June 8, 2003
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Big business, little gains
 Terrorism is a general threat to humankind. In spite of occasional decline in the number of incidents in some societies, fresh and supplementary varieties of terrorism also develop....
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EXCERPTS: Idea of culture
 Although the concept of culture has a very long tradition in the human sciences, yet there is a lack of consensus on its characterization. It appears to be a fuzzy, yet a relevant concept....
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EXCERPTS: Going back into time
 Kathmandu Valley is a small bowl, 25 kilometres in diameter, which has been dotted with small and large settlements since ancient times....
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ARTICLES: In quest of old treasures
 Throwing light on the reading habits of Ghalib in his trail-blazing biography, titled Yadgar-i-Ghalib, Maulana Altaf Hussain Hali writes: “Just as Mirza [Asadullah Khan Ghalib] never bought a house all his...
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ARTICLES: Notes, files and folders
Plunging back into biography, after a heady flight into fiction, I’ve just had a heated discussion about working methods with a friend who writes high-end biographies of European statesmen. With the...
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ARTICLES: To foster creativity
 Often a writer, a poet, or an artist wants to escape to a secluded spot to get away from the humdrum of everyday life. The tranquillity in such a place fosters...
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AUTHOR: Naiyer Masud: Mirror unto inner world
 Naiyer Masud is one of the finest contemporary Urdu short story writers, whose work captivates the reader as it opens up a window to a transient and fleeting world mirrored in...
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SYNDICATED REVIEWS: Why Hess dropped in
 On the evening of May 10, 1941 Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s Deputy Fuhrer and philosopher of National Socialism, arrived unexpectedly in Scotland by Messerschmitt and parachute. It was his unconventional choice of...
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SYNDICATED REVIEWS: Bridge between void and matter
These two books tell the before and after of a catastrophe. Philippe Petit narrates the almost unbelievable story of how, one morning in 1974, he walked for an hour across a...
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REVIEWS: Continental drift
 While extolling the virtues of American imperialism, the central thesis of Robert Kagan’s recent bestseller, Of Paradise and Power is that the “power gap” between the US and Europe is now...
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REVIEWS: A ringside view
For Khalid Hasan, the past is another country. The book has write-ups on four legacies, notably, a politician (Z.A. Bhutto), a singer (Nur Jehan), a newspaper (The Pakistan Times, and a...
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REVIEWS: Human dimensions of Partition
 In any struggle for independence, it is the colonial or the occupying power which is usually the object of hatred and fury of the people demanding freedom. The freedom movement in...
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REVIEWS: Not just a western concern
The western media — be it print, electronic or internet based — has established its total hold over all sectors of life around the world, political or apolitical, social, environmental and...
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REVIEWS: On whose side is God?
 To tell you the truth I bought the book literally judging it by the cover. It shows Dubya dressed like Usama bin Laden. On turning the book over one sees a...
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REVIEWS: A dream of the rich
 Participatory economics, Parecon for short, is in the tradition of the utopia. Utopia not in the sense of a proposed re-organization of the society beyond the possibilities offered by the existing...
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REVIEWS: Those eventful 100 years
 Perhaps there is no more effective justification for reading history in the fast paced world of our times than what Eliot says....
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