May 15, 2005
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Social concerns
 The need for a Saarc social charter was first articulated by the Group of Eminent Persons (Geps) who had been appointed at the 9th Saarc summit in 1996 to evaluate and...
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EXCERPTS: Tradesmen of Bareilly
 Sometime during the second decade of the 19th century, Robert Glyn, magistrate and judge of the district of Bareilly, commissioned one Ghulam Yahya “to write the true details of some of...
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EXCERPTS: Bo kaata
 Faced with unexpectedly stiff resistance from the Pakistan Army, the Indian offensive launched on September 6, 1965 in the Lahore-Kasur
sector had floundered badly.
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ARTICLE: Don’t let the fire die
 Majeed Amjad born in 1914 in Jhang, Majeed Amjad is, undeniably, one of the most prominent forerunners of modern Urdu poetry. Shamefully ignored as a poet in his lifetime, leading a...
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ARTICLE: Books are for ever
“Predicting the death of the book industry since the invention of the gramophone
has not been something unusual. Every time a new invention comes along like the
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ARTICLE: Making time to read
 “I don’t want to say that books are to me what eyes are to a blind man. I would rather say that books provide vision to a literate man with sight,”...
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AUTHOR: So beautifully blunt
 The literary world in Vietnam is, to Western eyes, topsy-turvy. “Before the French arrived in the middle of the 19th century the Vietnamese were poets and didn’t particularly write prose,” novelist...
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REVIEWS: Guiding lights
 Spiritual leader and Islamic scholar Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri
has recently published The Thoughtful Guide to Islam and The Thoughtful Guide to
Sufism, books
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REVIEWS: In sync with nature
 The most recent of Ruskin Bond’s myriad of books also seems to be the most unique. The Book of Nature from this famous, many award winning fiction writer strikes a different...
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REVIEWS: What women experienced
 This book contains essays and short accounts by women who witnessed partition in 1947. We have many publications on this period, two notable ones being Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side of...
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REVIEWS: Mystic reverberations
 Abdurrahman popularly known as Rahman Baba (1650-1715) is an all time great Pushto Sufi poet, who is popular to this day. He lived in the age of the Mughal king Aurangzeb...
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REVIEWS: Hands in glove
 To the meagre knowledgeable literature on the role of the army and the judiciary by a Pakistani author, Syed Sami
Ahmad’s book makes a valuable and refreshingly lucid
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REVIEWS: The piecing together of peace
 In April 2004 the UPM’s Centre for International Studies held a seminar on “India — Pakistan Relations in Pursuit of Peace” in Mumbai. This book incorporates well-written papers presented by 14...
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IN BRIEF: The Art of the Mussulmans in Spain
Eminent Professor Shahid Suhrawardy’s famous 1931 lecture series on Islamic Art in Spain has just been published in book format under the title The Art of the Mussulmans in Spain...
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REVIEWS: Bring me sunshine
 All painters stare at the sun, which for them, as the dying Turner said, is God. Matisse, however, seemed to monopolize its light; as Picasso said, he had the sun in...
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REVIEWS: The art of the novel
 Let me begin this piece by being overly trite: novel is perhaps the most significant literary genre of the last one hundred years, and may continue to garner readers’ interest in...
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