May 23, 2004
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How Punjab was modernized
 IT is hardly surprising in these circumstances that the process of canal colony settlement ultimately generated significant conflict, which flared repeatedly between colony migrants and the government in the early 20th century...
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Excerpts: Oh for peace and faith!
 BUT she knows that she is unwanted here. She has had word of that. And she knows how guests are honoured here, and these are just platitudes for honouring guests. She manages to smile back. She is tired, she has been walking since daybreak...
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Articles: Today’s ideas, yesterday’s attitudes
 THE Muslims are in a quandary. Why is their religion facing an onslaught from the western world? Is it the Muslim community that is to be blamed or does the religion need to go through some structural changes? For some serious...
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Articles: Only a few actually write
WHAT with all the literary activity going on these days, it’s a bit of a miracle that anyone ever actually writes a book. Consider the case of the young writer —...
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Articles: A memorable, bracing and tender voice
 WHEN I left school in 1971, my English teacher gave me a copy of Thom Gunn’s collection, Moly, published that same year. It was a brilliant choice. On the one hand, Gunn who died on April 25 was an establishment....
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Articles: From a new perspective
 READING to Iram Mohsin is her “escape from reality” and a “need” that varies with her mood. Nurtured on books ever since her childhood, Mohsin aptly puts forward the statement that, “I always seem to have read and my earliest memories are...
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Author: Interpreting love and self
 THOSE who know Harris Khalique are of the opinion that Harris’ upbringing and his parents’ influence in his life have made him what he is today. He is a recognized writer...
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Review: Are poets inspired by science?
 WHAT is common between science and poetry? Everything! For one, there are certain neurotransmitters in our body that switch on intense feelings and their expression in body language, speech and writing...
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Review: The great lie
 SO far as the timid American mass media goes, the best kept secret of the last 30 years in the US is the perfectly legal swindle that the super rich and...
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Review: With an eerie timelessness
 ABOUT halfway through Tariq Mehmood’s While There is Light, the impression that the novel may simply be yet another crass attempt to cash in on the multicultural renaissance Britain is currently...
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Review: Faith and practice
 THE events of September 11, 2001 have created an enormous interest in the western world towards understanding the religion of Islam and the Muslims — particularly in the Middle East. This...
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Review: It’s not laziness, sir
 SELF-HELP books induce a terrible feeling of lassitude. It seems such an effort, somehow, all that improving. And books that propose to help my children have an even more deadening effect,...
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Review: What war will bring
 THIS recently released 104-page report tells the story of the cost of conflict between India and Pakistan in words and graphs. Released by the Strategic Foresight Group based in Mumbai, India,...
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Review: Mission Iraq
 AS tragedy unravels in Iraq, the perfidious claims made by the Bush administration and its apologists of fighting a ‘just war’ come undone. While President Bush believes that he is ‘carrying...
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In brief
A LAYMAN’S Jewish history would begin with the Exodus and end with Captivity, with the reigns of David and Solomon as its high point. Jezebel would be the personification of evil, although her only fault was that she retained her pagan belief even after marrying the King of Israel....
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Review: Breaking the code
 NOT only was Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code an international bestseller and one of the most controversial fictional books released in a long time, it also was a must-read in...
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