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History as a farce This is a working paper series presenting preliminary research emerging from the transversal theme of decentralisation and social movements...		EXCERPTS: Here comes trouble In pursuance of a suggestion by my old banker friend, I decided to visit my property at Tarrowmore, near Carlingford Lough on the borders of the two provinces...
ARTICLES: Above the storms Akhtar Husain Jaafri (1932-1992) is less known to common readers but is regarded highly as a poet in the world of literature. Working silently throughout his literary career....		ARTICLES: A pacifist turned novelist One. Somerset Maugham, a highly readable fiction writer, had an interesting opinion to express in his work Ten Great Novels and their Writers: he said that while Honoré...
AUTHORS: The law lord The bookstore owner waited for midnight. Then he would do something he’d never done before. He checked his watch, for the fourth time. It was still 11:40pm....		AUTHORS: Dreams are mirrors Those who know Ali Ahmad Minai are surprised he has taken this long to write a book. Endowed with a gifted, fertile mind, Ali has prolific powers of expression....
REVIEWS: Voices from another world AS unique as the land and its history, socio-political intricacies, traditions and the eventual jigsaw puzzle carved out by its destiny in very recent times...		REVIEWS: The trouble with torture THE subject of torture forms an important discourse in international law. Condemned by international lawyers and jurists the world over, the practice continues unabated....
REVIEWS: Communication made easy MAKING an effective presentation is critical especially for people associated with trade, commerce and industry. Hard work and commitment is necessary for any job...		REVIEWS: Bridging the digital divide CECILIA Ng, a visiting associate professor at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, and Swasti Mitter, an international consultant on Information and Communication Technologies...
REVIEWS: A bloody trail As a communist turned right-winger and the founder of the Hezb-i-Islami who served western interests while he fought a holy war against Soviet troops during the ‘80s....		In brief “WE all have two bodies. I want to talk about the one we only see sometimes, as a reminder of some sort, but rarely ever feel. Striped, polka dotted, floral, tinted or toned...
REVIEWS: Tantalising glimpses JUST months before he died in November 1984, Faiz Ahmed Faiz addressed the Asia Study Group in Islamabad. The topic was his own life, and he spoke extempore....		REVIEWS: Stories of a different kind IN journalistic parlance, Sabih Mohsin is an “insider”. By spending a major part of his life in the dark, dingy corridors of Radio Pakistan (the Karachi station certainly...