February 24, 2008
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Publishers speak up
 Every book contains a story that has been diligently worked on by the author for several months. But there is also an interesting....
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REVIEW: No man’s land
 Sana Haroon began her research on the ethnography and colonial era history of the Indo-Afghan tribal areas in 2001, when the world....
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REVIEW: Excerpt from the book
 Analysis of social leadership in Pakhtoon tribal communities began with the political anthropologist Frederik Barth’s work, which was groundbreaking....
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REVIEW: Search for truth
 ‘O God! If I worship thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship...
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ARTICLE: The wonderful world of comics
 I started reading comic books when I was a boy of six or seven in the ’60s in Calcutta. My elder brother, who had a decent collection of comic books...
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IN MEMORIAM: Passing of a legend
 Dr Anis Khurshid was a mortal who believed that books can grant a person immortality. Having lived with a love for books, the 84 well-marked chapters...
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REVIEWS: Another perspective
 There are some books that overwhelm you because they present an outlook on history and a recollection of national events in a manner which....
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REVIEWS: A political icon
 The book under review asserts in a nutshell that Benazir Bhutto had expressed her dissatisfaction over the security arrangements provided to her....
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REVIEW: A divided South Asia
 South Asian countries started liberalising their economies unilaterally, or on the dictates of the IMF and World Bank, in the concluding decades....
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