January 15, 2006
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Forewarned is forearmed
 This book brings together the latest trends, facts and analysis of contemporary crises — whether ‘natural’ or human-made, quick-onset or chronic. It calls on agencies to focus less on gathering information...
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EXCERPTS: Snakes and other anecdotes
 This book is full of hair-raising true stories about the author’s experiences with people and animals in Bush Betta, the wildlife resort that he set up in 1991 in Mangala valley...
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AUTHORS: Received wisdom
 Ethan Casey is a veteran journalist who has written for the Canadian national newspaper The Globe and Mail, the South China Morning Post of Hong Kong, and many other publications....
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AUTHORS: Her share of ink
 A daughter rises. She is a determined daughter and a surprise star at her father’s centenary celebrations. From Allahabad and Delhi to Karachi and Lahore, a series of discussions and...
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ARTICLE: When we were heroes
 “Oh yes, I remember going to see ‘Kes’,” said my cousin, Gary Hollingworth, 49, ex-miner turned social worker and South Yorkshire....
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REVIEWS: Gandhi’s still alive in Gujarat
 In Gandhi’s hometown, Gujarat, three years after the religious violence, the Muslim community is still squandering for justice and freedom from fear of Hindu retaliation. The pogrom that left 110,000 Muslims...
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REVIEWS: Almost invincible
Napoleon Bonaparte, a prominent figure in the 18th and 19th centuries and in world history, was the general of the French revolution. He was the ruler and the emperor of France...
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REVIEWS: Transcending boundaries
 Satellite television or rather transnational television caught Asia unawares as much as it has the world over. It is said that....
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REVIEWS: Crisis in the health sector
 AT A time when the health sector in Pakistan is in a state of crisis and the government is not clear about the policy it should follow, the question which comes...
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REVIEWS: Rise and fall
 These are research manuals systematically organized and prepared by the IUCN — the World Conservation Union — and supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)....
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In brief
 John Berendt, author of the international best-seller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, turns away from Savannah, Georgia, and focuses instead on the lives of Venetians in his latest...
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REVIEWS: Water of life
 The Final Settlement, published by the Mumbai-based Strategic Foresight Group of the International Centre for Peace Initiatives, deals with issues....
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REVIEWS: Minority report
 The book is a collection of nine articles by Mehboob Sada that plead the case of the minorities for their rightful place in the social matrix of Pakistan....
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In brief
An intellectual approach to life not only satisfies the creative will. It also risks many things. It exposes the thinker to the adversities of knowledge, requiring him to keep an open mind...
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