August 10, 2003
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Should Pakistan and India bury the hatchet?
 At a big reception in India Faiz was awarded a standing ovation as he appeared on the rostrum. He started his address by saying: “I am deeply overwhelmed by the affection...
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Excerpts / Choice: Crisis of poverty
 POVERTY has increased sharply during the 1990s. In terms of the calorific norm the percentage of population below the poverty line increased from 26.6 per cent in 1992-93 to 32.2 per cent in 1998-99....
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Excerpts / Choice: No age for fantasy
 DESCRIBING herself as a “bookworm”, Navid Shahzad says her reading list is determined by her profession as an educationist and her creativity as an actor. But she does a lot of reading for leisure and pleasure.....
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Author: America’s conscience
 GORE Vidal — America’s most controversial writer — is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, more than two hundred essays, many screenplays, and a memoir. A ferocious critic of the...
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Syndicated Reviews: By George, they’ve got it
 HAILED by the Right all over the world, George Orwell made an indelible contribution to the Left. He was among the first socialists effectively to challenge Stalinism which, in Marx’s phrase,...
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Syndicated Reviews: A singular view
IN 1966, while in her seventies, British journalist and novelist Rebecca West came to Mexico, assigned by the New Yorker to do an article on Leon Trotsky’s grandson, who was still...
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Review: Decline of labour power
 IN THE second half of the preceding century the global production system was transformed. Industry began discarding old modes of production and embracing new technologies. There occurred a visible change even...
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Review: Be your own light
 IT IS an irony of fate that a person who was neither a theist nor an atheist nor an agnostist was converted into a divine being after his death. In his lifetime he never preached any faith, religious doctrine, rituals or dogma. If anything, he vehemently opposed....
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Review: Cloaks and daggers in Tehran
 THE late Mohammad Mossadegh was a nationalist icon long before non-aligned nationalism was made fashionable by Sukarno, Nehru, and Tito. It is only fitting that this book has come out on...
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Review: Laughing at oneself
 IN HOBBES’ state of nature, life, famously, is solitary, nasty, brutish and short. While the Asian immigrant experience, particularly the Pakistani and Bangladeshi variety, hasn’t been quite as stark, it hasn’t...
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Review: Orwell of our time
 THERE are two Noam Chomskys. One is the modern pioneer of the systematic study of language; professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author of more than thirty books on linguistics, notably...
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Review: The paradox in man
 BEFORE writing anything about Shah Wali Allah’s book, Hajjat Allah al-Baligha, or rather its translation, The Conclusive Argument from God, it would be most appropriate to know a little about the...
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Review: Stuck in the middle
 NOMINATED for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award in 2002, Nowhere Man by Aleksander Hemon, stirs the mind with the first sentence. Like a word-leaf falling silently on the mind’s...
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Review: No stopping her
 ZORA Neale Hurston was a truly remarkable woman. She was born in 1891 in the rural deep south of America. Her parents were not dirt poor but all four grandparents had...
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In brief
THE main focus of Insaan Ji Tarikh is on the creation of the universe and the evolution of life. The voluminous work encompasses a variety of elaborately discussed schools of thought....
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Review: Patronizing women?
 THIS is a collection of essays and critical appreciation of Urdu literature written mostly by women writers. Most of the essays in the book were presented in a seminar organized by...
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