December 5, 2004
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A wired world
 It’s called “the CNN effect”. And for a time, during and immediately after the Gulf war in 1991, it was associated only with CNN — the effect of live and continuous television coverage of foreign affairs on the conduct of diplomacy and the waging of war....
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EXCERPTS: A sense of language
 The struggle for regional autonomy in the Siraiki speaking areas of south Punjab was initially an administrative demand for greater autonomy and economic rights for the region....
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ARTICLE: Return of the prodigal son
 The Norwegian Nobel Institute announced some time back that the Spanish novel, Don Quixote, written by Miguel Cervantes in the 17th century was selected as the best book of all times....
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ARTICLES: Ismat Chughtai: Unexplored territory
 Tahira Naqvi is the author of two collections of short stories, titled Atar of Roses and Dying in a Strange Country, and an upcoming novel. She is also known for her...
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ARTICLES: Time to get in touch with your inner bear
 Recently, just out of the blue, Bernard, one of my seven-year-old twins, announced flatly: “I don’t like thinking about how the world was created because it makes my brain hurt.” Did...
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REVIEWS: How foreign policy is made
 This book is an interesting analysis of the process and institutions of decision making in shaping India’s foreign policy and the crucial role various prime ministers have played in it since...
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REVIEWS: Can this happen in America?
 In 2001, while reading the historian Arthur Schlesinger’s autobiography, Philip Roth came across a single sentence stating that in 1940 some Republicans wanted to nominate the famous aviator Charles Lindberghh to...
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REVIEWS: Who am I?
A young recruit, in his own estimation “a refined and poetic soul”, is doing sentry duty on his first day outside a two-room post while his four superiors sit inside...
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REVIEWS: I am really special!
 What happens when the rebel has nothing to rebel against? It’s not a question that might result in a so-called “bestseller” read. And definitely not a page-turner autobiography either. Hal Niedzviecki’s...
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REVIEWS: The ifs and buts of existence
 “Should one want to try to become something other than what one is?” Ruth Prawar Jhabvala asked this question in one of her previous novels. In My Nine Lives: Chapters of...
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REVIEWS: Fame and its discontents
 In 1960, Sammy Davis Junior arrived in England with his new fiancee, May Britt, a dazzlingly beautiful Swedish actress. Though he had long since crossed over into the mainstream with the...
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REVIEWS: Believe it or not
 Although mists, forests, thunderstorms, abandoned houses, and cemeteries all feature prominently in this riveting collection of 28 short stories, they reinvent old-fashioned tales of terror in more ways than one. Indian...
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REVIEWS: Political parties of Pakistan
 Governance in Pakistan has remained mainly in the hands of three groups: the politicians, the civil bureaucracy and the military bureaucracy. In fact, except for a few years in the beginning...
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IN BRIEF
 This is a book on violence against women. After an overview of the legal systems in the South Asian region and their relevance to women it contains country studies. The countries covered are India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka....
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