Articles with tag: book
A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan by Farzana Versey
Murtaza Shibli Jul 7, 2008 interacts: 220It (Indian Muslim) happens to be my identity. And this book is about the identity question in large measure - my identity, the Pakistani identities.
The Global Self-Help Addict
Saima Shah Jun 17, 2008 interacts: 19Self help is the hallmark of the global professional. Words that inspire, soothe, comfort and motivate are powerful and popular forces of support in an everchanging workplace.
Logotherapy: Humanism In Psychiatry
Mutaal Mooquin May 21, 2008 interacts: 45The heart has reasons that reason does not know ... A reflection on Victor Frankl’s “The Unheard Cry for Meaning”
The Irreverent Hero Islam Forgot
William Dalrymple Mar 19, 2008 interacts: 388The Adventures of Hamza is the Iliad and Odyssey of the mediaeval Persianate world: a rollicking, magic-filled heroic saga, full of myth and imagination.
Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa Agha on Pakistan Military
AliHasan Cemendtaur Mar 2, 2008 interacts: 22Stay out of politics, it is good for you, good for us, Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa Agha advises Pakistan Military.
My Top Ten Novels by Desi Writers
Asif Naqshbandi Feb 12, 2008 interacts: 34I am a prose stylist and all my choices reflect this bias.
India Chalo - An Anecdotal Look at the Indian Economy
Nadeem Hood Feb 1, 2008 interacts: 49Combining real facts with anecdotes and colourful characters that symbolise the new India, INDIA CHALO written by Brij Raj Singh, is a passionate look at India and its opportunities .
A History of the Pakistan Army by Brian Cloughley
Agha Amin Jan 19, 2008 interacts: 268Brian Cloughley has made an honest attempt to present things as they are or as he perceived them to be with whatever facts he could lay hands to.
Hyderabad’s Rare Book Seller
Ayub Khan Jan 18, 2008 interacts: 29Described by a writer in Anthropology Today as “one of the few antiquarian book shops in India” the book store itself is the size of a large closet.
I thick therefore I am
Ibrahim M Khalil Dec 1, 2007 interacts: 23I wanted to show off my intellect by writing a piece on current situation of Pakistan but decided against it.
Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema
Mayank AustenSoofi Nov 16, 2007 interacts: 20His skin color is not fair; his acting skills are too loud; he is less muscled than neighborhood gym boys; and he is rumored to be gay! How did this Khan become a Sultan?
On disowning Bhagat Singh and Other Vagaries
AliHasan Cemendtaur Oct 26, 2007 interacts: 48“Zia Ul Haq ordered to destroy all Hindi and Gurmukhi books of the library. The books were thrown in a nala (sewage channel) that ran by the library.”
A Writer's People and earlier works of V.S. Naipaul
William Dalrymple Sep 19, 2007 interacts: 26Naipaul was once a penetrating and unpredictable literary critic, but here criticism has been reduced to a series of spikey provocations.
Dev Anand - Romancing Life at 83
Shantanu Dutta Sep 16, 2007 interacts: 12The launch of Dev Anand's autobiography Romancing with Life is being done by no less than PM Manmohan Singh.
Why should the West Monopolize and Hijack Philosophy?
V S Gopalakrishnan Sep 17, 2007 interacts: 7The trouble with western books on philosophy is that they seldom cover Oriental philosophies.
Review of the Book: FREAKONOMICS
V S Gopalakrishnan Sep 9, 2007 interacts: 7Mercifully the sub-title of the book is “A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”.
Independence Thinker
William Dalrymple Aug 18, 2007 interacts: 357Gandhi is one of the most written about individuals in modern history... But recently his status has been somewhat eroded.
Book Dropper
Ibrahim M Khalil Aug 11, 2007 interacts: 9Nicholas Nassim Taleb says there are two ways to look at your bookshelf. The books you have read and consider yourself well read or...
The Secret Is: Don’t Worry, Buy Happy
Saima Shah Apr 5, 2007 interacts: 16Then mankind became a bit smarter and said no god. But that meant more and more people would ask questions and not do as they are told. So mankind had to be taught to believe in god again and ignore the really difficult questions of why we kill, why there
Double-Click for Lit
Mariam Shoaib Feb 6, 2007 interacts: 6a bookworm-now-blogger’s view on the digitization of literature
In the Line of Fire, A Review
Nauman Sadiq Jan 9, 2007 interacts: 58Musharraf can legitimately be titled as a ’benevolent despot’. He does not possess exceptional intellectual abilities but at least his basic premises are correct. He is a moderate, progressive, forward-looking, intelligent, humorous, frank and
Which Islam?
Mohammad Gill Nov 24, 2006 interacts: 252Although many of us despise the western style secularism, western science and philosophy, western democracy, and modernity, we do not have any reasonable and pragmatic substitutes for them. The result is an intellectual schism.
Pervez Musharraf Vs. George Orwell
Aisha Sarwari Oct 12, 2006 interacts: 148It wasn’t that simple though, I noticed that Pervez Musharraf steers clear from George Orwell’s most cautioned malaise – Lack of Clarity.
Banning O Level Urdu Textbook
Syed Ali Jul 25, 2006 interacts: 16The federal education ministry has approached the British Council to withdraw this book from O level syllabus as it is said to contain some derogatory remarks against local people.
Urdu Ghazal After 1980
Anwar u Haque Jun 29, 2006 interacts: 7The book covers the life and works of those ghazal poets who became prominent between 1980 and 2001.The book comprises of 39 poets and it has historical value on several grounds.
Great Expectations, Little Sense
Mujtaba Hamid Feb 28, 2006 interacts: 7When books are written to primarily sell, it’s no wonder that we end up confounded. The case studies presented are mostly those of successful, large organizations, which may be irrelevant to the vast majority of readers
The Leveling of America
Saima Shah Dec 14, 2005 interacts: 630Friedman shows us how the world became flat and isolates ten flatteners of the world. The flatteners range from computer technology to changing political ideology.
Book: The Smoking Issue
Nadeem F Paracha Aug 1, 2005 interacts: 6A blistering attack against those who want to ban smoking in all public places.
Book: The Red Carpet
Uma K Aug 13, 2005`The Red Carpet`, thankfully, is not just another marketing phenomenon. This slim volume of eight short stories set in Bangalore is not only a fast and easy read, it is also refreshingly unpretentious.
Book: The World Is Flat
V S Gopalakrishnan Sep 9, 2005 interacts: 1Firstly, it is indeed not correct to call the world flat. Nearly three billion persons in the world are severely deprived of basic essentials to life.
Book: First Proof The Penguin Book of New Writing from India
Uma K Aug 10, 2005 interacts: 4A collection of stories, essays, excerpts, and a graphic short from known and unknown writers - the non-fiction is better than the fiction part...
Husain Haqqani calls for Pakistan’s Acceptance of Global Realities
Ras Siddiqui Aug 15, 2005 interacts: 22From the interview with the author of Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military
Book: After Terror
Bina Shah Jul 23, 2005 interacts: 1Twenty-eight essays from the world`s leading thinkers on the alternative to terrorism
Book: Governance and the Sclerosis that Has Set In
Revathy Gopal Apr 21, 2005 interacts: 1When a man like Arun Shourie writes for the hundredth time on the failure of the system, is he writing for our amusement, to make us angry, to push and prod us into changing the way things work?
Book: The Abu Ghraib Investigations
Zainab Mahmood Jun 14, 2005 interacts: 1The in depth and at times non-committal account of Independent Panel and Pentagon investigations begins with the words, the photographs did not lie.
Book: Lucky Girls
Bina Shah Apr 29, 2005 interacts: 1Young American writer Nell Freudenberger created a buzz several years ago when her short story Lucky Girls earned her a $500,000 offer for a book that hadnt even been written yet.
Book: Half a Life
Uma K Apr 7, 2005 interacts: 2V. S. Naipauls Half a Life is a disappointment. The story of the half-caste protagonist appears as aimless as his peregrinations across three continents.
Second-hand? Yes. Second-best? No
Sunil K Poolani May 8, 2005 interacts: 6In a stretch of about two kilometres — on which educated, Shakespeare-quoting street vendors have hawked books for the past 20-30 years — around 200,000 books are up for grabs. Every day.
Book: The Buddha of Suburbia
Mohammad Gill Jan 3, 2005 interacts: 14In Kureishi, the line between sex and pornography is rather thin, which seems to be growing ever thinner and thinner. He started as a pornography writer impersonating himself as a French female. Nothing succeeds like success (or sex)...
Book: OPEN SECRETS - India`s Intelligence Unveiled
Veeresh Malik Apr 4, 2005 interacts: 4marks that important crossroads for an independent and confident Nation in literary non-fiction
Book: The Kite Runner
Batool Ali Feb 13, 2005The Kite runner is a book that subtly exposes what our history books conceal and does so in a personal, very emotional way that makes for mesmerizing reading.
Two Score and Ten
Asif Naqshbandi Feb 11, 2005 interacts: 26Books that have somehow changed my life...
Book: A Slice Of Life
Sunil K Poolani Jan 28, 2005The book is a must-read for both journalism students and aficionados.
Book: A Beggar At the Gate
Bina Shah Dec 26, 2004 interacts: 5The second in the trilogy about Sufism and love in India.
Book: Intimacy
Mohammad Gill Dec 23, 2004His life is made complex by his desire to be loved and cared for by his wife, Susan, and his attraction for his girl friend, Nina....
Book: Maximum City - Bombay Lost and Found
Harish Nambiar Dec 23, 2004 interacts: 3A sensational debut, and simply mandatory reading for those who salaam Bombay.
Book: Transmission
Bina Shah Dec 7, 2004 interacts: 2Hari Kunzru`s sophomore novel is a slick mix of technology and culture, the epitome of "geek-lit".
Book: Crescent
Zainab Mahmood Oct 10, 2004 interacts: 2This novel has love, cultural conflict, search for identity and a sense of belonging set against the tumultuous world of middle-eastern immigrants and the streets of LA.
How that Other Democracy (India) Differs
Veeresh Malik Oct 15, 2004 interacts: 70As America goes to vote on a largely bi-polar election, it would be of interest to try to understand how that other democracy, India, differs.
A Passion for Reading
Zainab Mahmood Oct 9, 2004 interacts: 23With the number of galleries that have emerged and a throng of art lovers lining the halls, we can rest assured the same would happen if we were to create such a place for avid book readers who crave a literary environment.
Book: The Sari Shop
Zainab Mahmood Sep 4, 2004 interacts: 2Romanticising the ordinary, Rupa Bajwa paints a picture and gives us a close yet somewhat coloured look into the complicated lives of simple people.
Book: A New Christianity for a New World
Mohammad Gill Aug 22, 2004 interacts: 1He has, many a time, come close to the borderline and hesitated to overstep into non-belief, agnosticism, or even atheism;...
Book: Purdah to Parliament
Yasser Latif Hamdani Aug 11, 2004 interacts: 2Women in the Pakistan Movement
The 786 Cybercaf on Tariq Road (continued)
Bina Shah Jul 28, 2004 interacts: 19Karachi in the 1990s was a wasteland of failed opportunities; the salaried class was on its knees under the burden of heavy government taxes, and the only people who could afford to set up franchises and industries were the already super-rich, super-corru
Book: Muhammad (sal Allahu `alayhi wa sallam): His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
Asif Naqshbandi Aug 7, 2003 interacts: 16This great work has won many prizes from all over the Muslim world for being the best biography of the Prophet in English including from the government of Pakistan.
Book: Chaand Pukhraj Ka
Tehseen Baweja May 30, 2004Chaand Pukhraj Ka, is an innovation in urdu poetry that blends imagination with rhythms and feelings.
Book: Conversations With God - An Uncommon Dialogue
Xoheb Sheikh Jun 29, 2004What if you could talk WITH God, rather than talking TO Him? It happened to one man...
Book: The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women`s Rights in Islam
Mohammad Gill Jun 24, 2004 interacts: 4When I finished writing this book I had come to understand one thing: if women`s rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Koran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with
Book: Pilgrim
Quartulain Siddiqui Nov 15, 2003 interacts: 3And he said: all things are forever. Nothing shall be that has not been.
Book: Death in Venice
Asif Naqshbandi Mar 30, 2004 interacts: 7Thomas Mann`s masterpiece, exploring the relationship between the artist, art and beauty.
Book: Devotional Islam and Politics in British India
Asif Naqshbandi Apr 23, 2004 interacts: 1The best available study to date in the English language on the life, work, and politics of the great Sunni scholar, mujaddid and Sufi saint.
Book: Against All Enemies: Inside America`s War on Terror
Mohammad Gill Apr 12, 2004 interacts: 6Okay, Dick, Condi said, "you`re the crisis manager, what do you recommend." She and I had discussed what we would do if and when another terrorist attack hit....
Book: An Equal Music
Asif Naqshbandi Mar 15, 2004 interacts: 2Love, longing, Schubert and Beethoven in London, Vienna and Venice!
Mainstream Textbooks and What They Teach
Omar R Quraishi Mar 13, 2004 interacts: 43Doesn’t the ministry of education and its curriculum wing have a responsibility to ensure that students in the country’s mainstream primary and secondary system of education have exposure to good books, to material that makes them think.
Book: Why I Am A Muslim: An American Odyssey
Rashid Mughal Mar 5, 2004Part memoir, part guide, Why I Am A Muslim presents Islam as it is seldom seen on the evening news.
Book: The Body
Samina Wahid Feb 8, 2004 interacts: 4Hanif Kureishi ... An old writer decides to spice things up a little bit.
Book: Ya Khuda
Syed Ali Jan 31, 2004 interacts: 5A vivid journey into the morass of Partition and Pandeamonium that ensued.
Book: Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Asif Naqshbandi Nov 10, 2003 interacts: 2The magnum opus from the author of `Lolita`, Ada is his other great love story and the supreme work from the master prose stylist.
Book: The Meme Machine
Mohammad Gill Dec 25, 2003 interacts: 4....meme is so ubiquitous; it shows up at all the unlikely places, In fact the world is full of memes...
Book: A Mighty Heart
Bina Shah Dec 10, 2003 interacts: 19It is a contribution to what Danny named as his life`s purpose: creating a dialogue between civilizations through his journalism.
Book: Brick Lane
Bina Shah Nov 21, 2003 interacts: 44A panoramic view of the Bengali community as seen through the eyes of Nazneen, a young woman from a village who moves to London after her marriage at the age of eighteen
Book: Islam under Siege
Mohammad Gill Nov 9, 2003 interacts: 9There will be a time when your religion will be like a hot piece of coal in the palm of your hand; you will not be able to hold it.
Book: Samarkand
Rozaiba Oct 26, 2003 interacts: 7Time may have progressed, yet the struggles never cease
Book: Dude, Wheres My Country
Mohammad Gill Oct 19, 2003 interacts: 1..life as we knew it changed for ever..
Book: The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Quartulain Siddiqui Oct 2, 2003My heroism consisted of not letting myself die.
Book: A Corner of A Foriegn Field
Shahab Riazi Sep 30, 2003 interacts: 1Timeline of Cricket in India: An off the field view
Book: The Moghul
Saima Shah Sep 22, 2003 interacts: 16This saga begins with a scene at Agra, where Humayun is trying to keep his empire intact against the everlasting intrigues of his brothers and of the
Afghan lords in India.
Book: Mirza Ghalib - A creative Biography
Mohammad Gill Sep 14, 2003 interacts: 2The book clearly shows the depth and profundity of author`s comprehension of the Urdu idiom and poetic metaphors. She...
A Failed Education
Syed Ali Sep 2, 2003 interacts: 190This country is providing the lowest number of doctorate degree holders in this part of the world. Yet the number of expat Pakistanis going abroad for PHds, have increased dramatically. Pakistani Nationals teaching in overseas universities are increasing.
Book: Islam Under Siege
Zalan Alam Jul 27, 2003 interacts: 6"The 21st century will be the century of Islam. The events of September 11 saw to that."
Book: The Trial of Bhagat Singh, Politics of Justice
Yasser Latif Hamdani Aug 1, 2003 interacts: 6An investigation into the role of the British Government, and the popular independence leaders in the Bhagat Singh Saga.
Book: My Feudal Lord
Asif Naqshbandi Jun 4, 2003 interacts: 19Tehmina Durrani`s autobiographical account of her former life as Mrs. Ghulam Mustafa Khar, one-time Chief Minister of Punjab, where she was mentally and physically abused by her famous and powerful huband.
Book: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals` Abuse of Science
Mohammad Gill Jun 3, 2003 interacts: 25The authors explain their objective for writing the book under review as follows...
Book: Sufi Heirs of The Prophet: The Indian Naqshbandiyya and the Rise of the Mediating Sufi Shaykh
Asif Naqshbandi Apr 30, 2003 interacts: 3A scholarly look at the history of the Naqshbandi Order, especially in the Subcontinent and a case-study of one of the greatest Naqshbandi Saints of the 19/20th century-Hazrat Pir Sayyid Jama`at Ali Shah Alipuri.
Book: The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science
Mohammad Gill Apr 20, 2003 interacts: 34Some years ago, in what must have been one of my (Edis`s) less sane moments, I decided to begin writing a book about science, religion, and philososphy. I found writing it even more rewarding than I anticipated - I learned a lot, and changed my mind on no
Book: Kartography
Umair Raja Apr 27, 2003 interacts: 23It was an unexceptional moment, but, lord how he smiled when he watched me watch a ladybird take flight.
Book: Lolita
Asif Naqshbandi Mar 26, 2003 interacts: 43Nabokov`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 25, 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 16, 2003 interacts: 2Dana 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 9, 2003 interacts: 2This 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 the most original sci-fi novel in years.
Book: Antwone Fisher: Who will cry for the litte boy
gullu gullu Feb 7, 2003 interacts: 3A nice book of some down to earth poems which elegantly get to the bottom of things. I am not really a poetry person but I liked the stuff here.
Book: From South Asia to North America
Ras Siddiqui Feb 17, 2003 interacts: 3Born on an April day during the year 1915 in the Old City of Delhi to the second wife of his father, the author grew up in a house off a street called Gully, Masjid Kalay Khan.
Book: Gandhi`s Passion
Umair Raja Feb 1, 2003 interacts: 28In this brilliantly researched book, Wolpert starts his description of Gandhi as someone having, "often contradictory behavior." He ends it by calling Gandhi, "the greatest Indian since the fifth-century B.C. "Enlightened One," the Buddha." After reading
Book: The Indus Saga and the Making of Pakistan
Umair Raja Jan 13, 2003 interacts: 90This 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 the identity of their nation. It is also a must read for all Indians who are interested in the history of the I
Book: Rendezvous with Rama
Asif Naqshbandi Jan 12, 2003 interacts: 4Quite possibly the most famous novel ever written about Mankind`s first encounter with an alien civilisation and certainly one of the best books of the `grandaddy of science-fiction`.
Book: Life Isn`t All ha ha hee hee
Batool Ali Jan 10, 2003 interacts: 1Set in England, its about the lives of working, single, late-twenty-early-thirty yr old East Indian women.
Book: Twilight in Delhi
Asif Naqshbandi Dec 11, 2002 interacts: 2A social drama-cum-love-story-cum-historical novel set in post 1857 Delhi and centred around the life and loves of a upper middle class Muslim family.
Book: The Life and Work of Jalaluddin Rumi
Asif Naqshbandi Dec 11, 2002 interacts: 3A wonderfully readable yet scholarly examination of the life and works of Rumi, the `greatest mystical poet of mankind` (Nicholson) by a genuine scholar of Rumi and Persian.
Book: Shadow of the Pomegranate Tree
gullu gullu Dec 11, 2002 interacts: 1He kicks to ashes a stack of burnt parchments. Over the embers of one tragedy lurks the shadow of another.
Book: Veronica Decides to Die
gullu gullu Dec 1, 2002A brilliant book that deals with conformity, madness and death. What is madness anyways. A little bit of it is all of us. It just the ones who act on their madness that are labelled are mad!
Book: Pakistan: The Eye of the Storm
Zalan Alam Oct 23, 2002 interacts: 4An up to date look at the history of Pakistan
Book: The Stone Woman
Shaista Khan Sep 18, 2002 interacts: 1It’s a depiction of the clash between the history and the new generation which is deeply hostile to the myths and half-truth of the good old days.
Book: The Cairo trilogy
Harpreet Soorae Feb 11, 2002where respectability is a mirage and desire is repented at the Friday prayers
Book: It was five past midnight in Bhopal
Veeresh Malik Nov 5, 2001This book is not for the weak kneed
Book: American Muslims: the new generation
Bina Shah Oct 21, 2001American Muslims are better Muslims
Book: An American Brat
Yasser Latif Hamdani Jul 27, 2001 interacts: 1A review of Bapsi Sidwah`s work
Book: Interpreter of Maladies
Bina Shah May 26, 2001A review of the Pulitzer prize winning short story collection
Joint Indo-Pak School History Textbook on the Web
Foqia Sadiq Khan and Q Isa Daudpota Sep 26, 2000 interacts: 140A team of historians from South Asia will jointly write a history text suitable for middle and high school students.
Book: White Teeth
Jonathan Ali Jul 13, 2000Dickensian is a description that many reviewers have found apt
Book: MOTH SMOKE
Ras Siddiqui Apr 9, 2000One of the finest novels ever written on the other Pakistan
Book: The Ground Beneath His Feet
Keerthik Sasidharan Sep 26, 1999As with his previous works, Rushdie fiddles around with history
Book: The Sparrow
Tahnoon Pasha Jan 30, 1998 interacts: 1A first contact novel done differently. Little hard Sci-Fi but an engaging plot and very believable characters...hard to put down
Book: The God of Small Things
Tahnoon Pasha Sep 17, 1997Imagine a scream. A scream a young girl screams.... This book is a description of the painting of that scream.
