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Book: Veronica Decides to Die

gullu gullu   Dec 1, 2002   interacts: 0

A brilliant book that deals with conformity, madness and death. What is madness anyways. A little bit of it is all of us. It just

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.

Women's Image and Imagery

Emma Alam   Aug 22, 2007   interacts: 2

Sumera Jawad has excavated with her brush, the buried history by unveiling the “image” of women.

Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema

Mayank AustenSoofi   Nov 17, 2007   interacts: 20

His skin color is not fair; his acting skills are too loud; he is less muscled than neighborhood gym boys; and he is rumored to

Movie: The Matrix Reloaded

Zeeshan Mahmud   Jun 18, 2003   interacts: 4

William Gibson, Grant Morrison, Manga, PK Dick and more for the lazy American movie goer.

Movie: Veer Savarkar

Anil S Arora   Nov 30, 2001   interacts: 0

many aspects and personalities of the freedom movement, whose memory had been swept under the carpet, are now being gradually resurrected on the national scene

Movie: Swades

Farzana Versey   Dec 31, 2004   interacts: 11

The patriotism of a film like Swades is worse than the jingoism we see around us. For, it posits one kind of Indian against another.

Dracula: A Toothless Tirade

Rubnoazz Bashyr   Sep 18, 2004   interacts: 8

A review of the currently running drama at the NIC Building Islamabad - Dracula

War of Independence or the Great Mutiny

Bhaskar Dasgupta   Sep 30, 2007   interacts: 30

A review of William Dalrymple's book, The Last Mughal

Book: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals` Abuse of Science

Mohammad Gill   Jun 18, 2003   interacts: 25

The authors explain their objective for writing the book under review as follows...

Book: After Terror

Bina Shah   Aug 7, 2005   interacts: 1

Twenty-eight essays from the world`s leading thinkers on the alternative to terrorism

Michel Houellebecq: France's New Literary "Enfant Terrible" and Islamophobe

Asif Naqshbandi   Aug 2, 2007   interacts: 26

Reviews of "Atomised", "Platform" and "The Possibility of an Island".

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

Movie: Pinjar

Naveen Qayyum   Aug 11, 2004   interacts: 6

Pinjar not only presents a purely human account of partition but also makes a very apt political critique on our history with a moving womens

The Fertility Debate

Aisha Sarwari   May 12, 2006   interacts: 35

The role of women in determining their fertility is also a factor of politics and power established by the clerical

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.

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