August 1, 2004
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Aspiring for the White House
 As Kerry returned to the stump in early 2003, President Bush escalated the pressure on Iraq and full-scale war seemed imminent....
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EXCERPTS: Motif connections
 Pakistan is only 57 years old as an independent country, but excavations here have revealed several major ancient cities and their material cultures, which existed on this land thousands of years ago....
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ARTICLES: The loneliness of Shah Latif
 DR ALI Shariati has written an essay whose Urdu translation is titled Ali ki Tanhai. The thought-provoking piece says that Hazrat Ali (RA) was an intellectual of such a high calibre...
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ARTICLES: For the sheer pleasure of it
“I am oblivious of all activity around me while reading a good book,” says Swaleha Shigri, a voracious reader with a ravenous appetite for books that includes anything from the likes...
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ARTICLES: Albanian rhapsodies
 I recently saw a Brazilian film called ‘Behind the Sun’. Deeply dark and stunning the film was based on an Albanian novel, Broken April, by Ismail Kadare. The theme was...
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AUTHOR: Razi Abedi: Man of two languages
 Razi Abedi is working on his autobiography these days. A former chairman of the English department of the Punjab University, he has written bilingually and contributed many critiques and essays on...
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REVIEWS: End of capitalism?
 Wallerstein is known for his theory of “capitalist world-syste”,, which he launched with a book of that name in 1980. The theory, in short, was that, before the 15th century, the...
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REVIEWS: Graphic lessons
 The art of cartooning came to the subcontinent from Britain just over a century ago. While other forms of art had flourished like poetry, painting and sculpture, the art of graphic...
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REVIEWS: Not so equal
 In this book, Neluka Silva writes about how to read South Asian literature while keeping an open eye for the underlying themes that are usually a part of it. The book...
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REVIEWS: Migration and man
 Migration has been a most regularly practised phenomenon in the annals of mankind. In fact, human history on planet earth, as divine revelations suggest, can trace its genesis to Adam and...
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REVIEWS: Identity crisis
 If there is one thing Samuel Huntington has succeeded in achieving in his new book, it is turning the term “immigrant” into an all-out abusive slur. After being termed a racist...
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REVIEWS: This was no dumb blonde
 If half as much had been written about the Israeli-Palestinian crisis as has been written about Marilyn Monroe, then most of the western world would actually know what the Gaza Strip...
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REVIEWS: Flights of fancy
 Allow me a little liberty. If to err is human, and to forgive divine, then to have regrets — well that’s just as human as erring. Regret essentially, and obviously, is...
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REVIEWS: Emotions vs theology
 By the middle of the 20th century, it was generally believed that religion was left with no role to play in the worldly lives of the people. In Europe, the advancement...
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