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Caught in the middle Miyanwali District in Pakistan is the last district of Punjab, right on the border. It was relatively difficult to make arrangements for the recovery of women in this district. Even before Partition...		EXCERPTS: The vision A collection of Mumtaz Shirin’s short stories that she herself translated into English from the original Urdu. The book has been compiled by Dr Tanzim-ul-Firdous who came across the stories during...
ARTICLE: Unusual suspect Over the past two years I have read or re-read every one of Agatha Christie’s 66 full-length murder mysteries, from The Mysterious Affair of Styles — the very first...		AUTHORS: Preserving links Down to earth and unassuming, Professor Latif Ullah is a reserved and simple man. He shuns publicity and stays away from the limelight. He is the author of five books related...
AUTHORS: The adviser The city of Paris now has its first bridge on the Seine River named after an African poet — Leopold Sedar Senghor. It was inaugurated on the morning of October 12...		REVIEWS: Of war and peace Vinay Lal has covered a wide range of subjects in the new and expanded edition of Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy, from time to politics, governance...
REVIEWS: Challenges of identity This is an intriguing book where the authors have looked at the lives of Muslim women in private and public places in America from a traditional as well as modern perspective....		REVIEWS: The education auction Ivy League universities are to higher education what Louis Vuitton is to fashion. Similarly, contemporary American higher education also has its very own brand names....
REVIEWS: The tragedy of intolerance IRENE Némirovsky, a Russian-born novelist who had lived in France since 1919, was arrested under the race laws on July 11, 1942 and deported to Auschwitz where she died....		REVIEWS: Looking back Mauryan India is the fourth monograph in the People’s History of India series, co-authored by Irfan Habib and Vivekanand Jha. Irfan Habib needs no introduction; Vivekanand Jha...
REVIEWS: Policy alternatives This is a book that attempts to utterly demolish the neo-liberal edifice to smithereens and shake the ground on which the IMF, World Bank and WTO are based. Yet in prescribing policy alternatives....		In brief Danielle Steel has once again written a romance with male protagonists unlike her usual designer-wear-clad damsels in distress characters. Her first male hero appeared in Fine Things...
REVIEWS: Ingenious and baffling things The largest “same name” gathering in the world had the most Mohammads meeting together. A man swallowed a 40.5cm-long sword and then held a sack of potatoes...		REVIEWS: From the confessional Ashfaq Naqvi is a poet, a former teacher, officer, journalist and the son of a police officer who served in the Sindh of 1920-1944, after which he became the inspector-general of Junagarh State....