Of pearls and pecks of straw : recollections, essays, after-thoughts / Iqbal Akhund.

By: Akhund, Iqbal [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: xxvii, 227 pages : illustrations (some in color) ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199407613Subject(s): Akhund, Iqbal | Diplomats -- Pakistan -- BiographyDDC classification: 327.2092, AKH LOC classification: DS385.A48 | A54 2017
Contents:
The past disappeared in one stroke (Page-1), 'Where are such men (Page-9),Time, like a dark wind (Page-18),'Wa raqs mi kunad (Page-31), forgotten page (Page-36), journey of which I knew not the destination (Page-42),Reshmi Rumaal (Page-52),Purdah (Page-55),Emancipation (Page-60),Westernization (Page-66),Paris of the East (Page-73),Leftovers (Page-80),Solitary, not lonely (Page-86),Homebodies (Page-97),Tiffin carriers and holdalls (Page-117),East is East and West is West (Page-124), Showpang (Page-128), The demon drink (Page-132), School (Page-137), Joe, Jim, Jam (Page-142),Two Nations (Page-150), Pakistan ka matlab kya (Page-154), Urdish/Hindlish (Page-161), Feudal interlude (Page-166), Veracity, loyalty, modesty (Page-174), When France was France (Page-179), And yet (Page-183), Sole superpower (Page-187), Latvia (Page-193), Law of the jungle (Page-201), Unusual encounters (Page-207).
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The past disappeared in one stroke (Page-1), 'Where are such men (Page-9),Time, like a dark wind (Page-18),'Wa raqs mi kunad (Page-31), forgotten page (Page-36), journey of which I knew not the destination (Page-42),Reshmi Rumaal (Page-52),Purdah (Page-55),Emancipation (Page-60),Westernization (Page-66),Paris of the East (Page-73),Leftovers (Page-80),Solitary, not lonely (Page-86),Homebodies (Page-97),Tiffin carriers and holdalls (Page-117),East is East and West is West (Page-124), Showpang (Page-128), The demon drink (Page-132), School (Page-137), Joe, Jim, Jam (Page-142),Two Nations (Page-150), Pakistan ka matlab kya (Page-154), Urdish/Hindlish (Page-161), Feudal interlude (Page-166), Veracity, loyalty, modesty (Page-174), When France was France (Page-179), And yet (Page-183), Sole superpower (Page-187), Latvia (Page-193), Law of the jungle (Page-201), Unusual encounters (Page-207).

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