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Strength can be weakness CONFLICTS are not always restricted to two parties. At times there are more parties that have an interest in a competitive outcome. By forming an alliance with one or more others,...		Inside Bush’s mind AMERICAN President Geroge W. Bush’s pattern of behaviour and his utterances consisting of outlandish and moot phrases since the September 11 attack, allow us to reconstruct to a reasonable extent the...
On saving the generations A few days ago, our area suffered electricity breakdown. Nothing extraordinary, but after a while all the family members in our house came out in the lawn. The moon was shining...		Diplomatic wives are coming back They had a lost look after they had sent away their wives under instructions from their Foreign Office, but the war was proving to be longer than they had expected. And...
Napoleons in lunatic asylums! I HAD gone ahead of the journalists’ delegation that was to accompany the prime minister, Choudary Mohammad Ali, because I had a gut-instinct that the prime minister’s visit would not...		The philosophy of life WE have weighed the influences of one’s willingness to really appreciate life, in embracing and savouring it by commanding the joys life has to offer. The emotional yearning of one’s soul...
Chummy hubbies Members of the Homo Sapiens species, these primates are also lovingly called “husbands” in common parlance. Hubbies are found in all parts of the world in varying sizes, forms and occupations....		Afghan intellectuals I have seen a hundred gardens turn red with the blood of the innocent....
A challenging rural academic environment WE have entered a new century, a new millennium and perhaps a new era where globalization of society will set new directions for all of us. The changing scenario will provide...		Hamlique Valley THE Hub river forms tiny lakes and pools along its course, the remnants of the run of the river from the last rains. Moving along vast hill escape made up of...
The art of dwarfing trees WHY would anyone try to downsize a perfectly normal healthy growing tree is, or rather was, beyond me....		Riding for a living “They would take us and attach us with a cord to the camels’ back, then they would make them run down a track covered in sand and boarded with large pointed...
The curse of domestic violence AS I put down the teacup on the table, a smile hovered on my lips. The cheese omelette was good. Finished with the front page, I turned to the editorial page...		The name game Talk about Mithadar and Kharadar of Karachi, Hathidar of Shikarpur or Mochigate of Lahore. A similarity can be seen with the Watergate of Washington. Although no gates exist there as such,...
Origins of the Modernist Movement AS World War I went on with more and more poets getting killed and survivors growing increasingly disillusioned, the whole world on which the Georgian imagination rested came to appear unreal....		Controversy over Nobel prize award THE Nobel prize for literature was awarded on Oct 11, this year, to Vidiadhar S. Naipaul — a highly-controversial figure mainly because of his questionable contribution to literature and his open...
CHAPTERS FROM HISTORY: Congress and Muslim-majority provinces IN 1937, the Congress, having become “intoxicated” with its unexpected but spectacular success in the provincial polls early that year, was not content with merely ruling the six Hindu majority provinces....		POINT OF VIEW: Mourning the death of conscience Poetry is perhaps among the most dominant passions in our society. One may even say that poetry in our society is not always written by poets alone. So many others not...
Family that ruled Pakistan cricket Pakistan was granted test status in 1952 and from then onwards for the next 28 years, Hanif Mohammad and his brothers represented the country without a break — a feat which...		Comical charges against Indians THERE has been an active debate going on in relevant circles for the past several years about the discrete racism being practised by the International Cricket Conference. The voices of dissent...
Western media’s ‘Great Game’ Never was a nation’s psyche so totally affected by a single event as that of America’s after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. An...		NEWSMAKER THE tall, long-necked Nigerian, Agbani Darego, was crowned Miss World recently, becoming the first black African to win the title in the 51-year history of the pageant...