August 8, 2004
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Feeling for his people
 From the late 1970s onward he seemed to move almost at will between Pakistan and Afghanistan; for himself at any rate the Durand Line had ceased to exist. In the Frontier province he stayed with his sons or daughter or, briefly, in a small house that he had built for himself....
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EXCERPTS: Devil in the triangle
 The problem of evil has baffled many thinkers. Evil is not mere darkness that vanishes when light arrives. In other words, evil does not have a negative existence. This darkness has as positive an existence as light....
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ARTICLES: Activism and literature
“I read because it relaxes and calms me down. I feel inspired and creative while reading a book,” says Raza Naeem who believes he’s a typical Scorpio, always curious to learn...
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AUTHOR: Sahab Qizilbash: Lofty ideas, simple words
 On July 30, an ad inserted by Sahab Qizilbash’s nephews in this newspaper, and a brief news item in a leading Urdu newspaper, informed her friends, readers, and fans of her...
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Holmes of Kolkata
 The series The Adventures of Feluda consists of 35 stories, written by one of the greatest filmmakers of our times, Satyajit Ray. A writer, screenwriter, director, producer, advertising man, illustrator, composer,...
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Magical world
 A multiverse, filled with magids and merlins, is the setting that Diana Wynne Jones uses as the backdrop for her exciting, fantastical tale, The Merlin Conspiracy. If this is the...
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REVIEWS: Will they effect a change?
 Gulmina Bilal’s Women Parliamentarian: Swimming Against the Tide projects the various hindrances that women are facing in the political field in Pakistan. It touches upon the presence of patriarchal society and...
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REVIEWS: Cart full of injustices
Uma Ranganathan is Bombay’s (Mumbai) child, a city child and a restless one. The only daughter of well to do, liberal, parents, she travels freely and frequently between her homeland and...
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REVIEWS: Shop, eat and make merry
In the good old days when travel was an essential part of a proper person’s education there were one or two guide books like Baedecker and the Blue guides which were...
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REVIEWS: Il Duce, new and improved
 Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany 1933-1945, has become the archetype of the brutal dictator. It is not common knowledge, however, that Hitler trod a path created by Benito Mussolini, the despot...
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REVIEWS: Lahore’s benefactor
 The book is one among the Historical Reprints that NCA has very laudably undertaken to launch. This biography of Sir Ganga Ram, as the foreword says, is like a piece of...
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REVIEWS: Small victories
 Studs Terkel’s ‘memory books’, as he dubs them, are exciting expeditions into the deepest core of humanity, venturing far beyond the glib media-generated layer of myths that conceal us from one...
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REVIEWS: More power to the tower
 In 1950, David Astor, the editor of The Observer, invited me to write a series of articles on current architectural issues. I refer to this for two reasons. First, to give...
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REVIEWS: Creator and the life force
 The book under review documents the place of women in Sufi practice in the subcontinent. This is largely uncharted territory and Dr Shemeem Burney Abbas does a commendable job detailing female...
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REVIEWS: Music, not the language
 When you look at the title of the painstakingly produced, hard bound and moderately priced book Urdu Moseeqi, you are likely to be puzzled because there is no genre of music...
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REVIEWS: In defence of Islamic history
 The book under review is an Urdu translation of Justice Ameer Ali’s classical book History of the Saracens which was first published in 1889 from London and widely acclaimed by non-Muslim...
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