October 26, 2003
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Transport blues
 ACCORDING to the figures given by the Regional Transport Authority to the URC, 72 per cent of all commuters using buses travel by the 8,773 minibuses plying on Karachi’s roads. Minibuses are owned by individuals. Their actual price is around one million rupees each...
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Excerpts: Cinderella of the intellectuals
 ENGLAND, then, like every other European country, at last allows the worth of an artistic education; of a training as well in art manufacture as in the fine arts proper; of a system wherein theory shall march evenly with...
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Excerpts: Why is it so?
 HIGHLY critical comments have, in the recent past, appeared in the press all over the world suggesting that Muslim women in Muslim countries and societies are victims of discrimination and harassment. Somehow, an inference has been drawn...
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Articles: View from across the border
 WITH the continuing ban on import of books and magazines from India, the state of Urdu literature across the border is generally obscured from view in Pakistan. The longest surviving literary...
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Articles: Dirty Pierre wins the Booker
 AS expected the Booker went to the unlikeliest. This time is was a former drug addict and con artist who writes under the name D.B.C. Pierre. The Australian-born British writer beat...
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Articles: The truths we conceal
 THE 1971 crisis, which led to the break-up of Pakistan and the inception of Bangladesh, has been very much of a hushed affair in Pakistani politics. But it appears that at...
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Articles: A summer with books
 MY love of books started from school in England where I spent my childhood,” she says, “I was about seven years old and we had a tiny library in the corner of our classroom. It was a wonderfully cozy place, which had little brightly...
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Author: Writing to rebel
 WHY do you write? Would you agree with Albert Camus who asserts “to write is to rebel”? I guess I write because I can. And since I can write, I do. I can’t help it. I can put my...
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Review: Journalistic reflections
 TO PRACTISE law and medicine, one needs to have the necessary specialized educational qualifications — such as the LLB and the MBBS degrees. But to enter the field of journalism, you...
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Review: Voyage of self-discovery
 LIFE can at times seem pointless with its endless cycles of suffering, pain and eventual death. “A useless passion,” as Sartre described it. With each individual doomed to live out a...
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Review: Straddling the cultural fault lines
 IT WAS in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 that an obscure Afghan-American writer from California penned an email to his twenty odd friends. In it he poured...
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Review: The land of the samurai
 LIFE for a ‘gaijin’ is not easy, but Harry Niles’ wit, intelligence survival instinct and his love for the adopted country and its ways see him through in a period that...
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Review: Not a golden future
THE sub-title of the book, ‘An Essay on the Decomposition of the American System’, and its opening sentence, ‘The United States is in the process of becoming a problem for the...
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Review: Unackowledged empire
 TO MANY people the most important issue currently facing the world is the conduct of the United States vis-‘-vis other nations. This deep mistrust of America’s intentions has been accentuated since...
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In brief
THE Money Man, an autobiography by Mr Tajjamal Hussain, is a narration of events with interesting turns and twists, that shaped his career and helped him reach the top of the...
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Review: Stalwarts of their times
 BEDAAR Dil Loug contains sketches of people to whom society owes a debt of gratitude. These also happen to be people who do not belong to the top echelon of society...
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