Articles with tag: books
Author Nafisa Rizvi Talks About "The Blue Room"
Ras Siddiqui Oct 5, 2009 interacts: 9The idea in my book that people who cut themselves off from their roots will bleed is taken from a Pablo Neruda poem which says just this. People in the Diaspora take it literally to mean that they must not blend in with their acquired home.
Behind Closed Doors: Archives and Archiving in Pakistan
Nadeem Tarar Sep 24, 2009 interacts: 5Despite the fact that constitution of Pakistan recognises the access to public information, various laws on the statutory books, such as Official Secret Act of 1923, promote the culture of secrecy.
Secular Spirituality
Khalid Sohail Sep 3, 2009 interacts: 72I have read the descriptions of spiritual experiences in the religious and holy books but this is the first time I read a biological, neurological and secular description of spirituality (Dr Jill Taylor’s book, My Stroke of Insight)
When India Banned Thought
Rakesh Mani Aug 26, 2009 interacts: 177While Singh has shifted ground from supporting a nationalist right-wing party to intellectual liberalism, Jinnah moved from pursuing secular, liberal policies to rallying the masses with hard, communal appeals.
Torrential Fecundity and Pangs of a Voracious Reader
Pramod Khilery Aug 22, 2009Just like a pretty damsel blooms at the prospectus of being the object of desire of eyes that enunciate its love with an affectionate smile a book too yearns to caress the face of its reader through the palms of words and eyes of thoughts.
Jaswant Speaks Out
Ather Naqvi Aug 24, 2009 interacts: 108The controversy over the book written by Jaswant Singh, Jinnah: India–Partition–Independence, in which he has painted Quaid-i-Azam in a positive light, does not seem to be dying down.
Speculations on Female Sexuality and Religion
Abdul Arif Apr 29, 2009 interacts: 53Confronted with an attractive female, compounded by our lust and resulting rejection, is this fear, guilt and anger at what we cannot have possibly manifests itself in our holy books?
The Book Fair Chronicles
Aahirini Romonika Mar 12, 2009 interacts: 6Calcutta. The word holds a magic charm for me- permeates my senses, brings on a sense of belonging, identity and a pride which has nothing to do with the less-than-perfect state of the city.
Post Colonial English Language Writers
William Dalrymple Oct 16, 2008 interacts: 9Post Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist a whole raft of new Pakistani novels are due to appear, all of which have already caused considerable pre-publication stir.
Three Cups of Tea & Pennies for Peace
Ras Siddiqui Oct 9, 2008 interacts: 26In 2000 only about 800,000 children went to school in Afghanistan. Today said Mortenson, 6.4 million kids are in school in that country out of which 2 million are girls.
The Global Self-Help Addict
Saima Shah Jun 17, 2008 interacts: 20Self 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: 24Stay 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: 35I 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.
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: 359Gandhi 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...
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
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
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.
Two Score and Ten
Asif Naqshbandi Feb 11, 2005 interacts: 26Books that have somehow changed my life...
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.
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.
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.
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.
