January 1, 2002
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Thoughts on 2002
 Only a number? Talat Abbasi Author of ‘Bitter gourd and other stories’ What’s in a number? A year by any other number will bring the same!... 
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EXCERPTS: Rearing to be the first
 PETE Sampras (USA) won seven Wimbledon men’s singles tennis titles in 1993-95 and 1997-2000. This record was set after the Challenge Round was abolished in 1922. Before this, William Charles...
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Things are never what they seem
 ACCORDING to an ancient and familiar legend, whose precise origins I have been unable to ascertain, a week before Christmas, the Archangel Michael asked his angels to visit Earth; he wanted...
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ARTICLES: Moving to new pastures
 THE year saw a new and encouraging — albeit not strong as yet — trend in Urdu publishing. From poetry and religion, some authors moved on to expand the scope of...
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ARTICLES: New talent and something for everyone
 THE outgoing year was a particularly fruitful one for Pakistani English literature. There were translations of Urdu poetry and prose, new original work in English, reprints as well as exciting young...
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ARTICLES: The romantic backlash
 MODERN literary criticism reflects a strong bias against the romantic tradition of English poetry. Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and T.E. Hulme criticized romantic themes and styles from different standpoints. Ezra Pound...
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SYNDICATED: Between the lines
 EDWARD Said introduces his collected essays, Reflections on exile, with a hymn to New York, the restless and turbulent “capital of our time”, where he has taught since 1963. Long before...
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SYNDICATED: Tyrant, ranter ... and hero of the press
 IT is one of those only-in-America stories. A 17-year-old Hungarian Jew — beanpole scrawny with weak eye-sight and not a word of English — stalks out of his stepfather’s Budapest home...
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REVIEW: Managing for change
 MANAGING for change is the outcome of research commissioned by the Aga Khan Foundation, Canada, on management practices of South Asian non-government organisations. The authors have at the outset made it...
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REVIEW: What lies on the other side
 A PROLIFIC writer of fiction which spans several genres and includes four novels, two travelogues, as well as a memoir about his childhood in India, Stephen Alter has remained consistent in...
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REVIEW: Ups and downs of life
 JAVED Jabbar is known to people as a multi-layered personality. He combines in him a number of diverse qualities, such as, the skills of politics, journalism, advertising, film making, and social...
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REVIEW: Not exactly exotic
 ANTONI Gaudi i Cornet was an extraordinary architect producing some of the world’s most incredible buildings — not so much buildings as swirling swathes of stone and bricks intricately decorated with...
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REVIEW: From the desert of Thar
 READERS of Sindhi literature are fortunate to have in Wali Ram Vallabh, a dedicated and painstaking translator, who has an irrepressible urge for sharing some fine literary pieces with his readers....
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REVIEW: For reforming society
A PROMINENT contemporary of an eminent fiction writer/journalist, Molvi Abdul Halim Sharar, Maulana Muhammad Usman Diplai (1908-1981) is credited as being one of the master fiction writers of Sindh who created socio-political awareness among the people of the province. With a view to expressing his anguish and inciting...
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