December 20, 2001
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Rising from the dust
 With the 1996 elections to the eleventh Lok Sabha, the Indian polity seems to have embarked upon a phase of fierce competitive politics....
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EXCERPTS: Bonds of the ancient kind
 The Asian land transport and infrastructure development programme’s origins ... could be traced back to the intercourse which prevailed between Asian states even before the birth of Christ....
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EXCERPTS: Daylight dacoities
 I have been robbed twice recently. The first time was on April 30 at the village of Pindi Bhatian, when some colleagues...
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ARTICLES: Media language and politics
 These days one hears more often than ever before about truth being the first casualty of war. The war, in this case, being the ongoing unilateral bombing of one of the...
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ARTICLES: A publishing phenomenon
 Potter creator J.K. Rowling (the J stands for Joanne and K is for Kathleen) has created publishing history. The sales of her four books about an eleven-year-old spectacled wizard have exceeded...
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AUTHOR: Agha Shahid Ali: With the ear of a poet
 What can explain it, if not fate? At eighteen, I went to Hamilton College, a small, isolated liberal arts college on a hill in the snow belt on the East Coast of America...
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CHILDREN’S BOOKS: The living city
 Mohenjo-daro: the living city is one of the series of homespun tales from Pakistan. The booklet is a collection of short stories for children — six in all, which are interrelated...
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CHILDREN’S BOOKS: All the big names
 The first children’s book in England was printed in 1744. Mary Cooper’s Tommy Thumb’s pretty song book is credited as such, and is a collection of nursery rhymes. In the subcontinent,...
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CHILDREN’S BOOKS: Bold lines, vibrant hues
 These three books for children 5-7-year-old should be found to be a useful teaching aid....
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SYNDICATED: Betrayal in the Balkans
 ‘Bosnia,’ a commentator noted as he watched the Foreign Secretary agonize at the height of the Balkan wars, ‘will be on Douglas Hurd’s tombstone. ‘Lord Hurd is still with us, but...
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SYNDICATED: A time of sorrow
Abdullah Hussein is one of the most distinguished Urdu novelists today and The weary generations is his accomplished English translation of Udaas naslein, a novel of such scope, breadth and range...
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REVIEWS (ENGLISH): The music lives on
 By the mid-forties, Manto had mastered the basic tools of his craft. Some of his most characteristic short stories like “Kali shalwar”, “Dhuan”, “Bo” and the incomparable “Hatak” had already been...
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REVIEWS (ENGLISH): Of birds and flowers
 Something to delve into, browse through, linger over, and return to! This is a book to keep and enjoy and it is the fruit of love — a love of nature...
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REVIEWS (ENGLISH): End of the game
 Michael Griffin’s Reaping the whirlwind is indeed a succinct analysis of the Taliban movement and Afghanistan’s politics after the Soviet withdrawal. Griffin’s book is full of details, historical facts and analysis....
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REVIEWS (ENGLISH): Think critically, get involved
H.W. Bellew’s detailed report was compiled in 1864 from notes and personal observations while he was serving for several years as assistant surgeon in Corps of Guides in the heartland of...
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REVIEWS(URDU & REGIONAL): Think critically, get involved
 In May 1999 the news of Dr Eqbal Ahmad’s death was ignored by the Urdu press by and large. Jang, the most widely circulated Urdu newspaper, reported the event in three...
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