Articles with tag: books
The Global Self-Help Addict
Saima Shah Jun 17, 2008 interacts: 18Self 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: 44The 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.
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...
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.
