February 20, 2005
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Building bridges
 ACROSS South Asia there is, today, a fanatical following for cricket which no other sport has known within these shores. For instance, the main factor that unites Pakistan is the fate of its national cricket team....
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EXCERPTS: Climate change
 ALTHOUGH we do seem to be passing through an era of rapid climate change, perhaps more so than at any other time in the last millennium, one might reasonably ask: will not natural adjustments take care of these changes? Nature is indeed quite resilient and has coped well with natural climate variations in the past....
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ARTICLE: All about vampires in American fiction
 BELIEF in vampires is almost as old as humanity itself. As civilization developed, the belief in vampires developed with it. Even the word vampire has its roots in numerous cultures of the world, such as Dutch and Hungarian Vampir, Polish Wampir, Russian Upyr, etc. Each culture’s concept of the vampire has been unique though....
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AUTHOR: Return of the native
 WHEN a 30 plus delegation of Sindhi writers from India visited Sindh last December, it was a young poet, Vimi Sadarangani, who stole the show. She was often called at the...
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AUTHOR: Passion for Urdu Studies
 “ECLECTIC and somewhat eccentric” is how C.M. Naim defines the aptly named Ambiguities of Heritage, his collection of “fictions and polemics”. He could have been describing himself. Born in Barabanki and...
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Children’s Book Reviews: Especially for students
 THE “Beginners” series by Orient Longman is a goldmine for students as well as for anyone who wants to brush up on a particular topic. Books & Authors selected a sample...
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Children’s Book Reviews: Ethos and valour
 AS charity begins at home, so should sensitization of gender issues at an early age. Wada Kitab Ghar is making a good effort in this regard. Story books published by them,...
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Children’s Book Reviews: Inky business
 THERE seems to have been a spate of children’s books set in the Victorian era these past few years, and Paul Bajoria’s The Printer’s Devil is certainly a worthy addition to...
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REVIEW: Will the turnaround be sustained?
 IN this monograph, the author’s purpose “is to illustrate, document and analyze the directions of Pakistan’s development since 1947, with a greater focus on the period since the 1980s, and especially...
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REVIEW: Preventive wars or preventing peace?
 UNDER the Bush doctrine, the meaning of war has changed from “a matter of last resort” to a unilateral strike at the “enemy”, which could be any state or non-state actor...
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REVIEW: Indian strategic thinking
 A GOOD insight into current Indian strategic thinking is provided in the book Security Beyond Survival, which is a collection of articles written by prominent Indian and other scholars to...
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REVIEW: Never ask a Viking for advice
 IN a remote corner of south west Greenland, a group of abandoned buildings stands at the head of a long, mountain-rimmed fjord. Many are made of deftly hewn stone; there are...
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REVIEW: Quest for Islamic Utopia
 GUY Sorman, a French academic, sociologist and writer, has been on a journey all across the Muslim world in search of a moderate Islam. The Children of Rifaa — In Search...
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REVIEW: Fond memories
 IS writing travel pieces or travelogues no big deal? Or should it be considered as read-worthy only as some fictional pieces based on travelling experiences of either their authors or protagonists? The debate is open. And whatever one might infer or whatever one may think about travel pieces, like them or demean them, they just can’t be ignored....
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