October 21, 2007
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More than words
 AT 88, British novelist Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize for literature. She is the oldest writer and only the 11th woman to have won the award in its 106-year....
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AUTHOR: All shades of grey
 ‘I have been writing for as long as I can remember and travelling the world since I was 17. I started off in Japan after getting a scholarship from Kikkoman...
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ARTICLES: The queen who survived
 Thus goes the old rhyme, and truth to tell, Henry’s track record as a husband is far from exemplary. So Catherine Parr, his sixth wife, suffered no frisson of ecstasy...
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ARTICLES: And they live on in our hearts
 Almost all bookaholics have, at one time or another, wished that some of the characters that they have read about actually existed. The reasons can be elaborate....
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ARTICLES: Why I hate bestsellers
 I only own a single copy of one book from the Harry Potter series. This is not to say I haven’t read them all. I also read The Da Vinci Code… five months after....
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REVIEWS: An extraordinary mind
 ‘Fiction is frivolous’ They say. ‘It is not real, and is therefore a lie. Story-telling is a juvenile sport, a superficial form of amusement to occupy...
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REVIEWS: The quest for peace
 Until recently, non-Muslim Pakistanis, known as religious minorities, were somewhat totally out of the national mainstream. Politically they had a separate electoral....
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REVIEWS: Bridging the gap
 Extensive research has been done on the status of women and girls worldwide, yet the state of affairs of the same remains unsatisfactory due to the lack of measures....
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REVIEWS: The storyteller
 The late Ijaz Hussain Batalvi was a multi-dimensional personality — a short story writer, critic, poet, essayist, broadcaster, barrister and a teacher....
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REVIEW: Patna shining
 While in Patna I found myself oscillating between Khuda Bakhsh library and Patna University. But let me first talk about Patna’s newly won reputation in our contemporary....
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