February 8, 2004
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Welcome by an old friend
 We reached Kotah, the first village of the Miangul’s territory and a large place surrounded by rice-fields, in drizzling rain, and felt glad to find camp duly pitched some distance off, outside a small fort of true mediaeval appearance....
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EXCERPTS: How the other half lives
 Upon the Sheikh’s (Sheikh Abdullah’s) death, the National Conference unanimously elected his son, Dr Farooq Abdullah, as chief minister....
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ARTICLES: How times have changed
The Abbasid Caliph Al Mamun, a scholar and poet with a great passion for learning and knowledge, founded the House of Wisdom in Baghdad in 830AD. The institute was devoted to...
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ARTICLES: Balochi books of 2003: The lyrical tradition
 The Balochi language is very rich in folk poetry as it has lyrics for every occasion of life. The birth of a child is welcomed with the singing of soothing leelo,...
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ARTICLES: Appreciating life
Kanza says that books mean a great deal to her, and that she does not have a specific time for reading. “All I have to do is find the right book,...
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ARTICLES: Voices of dissent
 ...only speech enables man (human) to be the living being he is as man (human)...
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AUTHOR: Yasmeen Lari: Journey of discovery
 When Yasmeen Lari gave up a thriving architectural practice in the year 2000 to concentrate on research and writing, she was aware that not everyone would be interested in the books...
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REVIEWS: Providing directions
 Language Policy Planning and Practice is a collection of papers presented in an international conference organized by the Centre for English of the Aga Khan University in February 2001. Besides a...
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REVIEWS: Care for a game of chess?
 Ever since John Grisham released The Firm back in 1992 and single-handedly popularized legal fiction, dozens of wannabe legal fiction best-selling authors began to pen potential blockbusters. Unfortunately, none of them...
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REVIEWS: How nations fall
 This book is based on the writer’s PhD thesis submitted with the same title to the Aligarh University. It was first published in 1966 and this is a new edition. M....
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REVIEWS: Battling past ghosts
 Nature abhors a vacuum, so that as fast as farming pulls back from marginal areas and mechanizes itself in fertile ones, so have townsfolk in various guises moved in to modernize...
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REVIEWS: Inside the bunker mentality
 Traudl Junge’s first meeting with Hitler took place in 1942, in the middle of the night. She and the other girls who had applied to be one of his three secretaries...
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REVIEWS: Learn from the heroes
Adventure and history are of the same ilk. History is made through the adventures of some men and women who happen to command the destiny of others. From the heady adventure...
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REVIEWS: Another concept of nature
 At least two great reformers could be clearly identified in the Indian subcontinent during the British raj. They were Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) and Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833). Both...
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