August 12, 2007
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Memories of an empire
 The name Mountbatten is synonymous with the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan. Louis Mountbatten arrived in New Delhi in March 1947, with his wife Edwina...
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EXCERPT: Transfer of power: August 1947
 The date for the transfer of power came around all too quickly. We had only been in India for a little less than five months and the India that we had...
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ARTICLE: Frontiers of knowledge
 The vast body of knowledge that exists today has accumulated over the centuries; it is the treasure-trove of languages and literature, social and natural sciences, religion and philosophy....
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ARTICLE: Trousseau full of books
 “Bloomsbury will soon be publishing the entire Harry Potter set,” I informed my sister. “I am thinking of getting it for my collection.” My sister rolled her eyes....
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REVIEWS: The Black Book of Hollywood Beauty Secrets
 After the first dozen pages, the mind-numbing arrangement of treatments contained in the so-called Black Book of Hollywood Beauty Secrets — apparently compulsory to stay...
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REVIEWS: Embracing the other
 Pakistan’s 60th birthday is likely to unleash an even greater storm of introspection than its golden jubilee milestone, given the prevailing precarious political scenario...
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REVIEWS: Beyond politics
 THE book under review is a collection of edited letters of the late Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, and Dr Karan Singh, the only child of Maharaja...
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REVIEWS: The breaking of the heart
 When India was partitioned, two of its provinces, Punjab and Bengal, were also split up. The Bengali heart still burns because for Bengal the partition was something ‘unnatural’...
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REVIEWS: Money matters
 The book under review is written by Izzu Din Pal, who teaches economics in Pakistan and Canada and had been Adjunct Professor, Centre for Developing Area Studies, McGill University....
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REVIEW: Poetry of delicate sensibility
 Poetry is the first language of mankind. May be it is for this reason alone that it doesn’t lend itself to any logical unravelling. There is a peculiar mystique about it which allows....
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