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Signs of the times It was late afternoon on December 24, 1942. Sultana Begum, who was spending the natal holidays with Zafar, abruptly woke up from her afternoon nap and sat up in bed. She had a rather...		EXCERPTS: Different strokes As a young girl, barely into her teens, Lubna Latif knew she wanted to be an artist. She was born in Quetta in 1949, and the family moved about in Pakistan during her youth...
ARTICLE: Finding her voice Individuals are not alike. All women or all men in a society are not made to have the same mindset, the same attitudes, the same approach towards issues or the same conviction....		ARTICLES: Gift of many nations Well, well, well! What next? Maybe I should have begun with the “Ho-ho-ho” attributed to Santa Claus by popular culture, though I recall a cartoon published during the heyday of Vietnamese...
Inbox I read with interest Asif Farrukhi’s interview of Professor Latif Ullah (Books & Authors, November 19, 2006). For the past 20 years I have been unsuccessfully looking around for someone who could...		AUTHOR: America’s beloved The prose of E.B. White, as manifested in his letters, lopes along sensibly and informatively, like many other people’s, until it delivers an unexpected poetic punch....
REVIEWS: Battle for survival Anees Jillani points out in the book’s introduction that The State of Pakistan’s Children 2005 “has been delayed for quite some time and has remained a lurking item on the things-to-do list.”...		REVIEWS: Welcome to the jungle Jem Poster’s debut novel, 2002’s Courting Shadows, was a revelation. Set in the late-1800s English countryside, that perfect gem of a book captured one man’s stunning blindness....
REVIEWS: Not a bad idea The first person to conceive of intellectual history was, perhaps, Francis Bacon (1561-1626). His contention was that the most valuable form of history is the history of ideas and that ‘history...		REVIEWS: Water in a new vessel The concept of adapting novels into movies is almost as old as cinema itself but the adaptation of movies into novels is rare, almost unheard of, in the subcontinent....
REVIEWS: Art of living The expansion of art in the hectic six decades of Pakistan’s artists and their activities includes the genius and contribution of artists who achieved recognition for a short span of time...		In brief We ask questions all the time. ‘What is nationalism?’, ‘How do spiritual movements spread?’, ‘How do empires rise and fall?’, ‘What makes a great leader?’ and ‘What wins wars?’...
REVIEWS: Pick and choose Dr Mohammad Waseem is an authority on the electoral politics of Pakistan. Besides articles, chapters in books and other writings, he is the only Pakistani scholar to have written a complete....		REVIEW: On the rise Psychologists believe that a child who grows up in a happy environment is generally cooperative, friendly, loyal, emotionally stable and optimistic. He is responsible, confident, honest....