April 25, 2004
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Iron horses, camels and elephants
 Until the beginning of the 20th century, the primary modes of transport for the Maharajas and Nawabs of India comprised ornate palanquins, pedigreed horses, bedecked camels and magnificently decorated elephants....
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EXCERPTS: All in good fun
 As a nation we are rather prone to talk politics — whether at a bus-stand or in a railway compartment, hobnobbing at an exclusive cocktail party or jogging in a public park....
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An undying passion
Asim Jamal’s journalistic career spanning three decades has taken him to many countries where he was exposed to different cultures and languages. He has read French, German and Russian writers. Now,...
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ARTICLE: Jane Austen the playwright?
 A dramatization of scenes from The History of Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson was unveiled at Chawton House Library. Originally an Elizabethan manor that was owned by Austen’s brother in...
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AUTHOR: Suhayl Saadi Life of creative tension
 April 29, 2004 is the publication date for Psychoraag, the first novel by Glasgow-based author Suhayl Saadi, and by all accounts this marks the debut of a novelist well worth watching...
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REVIEWS: Relationships of accountability
 This year’s theme of the World Development Report is about basic services of education, health, drinking water, sanitation, health and electricity for poor people. It recognizes the failure of services reaching...
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REVIEWS: How to become a successful CEO
 From the minute you begin reading Jack: Straight From the Gut, by Jack Welch with John A. Byrne, it becomes evident why Welch was possibly the most respected CEO of Fortune...
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REVIEWS: To catch a thief
With the decline and fall of the Mughal Empire, India descended into anarchy and lawlessness. Robbers and murderers had a field day particularly in central and northern India. They would pick...
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REVIEWS: As wide or narrow as we choose
 In the atmosphere of somewhat self-conscious bonhomie that prevails at present between the two countries, it is instructive to read the more traditional view of the India-Pakistan relationship expressed in this...
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REVIEWS: Dilemma of the Indian Muslims
 When the great uprising of 1857 was over the Muslim community of India faced a number of problems. It was accused of being disloyal and hostile to the British government in...
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REVIEWS: On the fringe
 Abductions. Elopements. Extra- marital affairs. Double marriages. Murders. Drug dealing. Prostitution. No, this is not some racy novel from the West. It is, in fact, a collection of true life stories...
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REVIEWS: Locked in a power struggle
 Diplomacy in the Middle East is a collection of fourteen monographs. All the authors are American academics except for one who is a French professor. Two of the Americans also have...
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REVIEWS: Ice work if you can get
 This American author and traveller is cut from much the same stone as Shackleton or Amundsen, and one can sense in him a yearning for the heroic age of Antarctic travel,...
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REVIEWS: A rich life
 Syed Shamsul Hasan (1887-1981), whose biography is presented in the book under review, was an eminent leader of the All India Muslim League during the pre-partition years. He joined the League...
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