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The end of corruption?
The ultimate success of the current anti-corruption drive depends entirely on the make-up of the next parliament, argues Rehman Sobhan
If such "clean" candidates, many if not most of whom may not be particularly wealthy people, are to contest elections, they will need a level playing field where the power of money and muscle will have
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The third decade of Saarc
Sridhar Khatri assesses where things stand and what needs to be done
Let me just cite a number of examples to support this argument. First is the case of poverty in South Asia.
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American Mamlukes
M. Shahid Alam draws a fascinating parallel between the Islamic empires of old and the US of today
It is a fact little known in the West, outside the circle of historians of Islamicate societies, that Islamicate states often employed soldiers and bureaucrats who were "slaves" of the king or emperor.
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Bad girls and middle-class morality
Rubaiyat Hossain shines a spot-light on the disturbing constructions of Bangladeshi womanhood to be found in the novels of Humayun Ahmed
In almost every Humayun Ahmed novel, the girls and women weep because of their guilt for experiencing some remote sexual desire like touching the man's face, holding his hand in the dark, coming intoa
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Washington Irving and Islam
Syed Ashraf Ali recalls the forgotten story of the great writer who first introduced Islam to the American public
In May 1829, Irving reached Granada, the last seat of Muslim power in Spain and the most romantic city in the country.
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