November 28, 2004
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Not hungry for power
 BY 10:30 am on May 13, the verdict was out. Millions of rupees spent on a sleek campaign, the plank of India Shining, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee factor — all were demolished....
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EXCERPTS: A softer image
 THE Muslim world is undoubtedly in the throes of crisis and the Muslim masses in general and the Muslim intellectuals in particular are deeply concerned about it....
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AUTHOR: A poet apart
 “GHALIB was futuristic, Momin was inclined to the past. And in contrast to the two, Zauq looked to the present only,” says Dr Muhammad Hassan, a renowned Urdu critic....
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AUTHOR: Altruism at its best
 MY earliest recollection of Jameel Mazhari is on the staircase in our home. He stood there with his finger on his lips, asking my elder brother whether a common relative was...
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ARTICLE: The family is back
 IT has been 30 years and publishers are hoping the Corleones still pique our interest as Mark Winegardner retells the story of the Corleone family in a sequel, The Godfather Returns....
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ARTICLE: A day in August 1947
 YOU asked me to tell you what happened at the Jalandhar railway station in 1947. What can I say? To put it briefly, it was an opportunity to escape from life’s prison, but it too came to nothing....
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REVIEW: Stories from the barracks
 THIS recently published book by Hassan Abbas is Pakistan’s Tom Clancey. Written in a flowing prose, this is a narrative about the link between the mullah, the military and America and...
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REVIEW: Time to make peace
 TRANSFORMING Cultures of Conflict, a collection of papers read at a seminar arranged by Rozan, seems to call a truce in the age-old scuffle between the fair and the unfair sex....
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REVIEW: Cobbler becomes a marshal
 SOLDIERS enjoy writing about themselves because their profession of violence cannot but be exciting. The diplomat’s work, on the other hand, with its understatement and avoidance of zeal, is prosaic. It...
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REVIEW: The first shall be last
 THERE is something disturbing about an author who confesses in his introduction that he had to be persuaded to write the ensuing book. It would be natural to expect writers to...
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REVIEW: Mountain rat or avatar?
 THE cult of the Maratha warrior-king, Shivaji, has excited the Hindu imagination in India over the past three centuries like no other hero. Folklore, woven with romanticism of a most nostalgic...
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REVIEW: Come to your own conclusions
 IN the build-up to the recent US election, a plethora of books were released expressing the Bush and the anti-Bush viewpoints. Then, counter-books were published refuting some of these individual opinion...
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REVIEW: The Mughal phenomenon
 IN modern history, nothing perhaps depicts the rise and fall of dynasties better than does the line of Mughal emperors who ruled the subcontinent for well over three centuries, from 1526...
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Strange and familiar
 IT is when the familiar begins to take on the shades of the unexpected and uncanny that you come to realize that you are in the midst of one of Mansha...
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