June 30, 2002
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Dam the dams
 River valley projects are usually considered the solution for agricultural water needs, flood control, and drought mitigation....
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EXCERPTS: Strangers in our house
 The year 1998 went extremely well till August. Even my business continued to increase year by year. Unfortunately on September 1 at 8.40 pm, five dacoits entered our house by scaling the side walls....
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EXCERPTS: On the trail
 After having reached Patala in Sindh, Alexander the Great decided to retreat through Balochistan. It is said that Patala was located at the apex of the triangle...
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ARTICLE: A lifeline for Punjabi
 Ask an average, educated Punjabi if she or he has ever heard of Bulleh Shah, Baba Farid or Waris Shah and the prompt reply would be in an affirmative. Emboldened by...
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The Orange goes to...
 The £30,000 Orange prize for fiction went to Ann Patchett’s novel Bel Canto. The author had been ranked lowest on the shortlist for the award, which is open to all women...
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ARTICLE: Dialogue in prose and poetry
 NEW YORK: A gathering of poets and writers, euphemistically posted as a ‘Dialogue among civilizations’ drew a packed conference room at the Mid-Manhattan Library on Fifth Avenue recently. There was no...
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AUTHOR: Nazrul Islam: Poet with many voices
 Nazrul Islam burst on to the literary scene of Bengal at the end of the First World War like a Nietszchean ‘dancing star’. His meteoric rise to literary fame and political...
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SYNDICATED: Victoria and the big-bang theory
 Twenty-five years ago I was one of the Secretaries of State who accompanied James Callaghan to Buckingham Palace when he presented the Queen with the government’s silver jubilee gift: a silver...
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SYNDICATED: Literate, but is it literature?
It is unusual for me to choose commercial contenders for this column rather than books with more literary ambitions, but one thing I’ve never lost in years of reviewing is the...
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REVIEWS: Revealing the human spirit
 If chick flicks are women’s films, then definitely The bonesetter’s daughter by Amy Tan is a novel clearly for women. Spanning three generations of women, one Chinese, one cross cultural and...
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REVIEWS: Conducting foreign policy
Afrasiab, a career Foreign Service officer, has compiled an unusual work of reference, that is both a chronology of the triangular relations between the US, India and Pakistan, and a collection...
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REVIEWS: Not so malicious after all
 When writers feel compelled to live up to their reputations, the result often appears forced. Khushwant Singh’s claim to fame as a sexist and a voyeur has influenced Truth, love and...
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REVIEWS: Keeping an eye on education
The success of an educational system lies in how effectively it is monitored and evaluated. The book Education: evaluation and monitoring, concepts and techniques presents in a logical and coherent fashion...
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REVIEWS: Speaking with one voice
 The political language of Islam by the well-known scholar, Bernard Lewis, consists of a series of lectures originally delivered by the author at the University of Chicago in 1986. The current...
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