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			<title>Author Arundhati Roy faces prosecution in India over 2010 speech - local media</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 23 19:42:41 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Roy, known for criticizing India's IIOJK policy, is accused of saying that the territory isn't integral to India]]>
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				<![CDATA[The Booker prize-winning author Arundhati Roy faces prosecution in India for a speech about Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) she gave 13 years ago after a top official approved the move, local media reported on Wednesday.

A social activist from IIOJK filed a police complaint in 2010 following speeches by Roy and three others at a conference organised by a rights group, the reports said.

Roy, a fierce critic of India&#39;s policy in IIOJK, is accused of saying at the conference that the disputed Himalayan territory was not an integral part of India.

Under Indian laws, the state government&#39;s permission is needed for prosecution of certain crimes, including hate speech, sedition, and promoting enmity.

Vinai Kumar Saxena, the federally-appointed lieutenant-governor (LG), has allowed Delhi Police to prosecute Roy and Central University of Kashmir professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain under laws relating to promoting enmity, making assertions prejudicial to national integration and causing public mischief, the reports said.

Another professor and a hardline Kashmiri separatist leader named in the complaint have since died.

The reports did not say why Saxena approved the prosecution after 13 years.

Read also:&nbsp;Indian police widen probe into funding of news portal

His office did not respond to calls and emails from Reuters requesting comment.

Roy, 61, won the Booker Prize for fiction in 1997. She is also an outspoken political and rights activist and regularly writes in Indian and foreign publications.

There was no reaction from her to the developments and she could not be reached for comment.

Although the case was registered before Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#39;s nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party government came to power in 2014, the sanction has once again stoked concerns about freedom of speech under Modi&#39;s government.

Opposition leaders and writers came out in support of Roy.

&quot;It is obvious that the LG (and his masters) have no place in their regime for tolerance or forbearance; or for that matter the essentials of democracy,&quot; P. Chidambaram, a senior leader of the main opposition Congress party who was India&#39;s home (interior) minister in 2010, posted on X.



I stand by what I said in 2010 on a speech by Ms Arundhati Roy, the well known writer and journalist

There was no justification then to register a case against her on the charge of sedition

There is no justification now to sanction prosecution against her

The law on sedition&hellip;
&mdash; P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) October 10, 2023



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			<title>‘Rahman’s death irreparable loss to HR cause’</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 21 19:31:46 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Govt urged to posthumously confer Nishan-e-Pakistan on rights activist]]>
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				<![CDATA[In what can be best described as a poignant and befitting eulogy to a man who was an icon of human rights, speakers at a condolence reference paid glowing tributes to Human Rights Activist I. A. Rahman who passed away recently.

The reference was organised virtually by Devcom Pakistan in which Devcom Executive Director Munir Ahmed suggested that they should have tangible memorials in all provinces and human rights study centres at different universities in the name of I. A. Rahman.

&quot;His services are milestones for rights defenders which should be compiled and published in book form,&quot; he urged. 

The panel of constitutional experts and human rights practitioners urged the government to prioritise tabling a bill against torture that has long been pending after the country had signed and ratified the UN Convention against Torture in 2008. They said the present government promise is yet to see the light. 

Speakers also voiced their sentiments about Rahman who was acclaimed internationally as well as nationally for his life long achievements and the tireless struggle for human rights in the country. 

Describing Rahman as a rights defender, peace guru and a seasoned journalist., they stressed that the journey of human rights should continue in the light of I. A. Rahman&rsquo;s thoughts, visions and writings.

I.A. Rahman was a paragon of virtue who advocated peace in the region through bilateral and multilateral advocacy and diplomacy based on human rights, they maintained. He was a firm believer in friendship between the people of Pakistan and India, in particular, to propagate peaceful diplomatic relations between the governments of both countries.

The panel of experts included seasoned politician and former senator Farhatullah Babar, constitutionalist and human rights expert Zafarullah Khan, Devcom-Pakistan Executive Director Munir Ahmed, gender rights expert from Lahore Dr Khushboo Ejaz, human rights and peace activist Sadia Bokhari, visual artist and art teacher Sarwat Kazmi, and political rights activist Zulqarnain Asghar. 

Farhatullah Babar asked the human rights committees of the National Assembly and the Senate to have a joint session in memory of I. A. Rahman where they shall recommend to the government for conferring upon him the highest national award Nishan-e-Pakistan.

He also suggested the human rights organisations to form an alliance and take note of the deteriorating situation of human rights in Pakistan and the region. He said that a couple of universities should have human rights chairs named after Rahman 

&quot;I. A. Rahman was a person who genuinely shared his wisdom with everyone, wrote a lot about every aspect of human rights and democracy, and intentionally kept away from the rulers to maintain his integrity and intent,&quot; Babar said. &quot;He was an inspiration to all those who knew him.&quot; 

Devcom-Pakistan Executive Director Munir Ahmed said his generation had learned everything from the iconic human rights defender, peace guru and seasoned journalist.

&quot;He continued to inspire generations for six decades. To continue the journey of his vision and wisdom, it is very essential to have his articles compiled in a book form, and another book shall be written on his efforts and lifelong struggle to inspire the next generation.&quot;

Zafarullah Khan said I. A. Rahman had started writing on human rights much earlier than the popular rights movement in Pakistan. &quot;He was the initial voice against the non-democratic forces and dictatorial regimes. His writings unfolded the conspiracies against peace in the region that was deliberately disturbed for the vested interests of the non-democratic forces. He believed that people-to-people contact would wipe off ethnic, religious and regional hatred.&quot; 

Dr Khushboo Ejaz described Rahman as a mentor, outspoken rights defender and blunt writer and journalist. &quot;Some universities shall have centres of excellence on human rights and peace named after I. A. Rahman.&quot;

Sadia Bokhari reminisced that Rahman played a mentor to her in her days as a young journalist and groomed her for human rights when she joined the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). &quot;He was a polite, steadfast and simple person with clarity of vision and objectives for his career and life.&quot;

Professional excellence, love for humanity and peace were the goals that he achieved with all passion and dedication, she added. 

Zulqairnain Asghar mentioned that Rahman was the first person who highlighted the rights of persons with disability and consistently wrote and propagated the challenges confronting them.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 18th, 2021.]]>
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			<title>'Ramona and Beezus' author Beverly Cleary passes away at 104</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 21 06:23:03 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Cleary died on Thursday at her home in California where she lived since the 1960s.]]>
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				<![CDATA[American children&#39;s book author Beverly Cleary, who responded to a young reader&#39;s plea for realistic characters by bringing rare insight and humour to the lives of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins and the other children who populated her more than 40 books, has died at age 104, publisher HarperCollins said.

Cleary died on Thursday at her home in Carmel, California, where she had lived since the 1960s, a statement from HarperCollins said. No cause of death was given.

The author said she had aspirations of writing as a sixth grader, but first became a librarian. At a library in Yakima, Washington, a young boy provided the impetus for her writing career when he asked Cleary where he could find books about &quot;kids like us.&quot;

Cleary decided she wanted to write about ordinary &quot;grubby kids,&quot; she told the Los Angeles Times, rather than the English schoolboys and girls who seemed to dominate the plots of children&#39;s literature at the time.

That led to Henry Huggins,&nbsp;her 1950 book about a boy growing up on Klickitat Street in Portland, Oregon, not far from the street where Cleary herself had lived. There would be six books about Henry and his dog, Ribsy, but he would be overshadowed by Ramona Quimby, who started as a supporting character in the Henry books and eventually was celebrated in her own series of eight books.

Ramona was precocious, excitable and brimming with imagination in Ramona the Pest, Beezus and Ramona, Ramona the Brave&nbsp;and other books.

Cleary&#39;s works did not offer heroic tales, lessons in life or grand adventures. Instead, they focused on kids&#39; everyday lives, telling the story with enough humor to keep young readers engaged and ample understanding of how children see the world. She knew what made her readers happy, scared, angry and confused.

Cleary told the New York Times she was fortunate to have strong memories of her own childhood to draw on and that she also used the experiences of her twins - a boy and a girl born in 1955 - for fodder.

&quot;Beverly just beautifully captures the essence of childhood,&quot; best-selling children&#39;s writer Judy Blume told the Times. &quot;We might not all have childhoods like that but there&#39;s still something so universal about it. I think kids will always love those books.&quot;

Cleary&#39;s other works included Ellen Tebbits, Otis Spofford, Lucky Chuck, The Mouse and the Motorcycle&nbsp;and two memoirs - My Own Two Feet and A Girl From Yamhill.&nbsp;Her books sold more than 85 million copies worldwide, HarperCollins said.

&quot;Her timeless books are an affirmation of her everlasting connection to the pleasures, challenges, and triumphs that are part of every childhood,&quot; said Suzanne Murphy, president and publisher of HarperCollins Children&#39;s Books.

In 1995 the city of Portland created the Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden for Children, with statues of Ramona, Henry and Ribsy. A school in the city also is named for Cleary.

Cleary spent her early years on a farm in Yamhill, Oregon, before her family moved to Portland when she was 6. She was not much of a reader until she hit the third grade, she said.

The Library of Congress declared Cleary a &quot;living legend&quot; and in 1984 she won the Newbery Medal, given annually for the most distinguished contribution to US&nbsp;children&#39;s literature, for Dear Mr. Henshaw,&nbsp;a novel about a boy who struggles with his parents&#39; divorce as he corresponds with his favorite author.

Cleary, who wrote her last book in 1999, met her future husband, Clarence Cleary, when she was a student at the University of California. He died in 2004.

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			<title>Hamza Ali Abbasi completes first draft of upcoming book</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 21 07:19:23 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Former actor had previously announced debut as an author]]>
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				<![CDATA[Heartthrob for many and a remarkable actor, Hamza Ali Abbasi is a strong believer, an avid social media user and more so, religiously preemptive. From time to time, he has cut ties with showbiz but lately, it has been for the purpose of writing a book in the name of God.

In this time-frame, The Legend of Maula Jatt actor had spent quality time with family and interacted with Islamic scholars to pen his book. Well the good news is, Abbasi has now completed the first draft of his upcoming write-up.



1st rough draft of the book done Alhamdulillah, All Gratitude is for God only.
&mdash; Hamza Ali Abbasi (@iamhamzaabbasi) March 8, 2021


&quot;First rough draft of the book done, Alhamdulillah. All Gratitude is for God only,&rdquo; he tweeted.



In the process of writing a book....obviously it,ll be about God :-) ...hoping to be done by June 2021 Insha Allah. Will be a little inactive on social media bcz of that.
&mdash; Hamza Ali Abbasi (@iamhamzaabbasi) December 1, 2020


Previously, in December, the Alif star had announced that he will be taking a break from both acting and social media to focus on a project ahead. He tweeted, &ldquo;In the process of writing a book, and obviously it&rsquo;ll be about God, hoping to be done by June 2021, Insha Allah. Will be a little inactive on social media because of that.&rdquo;



I hope his book doesn&#39;t create new controversy because your views, thought process is kinda confusing, and your overall personality seems so confused to me.
&mdash; Minha A. Khan 🇵🇰 (@Minha__Ahmed) March 8, 2021


However, a few followers and fans in response said, &ldquo;I hope the book doesn&#39;t create new controversy because your views, thought process is kind of confusing, and your overall personality seems so confused to me.&rdquo;



Unfortunately, free products are taken for granted. Why not charge the book normally and then you donate the earning if and as you wish. Do donate some copies to libraries for those who cant afford to buy.
&mdash; Hassaan Bokhari (@SHBokhari13) March 8, 2021


Another added to his sub-tweet about the book being free of cost. &ldquo;Unfortunately, free products are taken for granted. Why not charge the book normally and then you donate the earnings if and as you wish. Do donate some copies to libraries for those who can&rsquo;t afford to buy.&rdquo;]]>
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			<title>Kangana Ranaut accused of copyright infringement over upcoming film</title>
			<link>https://tribune.com.pk/story/2280073/kangana-ranaut-accused-of-copyright-infringement-over-upcoming-film</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 21 10:05:37 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Author of 'Didda: The Warrior Queen of Kashmir' has accused Ranuat over her upcoming film on Kashmir's female monarch]]>
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				<![CDATA[Ashish Kaul, the author of Didda: The Warrior Queen of Kashmir, has accused Manikarnika Returns: The Legend Of Didda actor Kangana Ranaut of copyright infringement. The upcoming film&nbsp;is based on the historical Kashmiri queen Didda, who was the first female monarch of the Kashmir Valley.

Earlier today,&nbsp;Ranaut had&nbsp;announced that she was all set to return with a sequel to her&nbsp;2019 film,&nbsp;Manikarnika: The&nbsp;Queen of Jhansi. Titled Manikarnika: The Legend of Didda, the second instalment in what is now going to be a franchise, will chronicle the life of &lsquo;The Cleopatra of Kashmir&rsquo; Didda, who ruled&nbsp;the Valley directly and indirectly for around five decades during the 10th and 11th centuries.&nbsp;

Now, in an interview with&nbsp;The Times of India, Kaul has said, &ldquo;I have the exclusive copyrights to the life story of Didda who was the Princess of Lohar (Poonch), now in Jammu &amp; Kashmir, and the Queen of Kashmir. Is it believable by any stretch of imagination that a story and book are being usurped by a renowned actor-turned-social activist?&rdquo;

Kaul went on to say that Ranaut may counter his allegations by claiming Didda is a historical figure and nobody owns her story. But according to the author, no other historian except him and Kalhana (a 12th century Kashmiri author) has any exclusive information about her.

He went on to express that he feels &ldquo;deeply aghast&rdquo; that somebody like Ranaut, who is &ldquo;aware, knowledgeable, and apparently a nationalist&rdquo; has done such a thing.

&ldquo;She has blatantly violated my sole rights. It is illegal and an absolute violation of the IPR and copyright laws of the same country that she swears by. I find it so brazen and hideous and I am still inclined to believe that Kangana has been misguided,&rdquo; Kaul concluded.

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			<title>Researcher, academic Dr Jamro passes away</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 20 19:27:06 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[He was admitted to Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital after contracting dengue]]>
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				<![CDATA[Researcher and the Sindh department chairperson at the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology Dr Kamal Jamro passed away on Wednesday.

Dr Jamro, 48, was admitted to Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital after he contracted dengue, a few days after he recovered from Covid-19.

According to a duty officer at the hospital, Dr Jamro had high degree fever and had been complaining of nausea for the past four days and was brought to the hospital a day before he died.

&ldquo;He was admitted to the hospital in critical condition and his platelet count was very low,&rdquo; the officer said.

The academic was an authority on folklore studies, having spent his life researching on the subject. He had a PhD in folklore studies and wrote and compiled over two dozen books, centring on themes of the language and traditional culture of Sindh.

&ldquo;He had devoted himself to the research and study of folkloristics and always wished to revive the dying traditions of Sindhi culture,&rdquo; according to Dr Ayoub Shaikh, a writer who was also a close friend of Dr Jamro.

Dr Jamro was born in Gul Mohammad Jamro Village, Khairpur Mirs and acquired early education in his native village. Later, completed his masters in Sindhi at the University of Karachi, following which he joined the varsity&rsquo;s Shah Latif chair as a research officer. He also served as a lecturer at Government Islamia Science College. Besides, Dr Jamro was a senior member of the Sindhi Adab Sangat, an organisation of Sindhi writers and poets.

&ldquo;He strived to achieve perfection in all spheres of life, including academia, research, writing and the preservation of folklore literature, which was his passion,&rdquo; said Aijaz Rahmat Lahashri, a founding member of&nbsp; &lsquo;Sindhi Sughar Log Adab Tanzeem&rsquo; - an association of literati who narrate centuries-old traditions of Sindh in peculiar manner and style, popular in rural areas, as a means to discuss history.]]>
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			<title>Roald Dahl's family apologises for his anti-Semitism</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 20 11:13:10 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Statement released by the author's family says his views caused ‘lasting and understandable hurt’]]>
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				<![CDATA[Famous British novelist Roald Dahl&rsquo;s family apologised for the author&rsquo;s anti-Semitic comments, in a note&nbsp;buried deep on his official website, The Guardian reported.

One of the most influential storytellers of the 20th century, whose books &ndash; including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and The BFG &ndash; have entranced children since the 1960s, died 30 years ago.

However, the beloved author was also an anti-Semite which was apparent in the comments he made in an interview with the New Statesman in 1983, the article states.

&ldquo;There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it&rsquo;s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there&rsquo;s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere,&rdquo; he said during the interview.

Dahl added, &ldquo;Even a stinker like Hitler didn&rsquo;t just pick on them for no reason.&rdquo;

To rectify the situation, his family quietly issued an apology saying, &ldquo;The Dahl family and the Roald Dahl Story Company deeply apologise for the lasting and understandable hurt caused by some of Roald Dahl&rsquo;s statements.&rdquo;

&ldquo;Those prejudiced remarks are incomprehensible to us and stand in marked contrast to the man we knew and to the values at the heart of Roald Dahl&rsquo;s stories, which have positively impacted young people for generations,&rdquo; the family said in a statement.

&ldquo;We hope that, just as he did at his best, at his absolute worst, Roald Dahl can help remind us of the lasting impact of words,&rdquo; the statement read.

No mention is made of Dahl&rsquo;s anti-Semitic views in the author&rsquo;s official biography on the site. The family&rsquo;s apology was not sent to Jewish organisations either.

Born in 1916 in Wales to Norwegian parents, Dahl enlisted himself in British Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. During his war service, he was badly injured when his Gladiator crash-landed in Libya.

Roald Dahl&rsquo;s published his first book The Gremlins shortly after in 1943. This was followed by James and the Giant Peach in 1961, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 1964 and Fantastic Mr Fox in 1970.

He also co-wrote screenplays for the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, as well as writing adult novels.

Due to the popularity of his books, especially among young readers, many of his stories were adapted as films, for television and on the stage.

In 2018, the latest period for which data exists, Dahl&rsquo;s estate posted annual pre-tax profits of &pound;12.7m from television and cinema deals, royalties, fancy-dress costumes and a line of baby toiletries.

As well as his notorious interview with the New Statesman, Dahl later acknowledged his antisemitism in an article in the Independent in 1990. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m certainly anti-Israeli, and I&rsquo;ve become anti-Semitic in as much as that you get a Jewish person in another country like England strongly supporting Zionism. I think they should see both sides,&rdquo; the famed author had said.

&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the same old thing: we all know about Jews and the rest of it. There aren&rsquo;t any non-Jewish publishers anywhere; they control the media &ndash; jolly clever thing to do &ndash; that&rsquo;s why the president of the United States has to sell all this stuff to Israel.&rdquo;

Owing to the concerns about his anti-Semitic views, the Royal Mint dropped plans to celebrate Dahl&rsquo;s life with a commemorative coin two years ago.

Official papers obtained by the Guardian disclosed that the Royal Mint concluded he was &ldquo;not regarded as an author of the highest reputation&rdquo;.]]>
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			<title>‘Mirzapur 2’ at risk of landing in legal trouble</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 20 09:50:40 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[The Hindi crime fiction writer and popular author Surendra Mohan Pathak has claimed that his book, titled Dhabba, has been &ldquo;mischievously misrepresented&rdquo; in the Amazon Prime&rsquo;s series, reported Hindustan Times.

In a letter to the OTT platform, the author has demanded the removal of a sequence from the second installment, failing which he will take legal action.

The author has alleged that a scene shows Kulbhushan Kharbanda (as Satyananad Tripathi) reading Dhabba but the content that he is shown reading is not the &ldquo;original text of Dhabba&rdquo;. Surendra added, &ldquo;On the contrary, what is being read is sheer porno, the undersigned cannot even dream of writing, supposedly to titillate the viewers. But in the process, the whole sequence is shown as an excerpt from my novel Dhabba, which amounts to mischievous misrepresentation.&rdquo;

He further claimed, &ldquo;The object appears to be an attempt to tarnish my image as a celebrated writer of Hindi crime fiction who is ruling the roost since last several decades. The sequence defames me as an author and puts me in bad light as a well-known mystery writer which I am since more than the last five decades.&rdquo;



The writer has threatened legal proceedings against the producers, writers and the actor in the scene, if the sequence is not removed from the series &ldquo;within a week of receipt of the mail&rdquo; where he shared the letter. The letter is dated October 27.

Filmmaker Bobby Singh shared the letter on his Facebook and wrote, &ldquo;The veteran author #SurenderMohanPathak takes action against the misrepresentation of his novel in #Mirzapur2 . Now responsible filmmakers should respond to this responsibly, humbly accepting the mistake made &ndash; Amazon Prime Video excels entertainment.&rdquo;

After a successful first season that won critics&rsquo; as well as audiences&rsquo; hearts, Mirzapur returned last week with season 2 and received mixed reviews.

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			<title>Salmaan Taseer's son loses Indian citizenship for criticising Modi</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 19 08:28:54 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Indian home ministry says Aatish Taseer tried to 'conceal information that his father was of Pakistani origin']]>
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				<![CDATA[Aatish Taseer, British writer-journalist and son of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, has said New Delhi's decision to cancel his overseas Indian citizenship was part of a "sinister plan", reported BBC. 

The move came after Taseer wrote an article for Time magazine criticising Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

According to the Indian home ministry, Taseer tried to “conceal information that his father was of Pakistani origin”.

Salmaan Taseer was assassinated by his bodyguard after he spoke in favour of leniency for Asia Bibi – a Christian woman who was sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy and recently acquitted by the Supreme Court.

Taseer told BBC that he was greatly upset and believed it was "sinister in the way they orchestrated it".

"First they ruined my reputation by getting one of their men to call me a radical Islamist, and then they moved against me after leaking the story to the press," he said.

In India, gods 'flex their muscles' over scarce land 

Taseer said he was holding Indian citizenship documents since 2000 and lived in India between the ages of two and 10, and 26 to 35, adding that he has local bank accounts, a biometric identification number and pays taxes.

"My father's name is on the citizenship document. I had no access to papers proving he is my father because we had no contact and my mother was not living with him," he said.

"If there was any discrepancy they could have asked me to come down to India and help them because they knew I was not acting in bad faith. There was no question of concealing my father: his name is on the document, and I have written about him extensively."

India’s home ministry reported that Taseer "failed to dispute the notice" it had sent him, asking for an explanation for the "lapse" in the information.

"He has clearly not complied with very basic requirements and hidden information," it added.

Taseer took to social media with evidence of an email exchange with the ministry, denying its claims.

&nbsp;
This is untrue. Here is the Consul General’s acknowledgment of my reply. I was given not the full 21 days, but rather 24 hours to reply. I’ve heard nothing from the ministry since. https://t.co/z7OtTaLLeO pic.twitter.com/t3LBWUtkdi

— Aatish Taseer (@AatishTaseer) November 7, 2019
"They have accused me of fraud. They have blacklisted me. I cannot come into India as an ordinary citizen. My grandmother is 90 years old and lives in India and I may never see her again," Taseer told the BBC.]]>
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			<title>A dire conversation with an upcoming author</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 19 09:53:48 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Journalist Maheen Usmani’s 'The Mercurial Mr Bhutto &amp;amp; Other Stories touches upon all relevant subjects]]>
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				<![CDATA[“I don’t like her,” his brown eyes now locked onto Nazia.

“Why my darling? Did she not look after you?”

“She did before but then I woke up.  I was confused.”

The pause stretched between them.  Her nerves were stretched taut like a guitar string.

“What was there to be confused about?”

“It was Billu.  I didn’t understand what she was doing.”

“Was she sleeping?”

“No, she was next to me.  I thought she must have woken up.”

“Yes that’s what must have happened.  Did she disturb you, baba?”

“She didn’t speak.  But she pulled down my pajama, Amma.”

Excerpt from The Mercurial Mr Bhutto &amp; Other Stories, pages 103-104, Maheen Usmani.
The crowd was silent during actor Sarwat Gilani’s narration of journalist Maheen Usmani’s first book, The Mercurial Mr Bhutto &amp; Other Stories. If it was discomfort, shock, empathy, or a culmination of all the audience felt... no one could know for sure.  However, one thing was for sure: Maheen’s stories might be fictional but they touch on very real issues.

[caption id="attachment_1904057" align="alignnone" width="625"] PHOTO: INSTAGRAM/ SARWAT GILANI[/caption]

Adab Fest concluded on Sunday after 12 book launches and 13 sessions, which discussed an array of topics from everything about Islamaphobia in the West to women’s rights, and much more. Maheen’s book launch was no exception to the intriguing list of topics to touch upon.

The title, The Mercurial Mr Bhutto &amp; Other Stories at first might suggest the book is just about the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, but it is just a small part of the debut collection of powerful short stories. Indeed, Maheen sketches an elegantly constructed plot based on Mr Bhutto’s downfall by his handpicked Army Chief Ziaul Haq and the turbulent time that ensued in the country. Except, the story is seen through the eyes of a child.

[caption id="attachment_1904062" align="alignnone" width="625"] PHOTO: TWITTER/ MAHEEN USMAN[/caption]

By the way, what does mercurial mean? Most might know that the word means ‘subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind’.  Whether you agree this is an accurate description of Mr Bhutto or not, the title is tantalising.

Maheen was joined by impressionist and comedian Shafaat Ali, along with surprise guests Sarwat Gilani and husband Fahad Mirza. Sarwat’s outfit was the fashion rage of the session, wearing a crimson sari complete with poetry by Zehra Nigah.  And while the initial banter was light-hearted, the session drew on much more serious notes.

[caption id="attachment_1904063" align="alignnone" width="625"] PHOTO: INSTAGRAM/ SARWAT GILANI[/caption]

As mentioned, Sarwat touched upon the tragic issue of child sex abuse, all too readily brushed under the carpet. Maheen also mentioned during the conversation with the audience that ‘politicians are humans too’ and that Pakistani’s shouldn’t either just ‘love or hate’ political leaders. Meanwhile, Fahad’s narration was short and sweet, but thought-provoking.

As Adab Fest came to a close, co-founder Ameena Saiyid addressed the audience saying the literature festival is ‘a movement to spread peace and harmony through expression.’ It was a great opportunity for upcoming author’s to start social and political discussions through their work.  Maheen’s first published book was no exception.

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			<title>Award-winning French author sparks outrage for saying women over 50 'too old' to love</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 19 05:17:10 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Yann Moix, who is 50 himself, told women’s magazine Marie Claire he was “incapable” of loving a woman his age]]>
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				<![CDATA[A popular French author and presenter has sparked widespread criticism around the world for saying that women over 50 are “too old” to love and “invisible” to him.

Yann Moix, who is 50 himself, told women’s magazine Marie Claire he was “incapable” of loving a woman his age, and preferred dating younger women, especially those of Korean, Chinese and Japanese descent.

“I prefer younger women’s bodies, that’s all. End of. The body of a 25-year-old woman is extraordinary. The body of a woman of 50 is not extraordinary at all,” said Moix, an award-winning author and television host.

“It’s perhaps sad and reductive for the women I go out with but the Asian type is sufficiently rich, large and infinite for me not to be ashamed,” he told the magazine.

Moix’s comments attracted global outrage, particularly on social media, with one 52-year-old journalist posting a now-deleted photo of her backside on social media.

“Voila, the buttocks of a woman aged 52 ... what an imbecile you are, you don’t know what you’re missing,” journalist Colombe Schneck wrote on her Instagram account.

Others posted photos of movie stars aged their 50s, including Halle Berry, Jennifer Aniston and Monica Bellucci, to argue against his claims that older women were not attractive.

Responding to the criticisms, Moix told local radio on Monday that he could not help that he preferred younger women.

“I like who I like and I don’t have to answer to the court of taste,” Moix told RTL radio.

“Fifty-year-old women do not see me either. They have something else to do than to get around a neurotic who writes and reads all day long. It’s not easy to be with me,” he said.

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			<title>'How to Murder Your Husband' author charged with murdering husband</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 18 12:38:20 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Daniel shot at culinary clinic where he worked as an instructor]]>
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				<![CDATA[A 68-year-old, self-published, author has been charged with the murder of her husband, The Guardian reported.

Nancy Crampton Brophy, apart from being the author of a series of novels about love affairs gone wrong wrote a blogspot titled "How to Murder Your Husband" back in 2011.

The piece's introduction reads, “As a romantic suspense writer, I spend a lot of time thinking about murder and, consequently, about police procedure. After all, if the murder is supposed to set me free, I certainly don’t want to spend any time in jail. And let me say clearly for the record, I don’t like jumpsuits and orange isn’t my color.”

She was taken into custody last week on charges of murdering her husband, Daniel Brophy, at the Oregon Culinary Institute (OCI) in June.

Daniel was shot while alone in a kitchen early on June 2 at the OCI - where he worked as a instructor.

'Game of Thrones' author reveals why he kills off so many of his characters

On June 2 she posted on Facebook saying, “I have sad news to relate. My husband and best friend, Chef Dan Brophy was killed yesterday morning. For those of you who are close to me and feel this deserved a phone call, you are right, but I’m struggling to make sense of everything right now.”

In her 2011 blogpost, she had written: “I find it is easier to wish people dead than to actually kill them. I don’t want to worry about blood and brains splattered on my walls. And really, I’m not good at remembering lies. But the thing I know about murder is that every one of us have it in him/her when pushed far enough.”

A local district attorney announced on Friday that the accused is said to stand trial before a grand jury.

Crampton's lawyer, who had previously refused to discuss the case, did not return an email seeking comment.]]>
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			<title>Khalid Hosseini pays tribute to Syrian boy in his next book</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 18 11:11:06 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA['Sea Prayer' will hit shelves on August 30]]>
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				<![CDATA[Best-selling author Khalid Hosseini is all set to release his next book. Titled Sea Prayer, the latest offering from the author pays tribute to Alan Kurdi - the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on the shore in 2015 in Turkey. According to Mumbai Mirror, the book will hit shelves on August 30.

8,500 people lost in Mediterranean since death of Alan Kurdi

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGvWyGYl_1h/?hl=en&amp;taken-by=khosseini

Upon seeing the haunting image of Kurdi, the Afghan-American novelist was compelled to write Sea Prayer. The book speaks of a father's reflection as he watches his son sleeping while making their way across the sea.

[caption id="attachment_1788388" align="alignnone" width="625"] PHOTO; REUTERS[/caption]

Sea Prayer also tells the story of their life in Homs, Syria before the war began. The book displays how the city that they once called home had now turned into a deadly war zone.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl57PO5hI2x/?hl=en&amp;taken-by=khosseini

Speaking of his upcoming release, Hosseini said, "We are living in the midst of a displacement crisis of enormous proportions. Sea Prayer is an attempt to pay tribute to the millions of families, like Kurdi's, who have been splintered and forced from home by war and persecution."

https://www.instagram.com/p/BlZE4jfhUeR/?hl=en&amp;taken-by=khosseini

Review: A pearl that did not shine

Before Sea Prayer, the author had written three famous books namely The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns and And The Mountains Echoed. In 2006, Hosseini was appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador by UNHCR. Publishers of the book, Bloomsbury will be donating a pound to UNHCR for every book sold.

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			<title>Nobel prize winning author VS Naipaul dies aged 85</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 18 03:39:56 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[When I learnt to write I became my own master, British author once said]]>
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				<![CDATA[Trinidad-born British author V.S. Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001, has died at his home in London aged 85, the BBC reported on Saturday.

In defence of VS Naipaul

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, who began writing in the 1950s, won numerous coveted literary awards during his career during which he wrote critically acclaimed novels such as “A House for Mr Biswas”, “In a Free State” and “A Bend in the River”.

In a statement, his wife Nadira Naipaul called him a “giant in all that he achieved” and said he had died surrounded by “those he loved having lived a life which was full of wonderful creativity and endeavour”, the BBC said.

Born in Trinidad in 1932 into an Indian family, Naipaul was raised in relative poverty. He moved to England at 18 after receiving a scholarship to University College, Oxford.

He wrote his first novel while at Oxford, but it was not published. He left the university in 1954 and found a job as a cataloguer in London’s National Portrait Gallery.

British-Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie wins UK's most prestigious literary award for women

His first published novel, "The Mystic Masseur”, written in 1955, was poorly received at first but the following year won the first of his literary awards, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize for young authors.

He received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth in 1989.

“When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day,” he told Reuters in 2010.]]>
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			<title>For exiled novelist, Turkey 'like 1930s Germany'</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 18 06:08:14 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Turkish novelist Asli Erdogan lives in exile in Germany as she risks a life sentence on terror charges at home]]>
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				<![CDATA[Turkish novelist Asli Erdogan, living in exile in Germany as she risks a life sentence on terror charges at home, thinks the writing is on the wall: her country is sliding into fascism.

The award-winning author, still traumatised by the four months she spent in an Istanbul prison, warns that Turkey's institutions are "in a state of total collapse".

In President Recep Tayyip Erdogan--no relation--she sees a man tightening control over everyday Turkish life, emboldened by an outright victory in June elections, sweeping new powers and a crackdown on opponents.

"The extent of things in Turkey is like Nazi Germany," the flame-haired 51-year-old told AFP in an interview in Frankfurt, her temporary home as she awaits the outcome of her court case in absentia.

It's the beginning of a new era, Turkey's Erdogan tells Imran

"I think it is a fascist regime. It is not yet 1940s Germany, but 1930s," said Asli.

"A crucial factor is the lack of a judicial system," she added, describing a country of overcrowded prisons and pro-Erdogan judges in their twenties rushed in to replace ousted peers.

Asli herself was among the more than 70,000 people caught up in a wave of arrests under a state of emergency imposed after a failed 2016 coup against Erdogan.

She was held for 136 days over her links to a pro-Kurdish newspaper before being unexpectedly freed on bail.

The detention of the author of such novels as "The City in Crimson Cloak" and "The Stone Building and Other Places", famed for their unflinching explorations of loss and trauma, drew international condemnation.

Turkey's Nobel literature laureate Orhan Pamuk has called her "an exceptionally perceptive and sensitive writer."

Turkey's post-coup purge targeted not just alleged backers of preacher Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for the attempted putsch, but also opposition media and people accused of ties to Kurdish militants.

Turkish authorities reject accusations of wide-scale rights violations after the coup, and the state of emergency was lifted last month, after Erdogan was re-elected under a new executive-style presidency giving him direct control of ministries and public institutions.

"Erdogan is almost omnipotent," Asli said.

"He decides on the price of medicine, on the future of classical ballet, his family members are in charge of the economy...Opera, which he hates, is also directly tied to him," she added, chuckling.

"That's the nice thing about fascism, it's also pathetically funny sometimes."

Turkish lawmakers have also approved new legislation giving authorities greater powers in detaining suspects and imposing public order, which officials say is necessary to combat multiple terror risks.

"It's an emergency state made permanent," said Asli.
As for herself, Asli has given up hope of being acquitted and returning to Turkey anytime soon.

"They are not bluffing," she said she realised after several journalists were sentenced to life terms.

She faces charges of spreading "terror propaganda" for her work as a literary advisor to the newspaper Ozgur Gundem.

The paper itself was shut down, accused by Turkish authorities of being a mouthpiece for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), considered a terror group by Ankara and its Western allies.

The next hearings in Asli's case are scheduled for October and March.
The diminutive former physicist said the wait for the verdict was "almost unbearable".

"One of the biggest tortures you can do to a human being is to keep his fate unknown."

Released from prison in late December 2016, it took Asli until last September to get her passport back from Turkish authorities.
She immediately left for Germany, following other Turkish artists and intellectuals into exile.

She now lives in Frankfurt, the recipient of a flat and a monthly stipend as part of the international Cities of Refuge project.

The scheme aims to provide persecuted writers with a safe haven from where they can continue working.

But Asli, who has written eight books translated into 20 languages, hasn't been able to pick up a pen yet.

Turkey under Erdogan: key developments

Struggling with insomnia, depression and health problems, it has been easier to "play the professional writer" in past months, travelling abroad for literary events and talks.

But slowly her nightmares about prison are becoming less frequent, she said, while a painful neck hernia has done her the unexpected favour of forcing her to slow down.

Asli said she was getting "more in the mood" to write, but her immediate focus remained on raising the plight of those still locked up in Turkey.

"I have been pushed into a political role, which I try to carry with grace."

But when she is ready, she will put her own experiences of prison to paper, in what Asli predicts will be "a very heavy confrontation".

"In literature, you have to be more than 200% honest," she said.

"You write with blood."]]>
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			<title>'Bonfire of the Vanities' author Tom Wolfe dead at 87</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 18 17:48:31 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Tom Wolfe, an early practitioner of “new journalism” who captured the mood and culture of America across five decades with books including “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” “The Right Stuff,” and “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” has died at the age of 87, his agent said.

Wolfe, who had a knack for coining phrases such as “radical chic” and “the me decade,” died on Monday of an unspecified infection in a New York City hospital, his agent, Lynn Nesbit, said in a phone interview on Tuesday.

Wolfe’s works - fiction and non-fiction alike - looked at realms ranging from the art world to Wall Street to 1960s hippie culture and touched on the issues of class, power, race, corruption and sex.

“I think every living moment of a human being’s life, unless the person is starving or in immediate danger of death in some other way, is controlled by a concern for status,” Wolfe said in a Wall Street Journal interview.

Wolfe came up with “radical chic” to brand pretentious liberals, the “me decade” to sum up the self-indulgence of the 1970s and the “right stuff” to quantify intangible characteristics of the first US astronauts and their test pilot predecessors.

He was never deterred by the fact that he often did not fit in with his research subjects, partly because he was such a sartorial dandy, known for his white suits.

Wolfe was in his mid-70s while hanging out with college kids and working on the novel “I Am Charlotte Simmons,” and was a fairly conservative drug-free observer in a coat and tie while traveling with Ken Kesey and his LSD-dropping hippie tribe known as The Merry Pranksters for “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” in the ‘60s. By looking so out of place, he figured people would be more prone to explain things to him.

New Journalism

Wolfe started his writing career at the Springfield, Massachusetts, Union newspaper and also worked for the Washington Post, New York Herald-Tribune and New York magazine.

He was present at the birth of what was known as “new journalism,” a loose style that featured lots of dialogue and detail and allowed reporters to narrate and develop characters in a way more often associated with fiction.

One of the genre’s defining moments came when Wolfe was having trouble meeting a deadline for a 1964 magazine story on the hot-rod car culture. In frustration, he sent his editor a letter with his thoughts and reportage. The magazine ran it verbatim as “There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.”

That led to a compilation of Wolfe’s magazine pieces, followed by “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” which captured the spirit of the psychedelic era during his time with Kesey, author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and his band of pranksters who helped spread the popularity of LSD in California. Written in a wild free-association style that disregarded rules of punctuation, it was filled with sentence fragments and used words like “skakkkkkkkkkkkkkk” and “wowwwwwww.”

Renowned Egyptian author Ahmed Khaled Tawfik dies at 55

Wolfe’s style was not for everyone. “The question is not only whether Tom Wolfe can be taken seriously but whether he can be taken at all,” a Time magazine critic wrote in 1968. “He is irritating, but he did develop a new journalistic idiom that has brought relief from standard Middle-High Journalese.”

Wolfe became fascinated with astronauts after Rolling Stone magazine assigned him to cover an Apollo programme launch in 1972. Nine years later and in a more restrained style than some of his earlier works, he wrote “The Right Stuff” about the first seven U.S. astronauts and test pilot Chuck Yeager who came before them.

His first try at fiction was “The Bonfire of the Vanities” in 1987, which captured the cultural feel of free-wheeling Wall Street “masters of the universe” as well as his non-fiction books did. “Bonfire,” a best-seller that was a much-revised version of a serial he wrote for Rolling Stone, portrayed class struggles in New York City against a backdrop of Wall Street ambition, racial stress and yellow journalism.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday that Wolfe’s “wry wit and sharp observations defined an era of life in New York.”

Wolfe followed with more novels - “A Man in Full” about race, big money and high society in Atlanta; “I Am Charlotte Simmons,” a tale of college high life, and “Back to Blood” about immigrants in Florida in 2012.

Wolfe complained that novelists did not bring enough reality to their books, and while bemoaning the state of American literature, offered himself as an exemplar of what it should be. That kindled rivalries with contemporaries Norman Mailer and John Updike, who Wolfe referred to as “two old piles of bones.” John Irving angrily denounced Wolfe by saying, “I can’t read him because he’s such a bad writer.”

Wolfe’s trademark was the white suit, often accessorized with a white hat and two-tone shoes. He admitted he liked the attention they brought him.

Wolfe was born March 2, 1931 and grew up in Richmond, Virginia, the son of an agronomist father and an arts-oriented mother. He was a star pitcher in high school and in college at Washington and Lee and unsuccessfully tried out for the New York Giants.

Wolfe lived in New York with his wife, Sheila. He had two children.]]>
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			<title>Judgment handed down with a 'heavy heart'</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 18 11:25:43 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Judgement says non-disclosure of assets proved to indeed be fatal]]>
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				<![CDATA[The Islamabad High Court announced the decision on Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif’s disqualification with a ‘heavy heart’ on Thursday.

Justice Athar Minallah authored the 35-page verdict, endorsed by the other judges, disqualifying Khawaja Asif under Article 62(i)(f) of the Constitution for holding an Iqama.

"We have handed down this judgment with a heavy heart not only because a seasoned and accomplished political figure stands disqualified but more so because the dreams and aspirations of 342,125 registered voters have suffered a setback," Justice Minallah wrote in the judgement.

Justice Minallah wrote that the court would like to observe that it's not a pleasant duty for any court to be called upon to examine and exercise powers of judicial review which may lead to the disqualification of a member of the Parliament (MP).

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Citing former chief justice Hamoodur Rehman he wrote, "while exercising power of judicial review, the judiciary claims no supremacy over the organs and that it is a duty assigned to the courts to see that the Constitution prevails."

Justice Minallah wrote: "Thus the consistent view of the courts has been that if the determination of any question raised before the court requires interpretation or application of any provision of the Constitution, the court is obliged to adjudicate upon the same notwithstanding that the action impugned or the questions raised has political overtones".

Justice Minallah included quotes from former judgments to explain how judicial review can trump political standing and can cause an interpretation of the Constitution. He also added that the courts' verdicts are all a 'consequence' of political forces resorting to courts.

"Instead of settling disputes at political forums, especially the Parliament, when political forces resort to courts, it has consequences not only for institutions but the public as well," he writes. Justice Minallah added that such actions lower public confidence in the legislative system and exposes the judiciary to controversies of adversarial politics.

"The political forces are expected to settle their grievances before the political forums rather than taking the precious time of the bona fide litigants awaiting justice to be dispensed," the IHC judge wrote, adding that members of the Parliament are the real stakeholders of the country.

Khawaja Asif disqualified by Islamabad High Court

"It would have been appropriate if the political party to which the petitioner belongs had raised the issue at hand in the Parliament before invoking the jurisdiction of this court," Justice Minallah wrote, sighting the irony that Pakistan remains among the few countries without a formal code of ethics for MPAs and Cabinet.

Justice Minallah is of the belief that a written code is needed to avoid situations such as the ones that have been observed in the facts and circumstances of the said petition which disqualified Asif.

He also wrote that the reason for non-disclosure of the occupation as an employee of a company and receiving monthly salary, despite challenges to the foreign remittances. "Would a person of ordinary prudence treat this as an honest non-disclosure of material information prescribed under the Act of 1976? We are afraid that the answer is an emphatic no," Justice Minallah writes.

"Asif had definitely concealed and withheld this material information from his constituents at the crucial time of submitting nomination papers and later when the declarations made were challenged," he added. The material non-disclosure of information was indeed fatal to Asif, Justice Minallah wrote.]]>
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			<title>Renowned Egyptian author Ahmed Khaled Tawfik dies at 55</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 18 06:03:04 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Egyptian and Arab culture has lost a great novelist who enriched culture in Egypt and the Arab world]]>
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				<![CDATA[Influential Egyptian novelist Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, widely considered the first contemporary Arab writer of horror and science fiction, has died at the age of 55.

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Since his death on Monday, condolences have poured in from fellow authors and fans, many of whom said his thrillers had filled a gap in Egyptian literature during their adolescence.

[caption id="attachment_1677094" align="alignnone" width="625"] Mourners at Ahmed Khaled Tawfik’s funeral on Monday. PHOTO: EGYPT TODAY[/caption]

"Egyptian and Arab culture has lost a great novelist who enriched culture in Egypt and the Arab world," Egyptian Culture Minister Inas Abdel-Dayem said.

"He was one of the most prominent writers of thrillers and youth stories... (and) was renowned for his enjoyable and captivating style."

Among his most well-known works are "Utopia," "Fantasia," and "The Supernatural" series, whose main character Refaat Ismael is a medical doctor like Tawfik.

"He helped shape my personality," said 31-year-old Sameh Afifi, who read Tawfik's work when he was a teenager.

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For him, Refaat Ismael, an otherwise ordinary man who lives a life full of paranormal experiences, "was the first character to personify logic... a scientist who is old, weak and ugly, and has severe anxiety. He was very real."

In a statement on Tuesday, the US embassy in Egypt extended condolences to "the family and friends of one of Egypt's most well-known and influential writers."

Tawfik was born in the Nile Delta city of Tanta on June 10, 1962. He graduated from medical school in 1985 and received his PhD in 1997.]]>
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			<title>Simone de Beauvoir's 'passionate' love letters sold</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 18 07:39:49 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Correspondence has been bought by Yale University, which already holds de Beauvoir's manuscripts and personal archives]]>
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				<![CDATA[Film-maker Claude Lanzmann has sold 112 passionate love letters sent to him by the legendary French feminist Simone de Beauvoir, Christie's auction house said Friday.

The director of the acclaimed Holocaust documentary 'Shoah' said he has been forced to part with the correspondence because of a "scandalous" French inheritance law which means that they must go to her family on his death.

The letters, which are filled with the "mad passion" the couple shared during their seven-year affair in the 1950s, have never been published.

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They were bought by Yale University, which already holds de Beauvoir's manuscripts and personal archives.

"I never planned for these letters to come out or be published," said 93-year-old Lanzmann, who was the secretary of de Beauvoir's long-term lover, the philosopher and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre.

The golden couple of French mid-20th century intellectual life had a famously open relationship, and enjoyed - and endured - a number of similar love triangles.

Lanzmann, who was 18 years de Beauvoir's junior, fell in love with her while he was editing "Les Temps Modernes", the ground-breaking review she and Sartre founded after World War II, which the film-maker still heads.

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Agnes Poirier, author of "Left Bank", a new book about how "the ideas that shaped the modern world" were formed in the French capital during the intellectual tumult of the 1940s, said Lanzmann was the only man that de Beauvoir lived with.

"She and Sartre always kept separate apartments, but she let Lanzmann move in with her. He was about 26 she was 44 when the affair started, and he always said was she a 'grande amoureuse', a very passionate lover," she said.

"After the age of 40 de Beauvoir thought she was not desirable anymore but she had a second youth with him," Poirier said - and the author of the "The Second Sex" lived it "like a rebirth".

Poirier said that it had been always rumoured that Lanzmann "seduced her for a bet, or at least boasted that he could steal a kiss," but said that there was no doubting the intensity of their love.

"They had two little desks and they would work together in the mornings, then in the afternoons she would go and write with Sartre."

Just as with Sartre, it was an open relationship "but de Beauvoir took it badly when she discovered that Lanzmann had had an affair he didn't tell her about."

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"She wasn't judgemental, it was just the fact that he didn't tell her that annoyed her," the writer added.

According to Yale's library, which for now is only making the letters available in its reading room, most were written while de Beauvoir was travelling with Sartre on their headline-making visits to Russia, China, Japan and Cuba.

Lanzmann railed against the French law which he said had forced him to sell the letters to Yale, saying it was crazy that it "states that the contents of the letters did not belong to the person they were addressed to."

However, he said he had the right "to pass them on in the hope that the purchaser can, if not publish them, then at least conserve them and make them available to historians and researchers."

The top American university can "now be proud of having all of her letters to me", which Lanzmann called "an exceptional, passionate correspondence".

Christie's auction house which arranged the private sale did not reveal how much the letters had been sold for.]]>
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			<title>Brian Aldiss 'Grand Master' of science fiction literature dies at 92</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 17 11:47:06 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Author of over 80 books, editor of 40 anthologies died after celebrating his birthday]]>
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				<![CDATA[Brian Aldiss, the world renowned science fiction author whose writing has shaped the genre since his first publication in the 1950s, has died at the age of 92, reported The Guardian.

Aldiss' agent and son have announced that the author, artist, poet and memoirist died at his home in Oxford on August 19, 2017. "Brian had celebrated his birthday with close friends and family and spoken to many close to him,” wrote Tim Aldiss, his son, on Twitter as he announced the death of "our beloved father and grandfather."

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Aldiss was the notable author of classics such as Non-Stop, Hothouse, and Greybeard, as well as the Helliconia trilogy. His agent described the trilogy as bridging "the gap between classic science fiction and contemporary literature." His numerous short stories include Super-Toys last All Summer Log, which was adapted into a Steven Spielberg film.

He also received multiple awards; the Hugo and Nebula prizes for science fiction and fantasy, an honourary doctorate from the University of Reading, the title of grand master from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. In addition, he also received an OBE for his services to literature. In a 2013 profile of Aldiss for the Guardian, Stuart Kelly described him as “the grand old man of British science fiction”, saying that “few writers have contributed more” to speculative fiction.

Adam Roberts said he was "very sad" about Aldiss’s death, "though 92 is not a bad innings". "Aldiss was one of the greats. I remember staying up all night as a teenager to read a tattered copy of Hothouse, before I even knew who he was. And the shock of Helliconia Spring, which was like nothing I’d read before,” said Jon Courtenay Grimwood.

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“He was stubborn, stroppy, and an inveterate raconteur, and it seemed sometimes that there was no great writer, from TS Eliot to Kingsley Amis to Dylan Thomas, that he hadn’t known or hadn’t been drinking with."]]>
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			<title>Pulitzer-winning playwright Sam Shepard passes away at 73</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 17 17:46:20 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[He has died from complications related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; He wrote more than 40 plays]]>
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				<![CDATA[Actor and Pulitzer-winning playwright Sam Shepard has died from complications related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a representative for his family said on Monday.

Shepard, 73, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for his play Buried Child, died last week at home in Kentucky on Thursday, surrounded by his family, spokesman Chris Boneau said in a statement to Reuters.

Buried Child was the story of a family's dark secret and, like many of his works, touched on disillusionment and broken families. His other plays included the Tony-nominated True West, Curse of the Starving Class and Fool for Love.

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Shepard's stoic manner and rugged good looks made him a solid choice to play test pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff - a role that earned him an Oscar nomination. His other films included Days of Heaven, August: Osage County, The Notebook, Black Hawk Down and Steel Magnolias.

Shepard also wrote the script for Paris, Texas, the 1984 film directed by Wim Wenders that won the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, and Robert Altman's screen version of Fool for Love.

Most recently, he played patriarch Robert Rayburn in Netflix's thriller Bloodline, his final on-screen role, and released a novel, The One Inside, in February.

Shepard grew up in the West and Midwest with a father he described as a violent alcoholic. After dropping out of college, he spent a few months with a traveling theater company and in 1963 at age 19 moved to New York with little money and no connections. He fell into New York's off-off-Broadway scene while working as a bus boy at the famous jazz club the Village Gate and his first plays were staged that year.

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Shepard, who shortened his playwright name from Samuel Shepard Rogers Jr., wrote more than 40 plays.

Shepard also delved into the music world, spending part of the 1960s as the drummer in the eccentric folk band the Holy Modal Rounders, living with Patti Smith, who collaborated on the play Cowboy Mouth with him, and writing the song Brownsville Girl with Bob Dylan. Music often was incorporated into his plays and he said the key to writing them was to "find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come."

Shepard was married to actress O-Lan Jones from 1969 to 1984 and they had one child. He had a relationship of nearly 30 years with Jessica Lange, who starred with him in the 1982 film Frances, that ended in 2009. They had two children.

Funeral arrangements remain private, and no plans have been made yet for a public memorial, Boneau said.]]>
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			<title>J K Rowling reveals shocking information about another book</title>
			<link>https://tribune.com.pk/story/1454537/j-k-rowling-reveals-shocking-information-another-book</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 17 10:25:18 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[The interview created frenzy on social media platforms as everybody voiced their questions and concerns]]>
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				<![CDATA[In an interview with CNN, the internationally acknowledged author J K Rowling, who conjured up the mystical world of Harry Potter, revealed information that she has written another book, but one which may never be published.

J K Rowling marks 'wonderful' Harry Potter anniversary

J K Rowling is best known for her Harry Potter books which cast a spell over the world, and enchanting children and willing them to open their imagination. The young, orphaned wizard, with a lightening-shaped scar has contributed greatly to literature, in different languages.

In the recent interview, Rowling revealed that the book she has written cannot be published because it’s written on a dress. “. On my 50th - the theme of my 50th birthday, which I held at Halloween, even though that's not really my birthday, was come as your own private nightmare. And I went as a lost manuscript. And I wrote over a dress most of that book. So that book, I don't know whether it will ever be published, but it's actually hanging in a wardrobe currently.”

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/884318992453824512

Rowling, who penned down her inspirations longhand in Edinburgh cafes, says that she scrawled the secret manuscript across her 50th birthday party dress. In a disclosure that will shock many die-hard Harry Potter fans, the 'book' now hangs in her closet.

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Rowling dropped the bombshell at the end of an interview about her children's charity Lumos, in which she discussed her worst fears and why she is determined to put an end to orphanages.

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			<title>Sarah Jessica Parker's editorial debut: Story of an Indian-Muslim family settled in America</title>
			<link>https://tribune.com.pk/story/1452520/sarah-jessica-parkers-editorial-debut-story-indian-muslim-family-settled-america</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 17 11:52:07 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Her debut will be Fatima Farheen Mirza’s novel &quot;A Place for Us&quot;]]>
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				<![CDATA[Actor Sarah Jessica Parker’s debut as the editorial director of SJP for Hogarth is a novel written by an Indian Muslim family residing in California, and will be published in 2019, reported Vogue.

Parker, who is an acclaimed actress, shoe designer, producer and recently, a literary enthusiast, has her own line of books within the Hogarth imprint of Penguin Random House’s Crown Publishing Group. And her debut will be Fatima Farheen Mirza’s novel, A Place for Us.

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The book will follow the family on the eve of their eldest daughter’s wedding, is the brainchild of Mirza, 26, who is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. She is also a former teacher of creative writing and fiction and the University of Iowa and at the Iowa Young Writer’s Studio.

She claims she began writing the novel when she was in college, and it was an eight-years-progress. “I could not be happier with the home it has found,” Mirza said in a press release about her novel being taken up by Parker.

“Speaking with Sarah Jessica Parker and Lindsay Sagnette, and seeing the care and enthusiasm they bring to their books has been deeply comforting. I’m confident in their vision for the novel and grateful that it will be brought into the world by SJP for Hogarth.”

Parker, in her latest role as a publisher, said she was “taken hostage by Fatima Mirza’s heartrending and timely story” and praised the author's ability to inform her reader “what it means to reconcile one’s love of family and culture with a desire to find one’s own path, and one’s own faith".

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"Mirza painstakingly details the life of an Indian Muslim family in America and their children’s search to feel whole, fulfilled, and content," said Parker. "She captures your mind and heart with an urgency that defies you to stop reading. I guarantee you will be different when you close the book.”]]>
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			<title>Through book, author tries to improve Pakistan’s image</title>
			<link>https://tribune.com.pk/story/1339338/book-author-tries-improve-pakistans-image</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 17 06:23:03 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Mariam Shafqat]]>
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				<![CDATA[Kelsey Hoppe wants to change how the world sees and thinks about the country]]>
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				<![CDATA[For a country with serious image problem, American author Kelsey Hoppe wants to change how the world sees and thinks about Pakistan with her latest book.

‘In Lahore: A Contemporary Guide to the City’ was launched on Saturday at the Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) 2017, which has been cut short to just one day owing to security concerns.

“I hope the book helps in letting people know that this country is a place of hospitality, amazing food, shops and ancient history rather than just news of terrorism,” Kelsey said while talking to The Express Tribune.

Fate of Lahore Literary Festival hangs in balance

Having lived in Lahore for three years with her husband, the writer was inspired to write a travel guide for the city after realising there was not much literature available for visitors about shops and restaurants, historical sites or art and culture. “I wanted to collect as much information as possible and write a book so that people can get to know Lahore better,” she said.

While the book has been written basically to help foreigners travelling in Lahore, more and more Lahori’ites have pointed out to the author that even they did not know about several places mentioned in the book.



“The book is as useful for locals as it is for visitors,” Kelsey said. “Some of my friends have bought the book for their families back in the United Kingdom and America for reference when they visit the city later.”

Sharing some of her personal favourites about Lahore, the author says that besides liking many things, she particularly enjoys visiting the Wazir Khan Mosque and Man Mir Shrine as well as having the typical breakfast of channa-puri at the Gawalmandi food street.

In the book’s introduction, Kelsey writes that the rich amalgam that is Lahore makes for an immensely pleasurable visit, but provides some challenges when writing a city guide.

To start with, there has been no definitive historical literature produced on the city and many of the websites and books covering Lahore’s past contradict each other on dates and places.

Lahore gears up for fifth episode of literary festival

“Restaurants and shops come and go with alarming regularity, so capturing them all is virtually impossible.

Inevitably the moment this is published, it will be out of date and there will be no shortage of opinions and arguments about why the best restaurant or shop was left out,” Kelsey says.

She writes that anyone who visits Lahore with an open mind and the slightest sense of adventure will instantly be taken in by its charm and unfailing hospitality.

The photographs in the book have been taken by the author’s husband Ben French and a friend Taimoor Baig.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 26th, 2017.]]>
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			<title>Beyond the arc lights</title>
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				<![CDATA[If you want to enjoy your Saturday evening at home without having to go out to enjoy the sights, sounds and flavours of your city, Mrs Funnybones is just the right book you have landed on your sofa with.


The book is a personal account of the everyday life of an Indian woman, who looks after her business, manages her household and, at the same time, tries to keep herself fit and healthy. She also has to reckon with her childen who belong to different age groups and temperaments.

Since Mrs Funnybones is written by Twinkle Khanna — who is mostly known for her affiliation with the Indian film world — one might expect it to be full of anecdotes about film shoots, movie premieres and star-studded parties. But Khanna’s book looks beyond the veneer of Bollywood and finds laughter in the most mundane of matters.

Telling tales in translation

She talks about how she deals with her sleep-deprived assistant at work and her mother’s shrewd but well-meaning advice. Khanna’s lens focuses on the lighter and mostly comical moments of her relationship with her husband and two children.

Set in an Indian suburb, Juhu, the book draws heavily from Indian culture to propel the narrative forward. Mrs Funnybones is given its identity by its plot and the elements that are most common to the place it is set in.

Khanna’s light-hearted observations of Karva Chauth captivate the reader and are instantly relatable for many Hindu women who are married.

The soldier whose sword is a pen

Karva Chauth is a fast that women keep for their husband’s longevity. It is usually celebrated amid fanfare and hardly any Bollywood movie that depicts the festival is devoid of singing and dancing, with women wearing flashy saris, ghararas or shalwar kameez. Most films and literature that mention Karva Chauth are played up in a needlessly sentimental manner. However, Karva Chauth for Khanna, as explained in her book, is not solely an emotional affair. How she explains it leaves one laughing at the feelings of someone who is caught up reluctantly in a cultural celebration. Later, Khanna refers to a rakhi with a bare-chested picture of Salman Khan which has a similar effect.

The book offers a delightful peek into the life of a woman who was once a popular actress. The reader will be pleased to know just how familiar yet fascinating Khanna’s life really is.

The lost world of Ishtiaq Ahmed

Title: Mrs Funnybones
Author: Twinkle Khanna
Publisher: Penguin India
Pages: 248
ISBN: 978-0-14-342446-8

The writer is a subeditor on The Express Tribune’s Peshawar desk

Published in The Express Tribune, December 20th, 2015.

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			<title>The unbreakable journey</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 15 16:19:44 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[‘Steel Wheels’ presents Rafi’s inspiring struggle after he is diagnosed with Friedrich’s Ataxia]]>
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				<![CDATA[Asad Rafi’s Steel Wheels: The Unbreakable Journey, is exactly what the title suggests — wheels made of sterner stuff.


The book presents the author’s hard and inspiring struggle after he is diagnosed with Friedrich’s Ataxia. The disease causes progressive damage to the nervous system as well as the degeneration of the nerve tissue in the spinal cord. The sensory neurons that direct muscle movement of the arms and legs are particularly affected by this condition.

In a concise and moving story, Rafi speaks to the reader through personal experiences. Throughout the book, he does not resort to cliches to tell his story. On the contrary, he adopts a familiar, almost comforting tone, to bring his message across.

Telling tales in translation

The initial chapters delve into his carefree youth and his love for cricket. Rafi describes himself as an ardent Imran Khan admirer and gains encouragement from him during many important phases of his childhood.

Through his simple prose, the author portrays childhood innocence without stretching the truth. During his childhood, Rafi’s passion is cricket and he aspires to become a sportsman.


Asad Rafi
The latter half of the book deals with Rafi’s life after being diagnosed with Freidrich’s Ataxia. As a result, Rafi, who dreamt of becoming a cricketer someday, is confined to a wheelchair at the age of 17.

What came as a colossal blow to a teenager eventually turned into a blessing. Rafi, who was an otherwise shy and reserved child, goes on to become a motivational speaker and author. He draws motivation from the likes of Michael Jackson, Roger Federer, W Mitchell Anderson, and a former US Marine Corps officer, and acquires the strength and determination to surmount hurdles. Rafi eventually starts focusing on things he can do instead of those he cannot do.

The conclusive chapters are hard-hitting and prod the reader to think about positive change. Rafi focuses on the need to alter Pakistan’s approach towards people suffering from disabilities. He envisions it to be a wheelchair-friendly country and lays the groundwork for a better future.

The soldier whose sword is a pen

The author mentions instances from his travels to London and Dubai, where he discusses the ease and convenience differently-abled persons enjoy. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, the lack of basic necessities for people suffering from disabilities is a reminder of the glaring discrepancies in our policies.

Rafi urges us to come up with ways to make life easier for them. This is not a form of pleading. Instead, Rafi’s words guide us towards enlightenment.

Title: Steel wheels
Author: Asad Rafi
Publisher: FK Squared
Pages: 90
ISBN: 978-969-9877-11-7

The writer is a subeditor on The Express Tribune’s Blogs desk

Published in The Express Tribune, December 20th, 2015.

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			<title>T-Diaries: Hina Jadav Sunil</title>
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				<![CDATA[A glimpse into the world of Pakistani powerhouses

What inspired you to become an author? 

Life was turning out to be different than I imagined so I needed some space to breathe. In my quest to find solace, I decided to put my emotions in words.

What inspires you?

My inspiration comes from within as I am a firm believer in individualism.

What do you do when inspiration strikes?

The moment I get an idea, I jot it down no matter what time of the day or place. Then I think about it until it’s ripe enough.

How would you encourage women in their respective other fields?

Women should collaborate their efforts, encourage one another and work together. Promoting each other will help us grow.

What is the hardest part about being a writer in Pakistan?

Being a fiction writer in the country is hard, mostly because there are not enough publishing houses ready to publish romance or fiction. Also, being a working mother can become a hurdle, as it is difficult to balance both personal and professional life. However, the end results are quite rewarding.

What is the best part about being an author?

Meeting new people, getting positive feedback such as someone saying “your work changed my life”, gives me immense encouragement and that is what I live for.

What is it like being an author?

Being an author is wonderful. The only reason one becomes an author is because they want to reach deeper corners of people’s hearts and inspire them.

Any advice you would like to give to women wanting to write?

Write whatever makes you happy. Don’t be afraid and don’t let failure or the fear of failure hold you back.

Hina Jadav Sunil 

Author

Published in The Express Tribune, Ms T, July 12th, 2015.]]>
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