April 27, 2003
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The fall of secularism
 As our numbers multiply, so do our problems. I am convinced that the suicidal rate of increase of our population has contributed to the rising communal tension in our country....
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EXCERPTS: In regal style
 Yesterday the Noble Sarkar remained in the zenana until the day advanced a quarter and a half, and continued merry-making, drinking wine and enjoying the dance of the dancing girls....
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EXCERPTS: Life in Camp 29
 Baqar Siddiqui and I were shifted to Camp 29 at Bareiley from Fort William Kolkata in February 1972. This Camp was an officers’ mess of the Indian Signal Corps located in Bareiley Cantonment...
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ARTICLE: The Pulitzers all the way
 The Pulitzer prize for biography went to Master of the Senate, Robert Caro’s third volume of US President Lyndon Johnson’s series, on April 7. The fiction prize went to Jeffrey Eugenides...
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ARTICLE: Robbing Iraq of its history
 This is a common phenomenon of history that imperial powers, after defeating their adversaries militarily, make systematic efforts to root out their historical heritage and thus reduce them to a state...
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AUTHOR: Harriet Gilbert: Exploring the written word
 On April 7, 2003, the BBC World radio service began a new weekly programme, “The Word” presented by Harriet Gilbert, the novelist, journalist and broadcaster, who also presented “Meridian Writing”. These...
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SYNDICATED REVIEWS: Supporting a benign dictator
 Last autumn Silvio Berlusconi’s lawyer, Cesare Previti, was put on trial on corruption charges. In perhaps the most talked-about Italian court case — a trial that the government has since changed...
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SYNDICATED REVIEWS: Of rabbits and military men
 How can one 350-page volume possibly tell the story of Waterloo and say much of anything new about the lives of the battle’s two great antagonists, the French Emperor Napoleon and...
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REVIEWS: Dreams are not free
 If the thirteen articles, carried by Mumbai’s Economic and Political Weekly in Nov 2002, and brought together in this book, were to be condensed in one question, a question never asked,...
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REVIEWS: To be or not to be ...
 Someone once asked me which country I thought was the strongest in the world? Before I could answer I was told the correct answer was Pakistan. The reason? In spite of...
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REVIEWS: The number game
 My last literary encounter with Peter Murray was not especially pleasant. In these very pages I cast doubts on the quality of his efforts behind his book on Tendulkar. As we...
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REVIEWS: This is Khabistan
Despite its innocuous title, Masood Raja’s novel is the grimmest of fairy tales; a scathing satire on the leadership of Pakistan. Set in the imaginary nation of Khabistan the story charts...
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REVIEWS: Step by step to the moon
 If young people aspiring to become journalists, and those who have newly joined this “complex business”, make the effort to struggle through Lynette Sheridan Burn’s Understanding Journalism, they risk ending up...
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REVIEWS: The unending struggle
 It may sound like a cliche. But Zamir Niazi is indeed the name of an institution. His extensive study and incisive criticism of the state of journalism in Pakistan is a...
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