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Sunday, June 10, 2012
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COVER STORY: Time’s winged chariot hurrying near
The first couple of dozen pages of Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s novel Beyond Clay and Dust bring to mind the film…
FICTION: In the name of love
THERE is probably more literature devoted to the topic of love than there are holes in all of Switzerland’s cheese…
POETRY: The letters of T. S. Eliot
The mistake of making a statement that can be shown to be factually incorrect is a grave one. I begin…
CROSSWORD/INTERVIEW: talkingbooks
Pirzada Qasim is an Urdu poet and the vice chancellor of Ziauddin University. He previously served as the vice chancellor…
NON-FICTION: Taking it easy
ARE you one of those people who wake up in the morning feeling tired and continue to do so even…
LIT BUZZ: Comic book drawing sells for 1.3 million euros
A rare 1932 cover drawing of a Tintin comic book has been sold for a record 1.3 million euros at…
NON-FICTION: From Russia, with love
During the 20th century, Russia remained isolated from the rest of the world for most of the time due to…
COLUMN: Pioneers of women’s right
The autobiography of the retired chief justice of the Federal Shariat Court, Justice Haziqul Khairi, has been published by Ferozsons…
