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Sunday, July 1, 2012
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COVER STORY: Up for sale
PEOPLE can come and hear Senate or House Committee hearings/deliberations in Washington but they have to queue up to be…
NON-FICTION: Debating Islam from within
PLURALISM in our times is framed exclusively as a political question. The central question for political theorists, such as James…
COMMENT: I want to forget Jaun Elia
MEMORIES play strange games with us. Those that hurt us, stay with us for a long time, if not forever.…
INTERVIEW/QUIZ: talkingbooks
I. A. Rehman is a human-rights activist. He is the secretary-general of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
What are…
FICTION: In war, music, love and betrayal
JAZZ music is all about passion and possibility. In her riveting second novel, Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan incorporates the…
EXCERPT: Landscape expressions in Islamic culture
The following excerpt is taken from the chapter “Gardens of the Deccan”
Gardens of medieval Islam — called Turco-Iranian Hispano-Arab…
COLUMN: Humour and satire — a means to an end
There is a branch of poetry known to the Urdu world as mazahiya shairi, humorous poetry. But this branch of…
