book-turned-film Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone broke box-office records in the UK and the US and has become the biggest grossing film over the American Thanksgiving holiday. The film...
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ARTICLES: A poem a day, everyday
 Did anyone know when Shahryar Rashed, son of Noon Meem Rashed — that at once celebrated and controversial doyen of the Urdu vers libre — breathed his last? Fewer still are...
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ARTICLES: Rebellion against the junk
 There aren’t many magazines that can boast that half their readers have a higher degree. Or that they earn three times the national average wage. Or that they spend two and...
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AUTHOR: Anita Brookner: The twentieth book
 Anita Brookner trained as an art historian, taught at the Courtauld until 1988 and won the Booker Prize for Hotel Du Lac. She rarely gives interviews...
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SYNDICATED: Scholar, gentleman, prig, spy
 WHEN I was at school, Sir Anthony Blunt was regarded as the very model of the eminent old Marlburian: the son of the chaplain to the British Embassy in Paris, he...
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REVIEWS (ENGLISH): Of prostitution
 Bernard Shaw says somewhere that there is no harm in a Cleopatra using her physical charms to earn money. It is, however, quite another thing for a madame to get hold...
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REVIEWS (ENGLISH): The unequal half
 Mira Seth begins her account by tracing the background of the women’s struggle for their rights in the subcontinent. While the Muslim invasions since the eleventh century touched upon the lives...
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REVIEWS (ENGLISH): Single and happy?
 Until recently, women from all classes in India were not allowed to wear revealing clothes or behave “immodestly”. In other words they could not openly display affection for members of the...
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REVIEWS (ENGLISH): How the UN behaves
 As a middle power, Canada has had an abiding interest in contributing to the emergence of a rules-based international political system. Humanitarian diplomacy and peacekeeping find broad support in Canadian society....
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REVIEWS(URDU & REGIONAL): Assessing Ghalib
 Mahasan-i-Kalam-i-Ghalib, as the name itself reflects, is a zealous analysis of Diwan-i-Ghalib in which Dr Abdur Rehman Bijnori has unveiled the ever prevailing freshness and beauty of Ghalib’s poetry. Bijnori has...
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REVIEWS(URDU & REGIONAL): Taking the critic to task
 Waris Alvi is a critic’s critic. His role in Urdu literature, which he seems to enjoy a lot, is that of a watchdog of criticism. Today few critics take their work...
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REVIEWS (URDU & REGIONAL): The art of calligraphy
 The aesthetic dimension of Islamic civilization found its finest expression in its architecture and calligraphy. From Asia to Africa and even some parts of Europe, the terrain is dotted with marvellous...
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REVIEWS (URDU & REGIONAL): The man from St Petersburg
The earlier decades of the last century saw the growth of a number of political theories which found popular acceptance in cross-sections of European society. Those theories ranged from communism that...
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