June 23, 2002
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When rulers fight
 September 11, 2001. I arrived at the airport in Islamabad, accompanied by my RAWA friend Saima and a male supporter who was our bodyguard and driver....
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EXCERPTS: Investing in the future
 The case for investing in basic high-quality education — particularly in the education of girls — has been well established. Education does more than produce clerks...
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EXCERPTS: Political tete-a-tete
 A luminary of Indian politics I would like to mention with pride and love is my brother Inder, who became prime minister of India in 1997....
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AUTHORS: Stephen Jay Gould: Scientific brilliance
 I did not personally know Stephen Jay Gould, nor had I ever met him. But like the thousands of his fans throughout the world, I feel “touched” by his writings. They...
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AUTHORS: Azra Abbas: The invincible woman
 “Accused Azra Abbas, do you plead guilty?” A magistrate of Karachi’s city court asked Azra, who was standing in the witness box at the time....
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ARTICLE: Princess Abida Sultaan: All for the Quaid’s vision
 My mother, Princess Abida Sultaan, died on May 11. A fortnight before she went to hospital, she completed her memoirs with the help of a daily diary that she had maintained...
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ARTICLES: An Asian in the Academy
 The Academie Francaise, the quasi-official arbiter of the French language for France, but also a good part of the French-speaking world, has a new member, but he’s not your everyday French...
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SYNDICATED: Capitalism’s champion
 Practical jokes, last laughs and vengeance would have been more the sphere of Groucho rather than Karl Marx. But Meghnad Desai argues that the great thinker’s most prominent legacy was a...
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REVIEWS: Looking for the sunshine
 “Nasty, brutish and short” Thomas Hobbes’ memorable lines could well refer to the lives of many women living in the developing world. According to a World Bank report on Pakistan one...
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REVIEWS: Pain and prejudice
 Since the beginning of time, men blinded by their prejudices have relentlessly shed the blood of their fellow men. Cocooned in the black folds of hatred, they have given birth to...
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REVIEWS: Communities: an academic view
 Despite the somewhat similar titles of these two books, their contents could not be further apart from each other. What is taken as a ‘community’ by a development economist, is...
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REVIEWS: Only in a fool’s paradise
It’s a shame that for anything great ever done in the subcontinent there has just got to be a cheap version that follows it. This is exactly the case with the...
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REVIEWS: Ghalib revisited
 Scholarship on Ghalib demands that we see both the woods and the trees. Hali focused our attention on the woods; Akbar Hyderi concentrates on the trees. Akbar Hyderi has been writing...
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REVIEWS: Not trivial matters
Safia Siddiqui is a short story writer who is quite well known amongst the Urdu language readers in the West. Having lived in England for a long time, she shares the...
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