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The Raj Lives: India In Nepal

Umesh Verma   May 7, 2008   interacts: 28

Six decades after the British withdrew from the subcontinent, it takes considerable audacity to produce a book titled “The Raj

Harold and Kumar Escape From Gitmo

Ras Siddiqui   Apr 25, 2008   interacts: 34

This time the duo attempts to explain the difference between a Bong and a Bomb aboard an airplane to Amsterdam

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.

My Top Ten Novels by Desi Writers

Asif Naqshbandi   Feb 13, 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 4, 2008   interacts: 49

Combining real facts with anecdotes and colourful characters that symbolise the new India, INDIA CHALO written by Brij Raj Singh,

A History of the Pakistan Army by Brian Cloughley

Agha Amin   Jan 31, 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

Charlie Wilson's War Stretches the Imagination

Ras Siddiqui   Jan 13, 2008   interacts: 44

How does a US Congressman learn about helping the Afghan resistance to the Soviet Empire in 1980? By listening to

Movie Review: The Kite Runner

Ras Siddiqui   Jan 8, 2008   interacts: 28

Khalid Hosseini, like many Afghan’s is a poet at heart. Here with the assistance of screenwriter David Benioff, the essence

Wise And Otherwise, A Salute to Life By Sudha Murthy

Lokhi Menon   Dec 21, 2007   interacts: 4

A generous glimpse into a life well lead by Sudha Murthy.

Fire in The Blood by Irene Nemirovsky

kavita kasturi   Dec 19, 2007   interacts: 0

It is the Mill on the Floss of the 21st century, calling out to be read by the fire on a winter evening, what it

Why the American War on Terror is Failing Miserably

Bhaskar Dasgupta   Nov 18, 2007   interacts: 250

USA's counter terrorism effort in the Global War against Terror is frankly creating more terrorists than it is stopping.

Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema

Mayank AustenSoofi   Nov 17, 2007   interacts: 20

His skin color is not fair; his acting skills are too loud; he is less muscled than neighborhood gym boys; and he is rumored to

Book Review – Searching for Sister Pakistan

Mayank AustenSoofi   Nov 12, 2007   interacts: 1

Editor Rakshanda Jalil writes ... My concern in this book has been to present as complete a picture of the

Sumera Jawad: The Excavated Linearity

Nadeem Alam   Nov 12, 2007   interacts: 1

Sumera, through her brush, tries to explore the true image of contemporary woman by exhuming the historical representation of the South Asian woman.

Fair Game

Mohammad Gill   Nov 2, 2007   interacts: 20

Review of "My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House" By Valerie Plame Wilson

Little Mosque on the Prairie Enters Second Season

Ras Siddiqui   Oct 22, 2007   interacts: 4

The “Us and Them” between the mainstream and Muslims is highlighted in this comedy. Issues such as dating, barriers inside

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