July 24, 2005
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Neither horse nor cool water
 he sons of Jhelum tell stories regarding the name of their town and the river that give their district its name. The favourite among these, and also the most widely believed, is that Jhelum was the name of a horse owned by that most celebrated of all classical warrior kings,...
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EXCERPTS: Out of a fairytale
 She was renowned for her fabulous loveliness. She looked like a fairy who had just stepped out of a fairytale. Raja Mohammad Amir Ahmad Khan of Mahmudabad states: “M.A. Jinnah had very close relations with our family since his youth....
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EXCERPTS: Tinsel magic
 Mahatma Gandhi, the champion of Indian swadeshi and non-violent nationalism, and Charlie Chaplin, the comic extraordinaire of the silent cinema, two of the unlikeliest souls, met in London in 1931. In spite of certain socialist similarities between them,...
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ARTICLE: The war of the verses
 EVEN though the memory of the past century evokes a sense of loss and regret and we feel that the century has slipped irretrievably out of our hands but our memories are fragrant with some reminiscences of the century....
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AUTHOR: David Maine – Flooded with ideas
 Written from the perspective of a person who goes behind the facade of events and emotions, Lahore-based author David Maine’s first publication, The Flood, takes the reader through the Biblical journey of Noah’s ark and the deluge that follows....
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AUTHOR: Lesley Blanch – Time traveler
 First published half a century ago, when its author turned 50, The Wilder Shores of Love has been in print ever since. If you recognize the title but have never read...
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REVIEWS: A Lahori banquet
 Journalism offers an outlet to the most variegated forms of expression, reflecting diverse world views and personal idiosyncrasies. Regular columnists acquire reputations as opinion makers or gadflies or analysts to be taken seriously....
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REVIEWS: Lessons to be learned
 Based upon his experience and long association with education, Krishan Kumar India’s National Council of Educational Research and Training director has written this book with remarkable conviction....
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REVIEWS: A real bad sense of timing
 There is a general impression that the government quarters of both India and Pakistan are inching towards a resolution of the long pending basic issues between the two countries....
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REVIEWS: Beyond the call centre
 This needs saying at the outset. In itself, it might seem like an unremarkable fact, but it actually is not: Amartya Sen is a citizen of India....
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REVIEWS: Saddam and after
 This is the book to read when one wants to make sense of the turmoil in Iraq. Rageh Omaar, the author of the book, was BBC Television’s reporter in Iraq for six years prior to the conflict of 2003....
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REVIEWS: A sense of belonging
 Pinpricking the event of migration and the cultural complexity that transpired as a consequence, Sarah Ansari’s extensively researched book, Life after Partition: Migration, Community and Strife in Sindh 1947-1962 investigates the community and identity crisis in Sindh before and after partition....
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In brief
So does kicking myself now, after reading it, nullify any good karma I may have generated then? You see, wishing to follow Buddhism’s noble eightfold path, especially its precepts of right thought and right action, I turned down the chance to see this play in Mumbai,...
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The romantic Turk
 In the beginning there is death, says the narrator in this witty, spinning novel where afterwards as a reader you become so enthralled by life and love in 20th century Turkey that you want to stay up all night hearing these stories....
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REVIEWS: The rise and fall
 This is a translation of the book, The Conference of Books, a collection of articles and essays originally written in English. They were based on dialogues with Muslims and non-Muslims....
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In brief
 The book offers a comprehensive, candid and well-documented account of the army’s elite Special Service Group (SSG). It is about the only work written in chaste Urdu by an army officer based on painstaking research....
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