September 11, 2005
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Peace is the way
 The prime minister of India, Atal Behari Vajpayee, boards a bus at Amritsar and heads towards Wagah on the India-Pakistan border. Thousands and thousands of Indians gather...
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EXCERPTS: From the sublime to...
 Q: After you left Lail-o-Nihar you joined Mashriq, and possibly your association with the paper began at its commencement. What gave rise to the issue of Mashriq...
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ARTICLE: Black day for the blue pencil
 Has editing had its day? A Dutch publisher recently described to me how a British author had sent her the first draft of his new book. Though a great admirer of his work...
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ARTICLE: When Sadequain wove magic
 Everybody knows Sadequain as a celebrated artist, but very few are aware that he had a streak of poetry in him too, which lasted for four months....
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AUTHOR: A living presence
 In all honesty, this should have been a review, but it has inadvertently ended up being an obituary. It is hard to accept the fact that Dr Aftab Ahmed...
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REVIEWS: Societies that implode
 Jared Diamond, the author, identifies eight categories of causes through which the past societies have undermined themselves by damaging their environments...
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REVIEWS: Jhelum: the district reincarnated
 From being a rather small town district headquarter at the time of partition, to developing into a densely populated, sprawling micro polis-like freak of the original...
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REVIEWS: Stay awhile and browse
 Have you ever wondered what the 10 most-kept boys’ names were in the US in the 1920’s? Or has the difference between a French horn and a tuba always confused you...
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In brief
 Written by Joan Pagano, who has been serving as a personal trainer to countless people in New York for the past 16 years, Strength Training for Women...
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REVIEWS: Creating a new enemy
 Coming in the wake of 9/11, the Madrid blasts and Bali carnage, the London bombings, now abbreviated to 7/7, have given a new dimension to the US-led war on terror...
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REVIEWS: Divine intervention
 The Gods of Glass is Madan M. Sauldie’s first work of fiction. He is the author of Ethiopia: Dawn of the Red Star (1983) and Super Powers in the Horn of Africa (1987)...
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REVIEWS: A spasmodic discourse
 Islam calls for uncompromising social equality of all humanity. Race, colour, caste and ethnic origin have no value in Islamic understanding of things...
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REVIEWS: Style and substance alike
 Mirza Ghalib, whose lines, writer-journalist-broadcaster Raza Ali Abidi quotes profusely in his writings (both the ones meant for publication as also those penned...
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In brief
 This is probably the first book about bonsai in Pakistan in any language. Written in the style of a textbook it deals with the various dwarfing techniques...
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