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Articles with tag: books

The Global Self-Help Addict

Saima Shah   Jun 17, 2008   interacts: 18

Self 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: 44

The 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: 388

The 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: 22

Stay 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: 34

I 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: 49

Combining 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: 268

Brian 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: 29

Described 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: 23

I 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: 26

Naipaul 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: 12

The 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: 7

The 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: 7

Mercifully the sub-title of the book is “A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”.

Independence Thinker

William Dalrymple   Aug 18, 2007   interacts: 357

Gandhi 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: 9

Nicholas 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: 58

Musharraf 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: 7

When 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: 6

In 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: 26

Books that have somehow changed my life...

A Passion for Reading

Zainab Mahmood   Oct 9, 2004   interacts: 23

With 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: 43

Doesn’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: 190

This 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: 140

A team of historians from South Asia will jointly write a history text suitable for middle and high school students.

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