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Music: Afternoon Ragas

Asif Naqshbandi   Apr 24, 2003   interacts: 0

The best classical Hindustani instrumental music I have ever had the joy to listen to. Perfect. It is said that 'With this raga (Bhimpalsri) you

Book: Lolita

Asif Naqshbandi   Apr 17, 2003   interacts: 43

Nabokov`s controversial yet mesmerizing story about pedophilia contains astonishing use of the English language and savage humor.

Book: Pakistan`s Green Pioneers

Zalan Alam   Mar 28, 2003   interacts: 3

"Create islands of peace in this sea of turmoil and one day they will come together"

Akhtar Hameed Khan

Book: The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America`s Military

Mohammad Gill   Mar 24, 2003   interacts: 2

Dana Priest`s new book, The Mission, is the hottest cake in the market and the political circles.

Book: The Broken God: (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens --Pt.I)

Asif Naqshbandi   Mar 11, 2003   interacts: 2

This mind-expanding first novel in the A Requiem for Homo Sapiens trilogy combines space opera, lyrical prose and interstellar mathematics to brilliant effect to produce

Music: Kalam Pir Sayyid Mihr Ali Shah (rahmatullah alayhi)

Asif Naqshbandi   Mar 7, 2003   interacts: 0

This contains a number of famous naats in PUNJABI by Hazrat Pir Sahib, one of the greatest Sufi saints of the Punjab and an accomplished

Book: Antwone Fisher: Who will cry for the litte boy

gullu gullu   Feb 27, 2003   interacts: 3

A nice book of some down to earth poems which elegantly get to the bottom of things. I am not really a poetry person but

Book: From South Asia to North America

Ras Siddiqui   Feb 23, 2003   interacts: 3

Born on an April day during the year 1915 in the Old City of Delhi to the second wife of his father, the author grew

Music: Music of the Rivers

Aamir Ansari   Feb 18, 2003   interacts: 0

One of the Soundscapes series, transmuting nature into music.

Book: Gandhi`s Passion

Umair Raja   Feb 8, 2003   interacts: 28

In this brilliantly researched book, Wolpert starts his description of Gandhi as someone having, "often contradictory behavior." He ends it by calling Gandhi, "the greatest

World Trade Organization

Muhammad A Butt   Feb 5, 2003   interacts: 20

In the past few years we have witnessed global protests against WTO policies

Music: Qasida al Burda (The Poem of the Cloak)

Asif Naqshbandi   Jan 31, 2003   interacts: 0

This poem became legendary even in the author`s lifetime and is now without doubt the most famous laudatory poem in the Muslim world in praise

Movie: The Isle

Shahab Riazi   Jan 23, 2003   interacts: 1

A shocking and sometimes extremely violent portrayal of a mute operator of a retreat (hideaway) for men who takes brutal revenge on her contumelious guests,

Movie: Yeh Dil Aap Ka Hua

aaisha khan   Jan 19, 2003   interacts: 4

The only decent Pakistani flick in recent times, with its due share of the flak.

Music: Asma ul Husna

Asif Naqshbandi   Jan 17, 2003   interacts: 0

A spiritually uplifting and beautiful collection of famous naats in Arabic rendered by a singer with the voice of an angel!

Book: The Indus Saga and the Making of Pakistan

Umair Raja   Jan 14, 2003   interacts: 90

This book is a must-read for all Pakistanis who want to explore a line of argument, different from the standard Two Nation Theory arguments, on

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