April 4, 2004
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Storing the written word
 Necessity they say is the mother of invention. It was the invention of writing that led to the need to store written documents for later use and research by others....
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EXCERPTS: Lamps lit in darkness
 Necessity they say is the mother of invention. It was the invention of writing that led to the need to store written documents for later use and research by others....
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ARTICLES: Libraries in Pakistan Time to take a fresh look
 In the early 11th century there used to be seventy public libraries in the city of Cordoba in Islamic Spain alone. It may be in contrast with 20th century Islamabad, the...
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ARTICLES: Books as companions
Currently, Ayesha Saeed is relaxing as she waits to start a career of her choice, and what better way is there to pass her time than read books. “I am the sort of person who would prefer to read before going to bed at night, rather than watch television....
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ARTICLES: Shaping sensibilities
 One day, while we were about our aforesaid daily activity, a strange car stopped in front of the porch. Several minutes passed and nothing happened. No one got.....
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AUTHOR: Yasmeen Hameed Truth unto eternity
 Yasmeen Hameed repeats the questions almost in a trance. “All I know is that I love truth and I hate falsehood....
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REVIEWS: Unveiling myths
This is a book of essays, dedicated to Omar Asghar Khan, based on research conducted between 1999-2002 while the author was at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad. It is...
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REVIEWS: A capital with distinction
 The beautiful image on the title page sets the tone for the book under review. The photograph by the author, who is a seasoned photographer, captures the first dawn of...
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REVIEWS: Perspectives on urbanization
 This book comprises papers that discuss various aspects of urbanization in India. Organized in four parts, the papers in the first section dwell at length on the various perspectives through which...
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REVIEWS: Straddling the religious divide
 The editor of this book, Bernie Keating, describes himself as an “infidel cowboy” who was raised in the frontier town of Dakota by a “lukewarm Catholic father and a fallen away...
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REVIEWS: Wartime diaries
 Often when a successful writer of commercial novels creates a very popular character, the readers of her novels refuse to let that character die. The same can be said of...
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REVIEWS: The actors’ actor
 A legend in his lifetime, Dilip Kumar is quite rightly called the actors’ actor — in the same vein as Edmund Spenser is referred to as a poets’ poet — for...
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REVIEWS: Appointment in Samarra
 There is something sad about this book. William Shawcross made his name with one of the greatest pieces of journalism, Sideshow, about the destruction of Cambodia by Richard Nixon and Henry...
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REVIEWS: Iqbal made simple
 Iqbal wrote poems for children; Iqbal wrote epics for sages. It follows that the works of Iqbal call for different levels of understanding. We have works in which the poems of...
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