November 14, 2004
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When they went to school
 I met Dr Qurat ul Ain Bakhteari on February 24, 2003 in Quetta. There was snow on the barren mountains walling Quetta City but the wind was not as freezing cold as I had imagined it would be....
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EXCERPTS: Come cast your vote
 Experience rules
Indian politicians are an aging lot. The average age of MPs elected from 1952 to 2004 has gone up from 46.5 to 52.2. The average age of MPs in the thirteenth Lok Sabha was 55.5....
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ARTICLES: And now it is economics
 A number of economics books that are now being written focus on management and culture change, marking the transition from an over-regulated and mixed economy towards a free market. A...
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ARTICLE: Poetry of human grief
 The things I write about are mainly religious or metaphysical — I’m concerned with relations between humans, time and eternity at the odd points where they meet and illuminate each other,...
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AUTHOR: Saad Ashraf: An open book
 Back in 1997 Saad Ashraf, then retiring as senior joint secretary with the government, wrote in a sentimental piece entitled “The last day in office” for Dawn Magazine: “Retirement from service...
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REVIEWS: Debating options on Kashmir
 “We have declared that the fate of Kashmir is ultimately to be decided by the people. That pledge we have given, and the Maharajah has supported it, not only to the...
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REVIEWS: Drab dramatics
Hanif Kureishi’s writing skills are as multifarious as Peter Weir’s cinematic talent. It sounds a bit hackneyed but not many would dispute the fact that his screenplays, novels, short stories, essays...
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REVIEWS: Getting to know the ‘Bard’
 The Age of Shakespeare is a big literary scholar’s attempt to give us the ‘Bard’ in his true context, literary, cultural and political — and, above all, in terms of the...
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REVIEWS: Old wives’ tales
 A goldfish bowl full of water, we know, has a distorting effect on its inhabitants. The convex glass means that at one moment the twinkly fish circling the bowl seem minuscule,...
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REVIEWS: Who built the first library?
 The study of library history and its related disciplines bears witness to the fact that the instinct to preserve, the passion to collect and the desire to serve humanity have been...
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REVIEWS: Our sweetest songs were those
 Unlike in the West, almost all films produced in the subcontinent are ‘musicals’, and the songs, if they are melodious, add to the attraction of the movie. But the songs’ appeal...
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REVIEWS: Who is next in line?
 George Friedman says that the US is winning the war on terror and that the war in Iraq is part of this war. Friedman is the founder of Stratfor, a firm...
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REVIEWS: Writer personified
 Nisar Aziz Butt is a unique writer who has made the Urdu novel her forte in an age where very few good novels are published. I remember reading Nai Chiraghe Nai...
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IN BRIEF
In his foreword, Mr Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid has emphasized the role of the two sisters, Mrs G.A. Wahab and Mrs H.A. Hakam, who faced trials and tribulations in the post-partition period in Calcutta and then in former East Pakistan during the traumatic days of 1970-71....
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