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Signposts to a police state Recent developments in Pakistan evoke growing concern. Although one could have anticipated the general trends … when Bhutto came to power, the rate of deterioration has been unexpectedly...		AUTHOR: Romance and resistance Anwer Pirzado was an intellectual, journalist, columnist and research scholar, but above all he was a poet. The first piece of poetry he ever composed was in Karachi Jail in 1971....
AUTHOR: New orbits of being THE floor of the room where he was sitting on a wooden chair was lower than the level of the lawn where I was standing. He asked me to jump into the room through the french window...		ARTICLES: Symbols and images Born in 1932, Asad Mohammad Khan has made a noteworthy contribution to Urdu literature, especially modern short fiction. He communicates through symbols and images and his....
ARTICLES: Comma chameleon Eats, Shoots & Leaves presents itself as a last-ditch defence of the subtleties of English punctuation. “Despair was the initial impetus for this book,” writes Lynne Truss...		REVIEWS: Given to extremes THIS chronology of violence and terrorism and profiles of violent and terrorist organisations in five countries of South Asia — Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka — is a voluminous....
REVIEWS: Details, details Francine Prose is the author of 24 books, including 14 novels, five books for children, and four volumes of non-fiction on topics as diverse as Italian Renaissance artist Caravaggio....		REVIEWS: Taking to the field IT is half-time in the new film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait and the screen is filled with a series of seemingly random images from across the world. One of these shows the aftermath....
REVIEWS: What is it like? TO ask what is it like being a Muslim in today’s West won’t really be just a rhetorical question. On the contrary, it’s an empirical exercise to determine how millions of Muslims...		REVIEWS: Unanswered questions SHIRIN Ebadi, the author of Iran Awakening, won the Nobel peace prize in 2003. An Iranian and a lawyer by profession, she takes up human rights cases — some of them free of charge...
REVIEWS: Inside the gulag ALL adventure stories real or imaginary from the Odyssey to Robinson Crusoe, provide excitement. But Enemy Combatant is a different kind of adventure story. It is the spine-chilling...		REVIEWS: Understanding Goa AN ancient Konkani saying goes, “Goa tum Roma Udentichem” meaning “Goa, you are the Rome of the East”. One can only agree. Goa is a haven of beautiful islands and exotic beaches....
REVIEWS: In pursuit Although ‘stalking’ is a relatively new term for many people, accounts of stalkers have abounded throughout history. Stalking, in short, is a pattern of behaviour that involves repeated and continued....		REVIEW: Controversially relevant Josh Malihabadi dominated the Urdu literary scene from the 1930s to the 1980s. The poetry of Josh Malihabadi subsumed under it the Progressive Writers’ Movement...