February 9, 2003
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A new prescription
 The British Victorian liberal thinker, John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873), tells us that we...“are not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on...
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EXCERPTS: Retrospectively speaking
 Life ... is not an easy matter ... you cannot live through it without falling into prostration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness...
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ARTICLES: The human cost of war
 As a society undergoing a process of deep cultural transformation ever since the days of colonization, it would do us a lot of good to study other societies that have passed...
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ARTICLES: What the Americans are reading
 The terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the WTC on September 11, 2001 proved to be the proverbial coin with two sides. While the horror of the act which resulted in...
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AUTHOR: Joyce Carol Oates: Colliding worlds
 After the publication of her 24th novel, Joyce Carol Oates was invited to appear on the Oprah Winfrey show. The book, We were the Mulvaneys, had been chosen as one of...
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SYNDICATED REVIEWS: Toeing the empire line
 A little riskily, Niall Ferguson’s history of the British Empire opens with a long quotation from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of darkness, that solemn meditation on imperial evil. The epigraph selected by...
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SYNDICATED REVIEWS: Not so thinly disguised
 This is not a novel about Hillary Clinton going on trial for murdering Bill after catching him in a tryst with a starlet in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House....
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REVIEWS: Of Parsi philanthropy
 This is a book by women about women. The author Sunnu Farrokh Golwalla very humbly acknowledges that the title was suggested by Toxy Cowasjee, the immediate past president of Zarthosti Banu...
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REVIEWS: Inspiring the youth
 Abdul Kalam, a scientist non-pareil in space, defence and nuclear technology, an erudite scholar, an eminent writer and the President of India, is the author of the book Ignited minds,...
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REVIEWS: Musings on Indian economy
 The story of the Indian economic policy from Independence to the present day, in the words of one who contributed in large part to its shaping, “is one of evolution and...
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REVIEWS: Another dimension
The events of 9/11 and the subsequent US bombardment of Afghanistan heightened the already existing tensions between America and the Muslim world. While other international events (such as Washington’s continuing punitive...
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REVIEWS: Not always diplomatic briefs
 Since his retirement, some 20 years ago, Roedad Khan, an experienced civil servant, has devoted himself to collating source material for researchers and scholars. This is based on documents which...
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REVIEWS: Exploding old myths
 In his latest book, Qadeem Hindustan ki taareekh ke chand goshay (Indology), Rashid Malik has tried to jolt many a writer and musicologist out of their deep slumber. A historian and...
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REVIEWS: From seclusion to inclusion
 Tell me, I will forget, Show me, I may remember, But involve me and I understand....
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