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Book: Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Asif Naqshbandi   Jan 20, 2004   interacts: 2

The magnum opus from the author of `Lolita`, Ada is his other great love story and the supreme work from the master prose stylist.

Movie: Paheli

Lakshmi Mukundan   Aug 7, 2005   interacts: 13

Puppets on strings MC this movie but who ends up being the puppets, perhaps the audience?

Book: The World Is Flat

V S Gopalakrishnan   Sep 9, 2005   interacts: 1

Firstly, it is indeed not correct to call the world “flat”. Nearly three billion persons in the world are severely deprived of basic essentials to

Book: Mirza Ghalib - A creative Biography

Mohammad Gill   Sep 18, 2003   interacts: 2

The book clearly shows the depth and profundity of author`s comprehension of the Urdu idiom and poetic metaphors. She...

Book: Maximum City - Bombay Lost and Found

Harish Nambiar   Dec 23, 2004   interacts: 3

A sensational debut, and simply mandatory reading for those who salaam Bombay.

Whorrible!

Zafar Anjum   Dec 7, 2004   interacts: 16

The film, part fiction, part documentary, was on the lives of prostitutes and was appropriately called Whore (Yo Puta in Spanish). Yo Puta should have

Book: The GOD Gene

Abdul Arif   Jun 10, 2005   interacts: 0

How faith is hardwired into our genes

Book: The Abu Ghraib Investigations

Zainab Mahmood   Jun 21, 2005   interacts: 1

The in depth and at times non-committal account of Independent Panel and Pentagon investigations begins with the words, “the photographs did not lie”.

Book: Intimacy

Mohammad Gill   Dec 31, 2004   interacts: 0

His life is made complex by his desire to be loved and cared for by his wife, Susan, and his attraction for his girl friend,

Movie: Three Colours: Blue (Trois couleurs: Bleu)

Asif Naqshbandi   Dec 16, 2002   interacts: 2

Kieslowski`s masterful opening chapter of his `Trois couleurs (Three Colours)` trilogy based on the colours of the French flag and the related ideals of liberty,

Standing Alone in Mecca by Asra Q. Nomani

Jawahara Saidullah   Sep 13, 2005   interacts: 168

The journey to Mecca and standing alone at the birthplace of Islam is a running metaphor in Nomani’s book. She is always alone, or so

Khuda Ke Liye

Yasser Latif Hamdani   Jul 30, 2007   interacts: 237

"In the Name of God", it is about us - the people of Pakistan warts and all.

Book: Purdah to Parliament

Yasser Latif Hamdani   Aug 16, 2004   interacts: 2

Women in the Pakistan Movement

Book: Death in Venice

Asif Naqshbandi   May 20, 2004   interacts: 7

Thomas Mann`s masterpiece, exploring the relationship between the artist, art and beauty.

Book: The Smoking Issue

Nadeem F Paracha   Oct 31, 2005   interacts: 6

A blistering attack against those who want to ban smoking in all public places.

Movie: Khwahish

sameena khan   Sep 2, 2003   interacts: 1

Its about `loving, living and losing".

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