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The genial genius IN many a treatise on literature and psychoanalysis one central question concerning the sources of creative inspiration has often been raised....		More about marketing THE holy month of Ramazan concluded with Eid festivities last week. The pious, in order to feel the pangs of hunger and starvation of the poor and the deprived, fasted (abstained from eating and drinking) from dawn to dusk daily for the entire month....
Virtual reality ANY medium through which we communicate a message to other people is a channel between the sender and the receiver of that particular message. A single channel — such as the...		The price of marrying twice RABIA was divorced at the age of 30. To look after her three small children, she began to teach in a school. Two years later she remarried. Her friends pushed her...
Taming lady luck WEBSTER’S new collegiate dictionary defines luck as “a force that brings good fortune or adversity; the events or circumstances that operate for or against all individuals”. The key words in the...		Now you’re talking It was inevitable. With a fast-growing market and four service providers trying to out muscle each other in this highly competitive market, it was inevitable that the number of mobile phone users would surpass that of fix-line phone users in the country....
Alternative energy Today’s world is heavily dependent on energy from fossil fuels such as coal, oil, gasoline and uranium. That’s all fine since the wheels of global economy are dependent on these fuels....		A Cambodian odyssey Amid the ruins of war, poverty and hunger lie, hidden in the South-East Asian jungles, the magnificent complex of Angkor Wat ...
DIARY OF A VAGABOND: A tear on the cheek of eternity We were on our way to the Taj Mahal. The suburbs of New Delhi stretched on and on and it took us almost one hour to manoeuvre through them. We stopped...		What a mess! Soon after he took charge of the country, General Pervez Musharraf appointed Dr Mahmood Chaudhry as Health Minister of Punjab and General Ahsan Ahmed, Health Minister of Sindh....
HOT SEAT Former General Manager PTV and currently Director PTV, Athar Waqar Azeem claims that movies and music have become his companions in life. Says he, “When a person is alone, these two...		The evil of drugs TAKING drugs can be extremely injurious to health. It ruins the very existence of a man. Drugs undermine sustainable human development and can result in an increase in criminal activities....
CHAPTER FROM HISTORY: A fateful day “For heaven’s sake, what has happened to you?” exclaimed Sophie, the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand as she saw blood trickling down from her husband’s mouth. “Sophie dear, don’t die, for...		POINT OF VIEW: A blend of modernism and classicism THAT Ahmad Mushtaq is a better poet than Firaq Gorakhpuri was a judgment given by Shamasurrahman Farooqi. It was provocative enough for Ahmad Mushtaq’s contemporary poets, more particularly for those in...
Pakistan goes Down Under Despite their dramatic defeat at the hands of the Indians, in the final Test in Mumbai, the beaming faces of the Aussie players at the end of the series’ ceremonies, said it all....		THROUGH THE COVERS: An impressive performance DEW or no dew, the Pakistani victory at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata was heart-warming. For a side that is still learning the ropes, it takes a lot to perform creditably...
A monumental task WHEN Pakistan last played Australia in a Test series, way back in October 2002, Waqar Younis was in-charge of these no-hopers in what was supposed to be a ‘home’ series in...		Indian designs DIGITAL advertising, denizens at our embassy in Washington DC, conjectured, could well open up magic casements upon Pakistan’s dead sea afloat with foreign investors in a state of coma....
Don’t forget to laugh IT would be surprising to know that in some countries there are laughter clubs where people gather to laugh their heads off....		NEWSMAKER As many people expected, President Bush has made Condoleezza Rice the new US Secretary of State, America’s “face to the world” as he called her when he announced his decision....