June 20, 2004
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Our civilized ancestors
 If Indian school and university history textbooks are anything to go by, the Indus civilization hardly plays a role in the historical consciousness of the nation....
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EXCERPTS: Helping the young help themselves
 As the years went on he began to realize more strongly than ever that education was not enough — it was also highly necessary to provide work, or show avenues of possible development to the students who qualified themselves....
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ARTICLES: In search of Babar
 If Zaheeruddin Mohammad Babar were to be reborn today, he would hate to go to the country of his birthplace, now known as Uzbekistan, which is inhabited by a race called...
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Undiscovered territory
“It is a sad reality that nowadays people think they can substitute the importance of gaining information from books by using the Internet or watching TV,” says Ayesha. “In my opinion...
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AUTHOR: Rudyard Kipling rehabilitated?
 The literary work of Rudyard Kipling, derided as an imperialist and colonialist for years, is drawing much interest once again, nearly a century after many of his short stories and poems were first penned....
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AUTHOR: Thalassa Ali: And the story continues
 She may have been sort of a stranger the last time she was here but this time around Thalassa Ali’s visit to Pakistan and the book she had come here to...
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REVIEWS: Cosmic designs
 Carl Sagan (1934-96), the astronomer, became one of the best known scientists in the United States by virtue of his writings. By the use of popular idiom he conveyed the wonders...
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REVIEWS: All about evil
 In the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “Godfather Death”, a poor man gives his newborn son to Death to rear on the condition that he be raised to be a doctor. When...
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REVIEWS: Eng lit as it is now writ
This perversely titled book is the last volume of Oxford English Literary History and covers paperbacks and the Pill to Waterstone’s and the web. It is a cultural history of the...
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REVIEWS: Learning to teach
 During the course of my long college and university life, only two professors stood out as true mentors. Their teaching practices defied the norms and attempted to reach beyond the boundaries...
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REVIEWS: Of greed and grandiose
 Anumber of critics are of the view that Munshi Premchand is the first professional short story writer of Urdu literature. Bearing in mind the vagueness of the claim, one can take...
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REVIEWS: Spies and friendship
 The Absolute Friends of Le Carre’s nineteenth novel are Ted Mundy and Sasha, two men vastly different in temperament, but similar in their capacity for loyalty and deep love. However if...
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