Contested Coastlines: Fisherfolk, Nations and Borders in South Asia By Charu Gupta & Mukul Sharma Routledge Pp251; Price Indian Rs 650 Interesting addition to
30 December, 2011 07:20:00
Women in Islam and the Middle EastEdited by Ruth RodedIB Tauris 2008 Pp293 Much of the lively and often heated debate on the role of ...
10 February, 2012 02:15:00
Pakistan: A Personal HistoryBy Imran KhanBantam Press; Pp 390This is a timely publication as it comes when Imran Khan is making a Zip-Zap Zoom of ...
29 December, 2011 02:45:00
Tracking the Media: Interpretations of Mass Media Discourses in India and PakistanBy Subarno Chattarji; Routledge India, 2009; Pp335.The book, as the title tells blandly, examines ...
27 December, 2011 09:00:00
Sectarian War: Pakistan’s Sunni-Shia Violence and Its Links to the Middle EastBy Khaled AhmedOxford University Press. PP 369 Veteran Pakistani journalist, Khaled Ahmed traces the growth ...
20 December, 2011 08:45:00
Edited by Christophe Jaffrelot. (New Delhi: Manohar, 2002). ISBN 81-7304-407-4. Price Rs 650 (US$13). 352 pages.The book gives an account of Pakistan's complicated political mosaic focuses ...
24 September, 2011 11:15:00
Already into its second edition, the book argues that the dotcom bubble, and housing bubble as also Federal Reserve's market ‘manipulation’ and the ‘incredible irresponsibility and bad judgment of the public sector’ have ruined the American economy. It opines that China, India and other emerging markets, while remaining the hotspots of investment for profits, may help buffer the world from the full impact of the U.S.-led recession. ...
12 June, 2011 06:35:00
Title: On nous appelle ‘les Karachi’(MEMOIR)
By Magali Drouet & Sandrine Leclerc Fleure Noir, Paris
ISBN 978-2-265-09220-4 PP253 €17,50;
Title: Le Contract. Karachi, l’affaire que Sarkozy voudrait oublier
(investigative journalism) By Fabrice Arfi & Fabrice Lhomme
Stock, Paris ISBN 978-2-234-06239-9
PP 362 €20,50...
01 April, 2011 06:15:00
There is no gainsaying that each of the three players - US, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have exploited the other for their agenda – India for Pakistan, Soviet Union for the US and holy jihad for the Saudis. Who amongst the three is more selfish, and who has won? The jury is still out...
31 March, 2011 02:40:00
One feature that makes the book interesting is the desperate effort of the British secret services to touch up the image of London and Washington's firm belief that the CIA need n't “to bolster a fading British presence”. The British believed passionately that the US was very much in need of their expertise and they were frustrated when ‘not taken seriously by the US’...
