Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Author Stephen Covey, dead at 79

By Associated Press, SALT LAKE CITY — Considered a pioneer in the self-help genre aimed at helping readers become more productive in their lives, author Stephen R. Covey had an enormous impact on both the corporate world and the personal lives of millions.  The well-known motivational speaker and author of the best-selling “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” which sold ...

COLUMN: A touch of humour

By Intizar Husain | From InpaperMagzine | MAULANA Muhammad Husain Azad and Deputy Nazir Ahmad are two distinguished names in the early generation of Urdu prose writers. From among those following these giants, Mirza Farhatullah Baig stands distinguished because of his cultured prose style. It is gratifying to see that Oxford University Press has chosen to publish him under its series “Jadid Urdu Classics”. Compiled by...

Barack Obama: the Making of the Man by David Maraniss – Review

BY ALEC MACGILLIS - Obama plays basketball. Photo: Getty Images   Barack Obama: the Making of the Man  David Maraniss As closely scrutinised as the rise of Barack Hussein Obama has been, there has always been one chapter in his life around which mystery has hung: his late teens and early twenties, which he entered as a fairly carefree lad who dreamed of basketball stardom and had a yen for good marijuana...

Elusive Enemies- Books About the Pursuit of Al Qaeda

Illustration by Jesse Lenz; Photographs from www.muslm.net, via Associated Press Khalid Shaikh Mohammed at his capture in 2003, left, and in a photo said to have been taken at Guantánamo in 2009. By JONATHAN MAHLER Published: July 6, 2012 More than a decade after 9/11, it seems safe to say, the global war on terror has been both an extraordinary success and a colossal failure. 1- THE HUNT FOR KSM Inside the Pursuit...

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel - Review

  Originally appeared in the Guardian Oh, those Tudors! We can't get enough of them. Whole bookshelves have been filled with them, acres of film consecrated to their antics. How badly behaved they were. What Machiavellian plottings and betrayals. Will we never tire of the imprisonments, torturings, entrail-windings, and burnings at the stake. Philippa Gregory has very successfully tackled the Boleyn girls, Mary the Mistress...