September 26, 2004
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Musical chairs of another kind
 POLITICAL neutrality is fast becoming a rare element... various civil service unions are given to maintaining close contacts with political parties. The political parties themselves also find it convenient to make their presence felt among such unions....
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EXCERPTS: Why have a governor?
 SOMNATH had been chief minister of Uttar Pradesh ever since Kailas’ fortuitous removal to Delhi. The chief ministership was more important and more powerful than a cabinet post or a post abroad. At least he preferred it. He felt relaxed and sure of himself. The days when he had clenched his fist or raised his voice to make a point were over....
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ARTICLE: The Man Booker shortlist
 ON Sept 21, the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize for 2004 was announced. This award represents the very best of contemporary fiction. It is considered to be the ultimate accolade...
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AUTHOR: Discourse of dissent
 NADEEM Aslam is a slight, slim and courteous man, with a mop of dark hair and trendy clothes — jeans, sneakers, bright T-shirts — but has this rather shy, lost air,...
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AUTHOR: Political to the core
 WHEN she visited Pakistan recently with her scholar husband Prof Mushirul Hasan, Dr Zoya Hasan was projected as the co-author of Unequal Citizens (OUP). A sociological study of Muslim women in...
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REVIEW: Back to basics — thank God for it
 MUCH contemporary English writing by young Pakistani authors, or that in any case which I have reviewed, has this heaviness about it, this hankering almost to forcibly articulate an angst-ridden, predominantly...
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REVIEW: The great divide
 IT would appear that India’s modern politics has been characterized by two main trends from the beginning — Hindu communalism and liberal secularism. Modern politics started from the three “presidency” towns,...
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REVIEW: Burying the hatchet
 MOST people in Pakistan and India had the nagging fear that a cricket series between the two countries and that too on the subcontinental soil would have a disastrous effect on...
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REVIEW: Past oppressing the present
 MUCH of the Islamic world is resource rich, has been under western domination for most of its modern history, and is struggling to come to terms with a seemingly unjust international...
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REVIEW: Phoenix rising
 FARAH Diba grew up on Firdausi’s Shahnameh thus imbibing the great poet’s belief that “the greatness of Iran is closely linked to the permanence of the monarchy, and to (its) renaissance...
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REVIEW: Before the barbarians
 THIS wide-ranging and challenging book is much better than its title (it could hardly be worse). I have to concede, though, that its subject is not easily encapsulated in a few...
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REVIEW: Exploring the contradictions
 ACCORDING to Jawaharlal Nehru in The Discovery of India, India is a cultural unity amidst diversity and a bundle of contradictions held together by strong but invisible threads....
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