January 2, 2005

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Sailing close to the wind AS the sun of 2004 sinks behind the line where our vision fails us, I sail along languidly on the now rather tranquil sea in the direction where my sailors expect to find the promised land some day....		Nights without lights — II AFFLICTIONS and dilemmas, personal or national, multiply and get out of hand if not taken care of promptly and properly. By the time Field Marshal Ayub Khan transferred his powers to General Yahya Khan it was already too late. General Yahya Khan realized that the root cause of the rebellion in the country...
The drama of inspection I REMEMBER it was in 1992 that I received a shock that I’m still recovering from. Just as I stepped out of my class, a colleague of mine bumped into...		Heal it the Hawaiian way ON a recent trip to America, one of my friends stopped for a week in Hawaii. There she met a guide who, sensing her interest in spiritualism, introduced her to the...
The connection conundrum A MONTH back my family and I had to shift to another city. Moving out generally means packing up everything and loading it on to a truck, saying goodbye to...		The ominous drugs syndrome HE was a 17-year-old, lying half-dead in a corner of Hazoori Bagh. The neglected state of the garden wasn’t nearly as disturbing as the picture of an unconscious lad among a number of other drug users, drifting about the structure....
Online communities ONLINE community means different things to different people. For some, it conjures warm, fuzzy, reassuring images of people chatting and helping each other. For others, it generates dark images of conspiracy,...		Turkish delight “HANGSI MEMLEKET?” (which country are you from?), the cyber cafe owner asked me. “Pakistan,” I said and immediately had an enthusiastic “Pakistan dost” fired back at me. I was standing in a queue at a cyber cafe in Izmit, Turkey, to pay and was not expecting such a response as Pakistanis are not given a lot of respect abroad....
The disfiguring pollutant POISONING has always been one of the most lethal ways of getting rid off a person. History of the world is full of stories that tell us about use of various forms of chemicals by man to kill his fellow man. Many means have been used to kill people; arrows, daggers and swords dipped in poison. Simply poisoning one’s food is also a time tested way. However, news of poisoning of the Ukrainian opposition leader, Viktor Yuschenko had a different twist to it....		Cutting a lonely furrow LAST week I visited an ailing friend who had recently returned from Canada, after having served four and a half years in solitary confinement!...
The dying art LAST month, one read a brief but inspiring news item about a Vietnamese female minstrel, Ha Thi Cau. It was an interesting piece of news, but at the same time one felt depressed after going through it. The news item was interesting in the sense that the woman had preserved a part...		A woman of substance TO be an extraordinary woman in a male-dominated society is no mean feat. History is replete with examples of great women who were ill-treated by their societies. In this regard, two...
Hot Seat RECENTLY he has been awarded Sitara-e-Imtiaz, an honour which has taken more than a lifetime for many people. But then again, it does seem that Moin Akhtar has already devoted a...		A friend of animals THERE are writers who do not depend on any critic to form opinions on their creative work. They prefer to do the job themselves. So, if a writer has this ability...
2004 in perspective IT should have been a much better year, in cricket and hockey at least. After all, Pakistan was hosting the services of two of the games well known names; Englishman Bob Woolmer and Dutchman Roelant Oltmans. But as it turned out, 2004 didn’t produce the golden performances that we had so eagerly been looking forward to....		And now it’s Melbourne BY the time this article is in cold print, the second Test will be over and the inevitable outcome does not seem to be any different from the first one....
More bang for bucks HALF a century in between, the visit that day to the cola factory brings out the fizz and the bubble of chattering schoolgirls shepherded to Lahore’s Gulberg industrial area in a bus monitored by Mother Andrews....		Nightmare of a different kind “GET out of the car,” I spoke through my clenched teeth, glaring at my two daughters sitting stubbornly in the car, and refusing to get out....
The ATM anxiety I GUESS I got off the wrong side of my bed that day. I needed some cash to pay my utility bills and headed for the bank, a brisk three-minute...		A step forward? WITH reference to the lead article A step forward? (November 7), it is our national psyche that any move to change the status quo meets with stiff resistance. It is also...
MOSAIC: Light pollution EVERYONE knows that turning off the lights saves energy — but did you know it can save birds too?...		Newsmaker THE Beckhams — Victoria and David Beckham — marked the end of a turbulent year for them with an absurdly over-the-top event to show the world that they are together and happy. The couple hosted a lavish Christmas party to christen they son, Brooklyn, 5 and Romeo 2, on the grounds of the Beckhams’ Hertfordshire mansion, north of London, which has been dubbed ‘Beckingham Palace’....