June 22, 2003
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Clash by another name
 The recent attack on the World Trade Centre has been called the ‘end of the post-cold war era’ and has inaugurated another war-related era: the ‘war against terror’....
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EXCERPTS: Always in tune
 When I turned three mother began to worry about my education, and she entrusted it to the husband of a distant cousin. His name was Syed Gulzar Hussain Shah....
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ARTICLES: Imperialism’s white lies
 The unilateral turn in current US foreign policy is often attributed to the “war party” consisting of neoconservative ideologues in and around the administration. But to understand what the United States...
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ARTICLES: Ancient treasure of knowledge
 London has a new landmark. The British Library. Opened to the public five years ago, it has emerged as a major crowd-puller in the British metropolis. That is not at all...
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ARTICLES: From Hardy to Harry Potter
It is a literary tradition that children, in their early years, are instructed by parents to sprinkle the right amount of classics with adventure in their ‘fictional’ reading material. I remember...
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AUTHOR: Hima Raza: Tribute to a poet
 On May 29, the poet, Hima Raza, died, after struggling for her life for several days, following a tragic car accident in London. The daughter of Raza and Naseem Kazim, she...
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SYNDICATED REVIEWS: Beneath the sands
 Jeffrey Tayler succumbed to the mystique of the Sahara long before he ever visited it. As a student of Arabic, he dreamed of shimmering dunes and inscrutable Bedouin, and of following...
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SYNDICATED REVIEWS: Hubris and humans playing god
 When Margaret Atwood’s new novel opens, her main character, Snowman, is sleeping in a tree, wrapped in a dirty bed-sheet, trying to survive in a world which has gone horribly wrong....
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REVIEWS: 1857: who was to blame?
 The uprising of 1857 has been the most controversial and profusely covered subject for historians writing about nineteenth century India. The controversy centred round the causes of the uprising, and its...
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REVIEWS: Admitting the truth
The trouble with autobiographies is that one can never really expect a sense of objectivity out of them, but then by their very nature this genre of writing tends to be...
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REVIEWS: Divergence in connectivity
 The postmodernist ‘culture wars’ raged in American academia from the early-eighties to the mid-nineties. These were conflicts where the antagonists were armed not with weapons but with abstruse theory. Academic focus...
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REVIEWS: The ugly American, once again?
 This soft-cover book, published in 2002, that is after 9/11 but before the Iraq war, has perhaps lost some of its poignancy because the reasons “why people hate America” no longer...
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REVIEWS: Till death do us part
 In the American spirit of “telling all” comes Toward Commitment, a frank and intriguing dialogue between two achievers on the contemporary US scene and their 42 married years together....
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REVIEWS: They kept the fire burning
A Zoroastrian Tapestry, edited by Pheroza J. Godrej and Firoza Punthakey Mistree, takes the reader on a delightful journey, back into time. It starts in ancient Iran — 1200 BCE,...
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