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Ali Husain Mir Interview
No full textAli Husain Mir is a Bollywood lyricist and script writer and a professor of Management at William Paterson University. Mir visited the Hindi Urdu Flagship at the University of Texas at Austin to speak to Flagship students about his career in Urdu literature and Bollywood production. For this interview, Mir sat down with HUF directors, Syed Akbar Hyder and Herman van Olphen, to discuss his background in Urdu and the state of the language in modern India. Mir is the author of Anthems of Resistance, the definitive book on the All India Progressive Writers’ Movement; he is also an acclaimed lyricist and script-writer for Hindi and Urdu films (Iqbal, Dor). Mir’s oeuvre engages issues of religious minorities and secularism in South Asia.Asian Studie
فردوس حیدر باشعور افسانہ نگار
No full textFirdous Hyder was one of the prominent Urdu short story writer of our time. She has penned a large number of Urdu short stories. This paper first describes her brief biographical sketch and a family background that shaped her mind and gave her a peculiar bent of mind, which was later on reflected in her writings. The author of this paper has taken into account Firdous Hyder's short stories while analyzing them and has concluded that Firdous Hyder was ever so careful as to take into account different ingredients of the miliey against the backdrop of which she wrote. It shows how Firdous Hyder reflects her conscientiousness in her Urdu short stories with examples from her works.
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Romance and Revolution in Bollywood Songs: Politics, Language, and Religion in Hindi-Urdu Cinema
No full textAli Husain Mir is a Bollywood lyricist and script writer and a professor of Management at William Paterson University. Mir visited the Hindi Urdu Flagship at the University of Texas at Austin to speak to Flagship students about his career in Bollywood production and the changing role of Urdu in Indian cinema.
Mir is the author of Anthems of Resistance, the definitive book on the All India Progressive Writers’ Movement; he is also an acclaimed lyricist and script-writer for Hindi and Urdu films (Iqbal, Dor). Mir’s oeuvre engages issues of religious minorities and secularism in South Asia.Asian Studie
Metabolic and Vascular Imaging Biomarkers for Brain Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
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The Pakistan National Alliance of 1977
No full texttextThis study focuses on the Pakistan National Alliance (PNA) and the movement associated with that party, in the aftermath of the 1977 elections in Pakistan. Through this study, the author addresses the issue of regionalism and its effects on politics at a National level. A study of the course of the movement also allows one to look at the problems in representation and how ideological stances merge with material conditions and needs of the country’s citizenry to articulate the desire for, what is basically, an equitable form of democracy that is peculiar to Pakistan. The form of such a democratic system of governance can be gauged through the frustrations and desires of the variety of Pakistan’s oppressed classes. Moreover, the fissures within the discourses that appear through the PNA, as well as their reassessment and analysis helps one formulate a fresh conception of resistance along different matrices of society within the country.Asian Studie
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Neruda in Asia, Asia in Neruda : enduring traces of South Asia in the journey through Residencia en la tierra
No full texttextEven the title Residencia en la tierra, one of the early masterworks of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, suggests a subject who stands alone in a world that is his by happenstance, in which he does not permanently dwell and to which he does not naturally belong. Stylistically and politically, too, among Neruda’s work Residencia seems to stand alone. Before Residencia, Neruda’s poetry was deeply personal and, compared to what came later, profoundly standard for its time and place; after the Residencia poems were completed—though before they had all been published— Neruda’s poetry would take a turn for the political that would remain with him more or less for the duration of his career. Indeed, the series presents a paradox for critics: a pivotal moment in his poetic development—what Emir Rodríguez Monegal calls Neruda’s first truly creative work—but also a work seemingly out of sync with Neruda’s later writings and vehemently rejected by the author himself only a few years after its publication. In sum, it is a work that refuses equally to be incorporated or to be ignored. This essay will attempt to carve out a more stable place for Residencia en la tierra in the critical understanding of Neruda’s poetic trajectory precisely by returning it to the place of its genesis. By retracing Neruda’s experiences in South Asia during his sojourn in Burma [Myanmar] and Ceylon [Sri Lanka] as a diplomat in the laste 1920s, the place where the enduring symbolism and ethical framework of the Residencia series were born, I will suggest new modes of reading Residencia that shed light on both why this book is so different from his others and the ways in which they are profoundly linked.Comparative Literatur
The Determinate World: Kant and Helmholtz on the Physical Meaning of Geometry
No full textThis study examines the place of Hermann von Helmholtz´s seminal papers on geometry in his philosophy of science. The arguments of these papers are traced back to his prior work on the theory of magnitudes, as well as to Helmholtz´s early, Kantian position. The author claims that Helmholtz should be understood not as opposing Kant, but as modifying the latter´s theory of magnitudes so as to remove obstacles to their common project of constructing a complete system of natural science
The Causes of Entrepreneurial Success in BRAC Micro – finance Program
No full textBangladesh was founded in 1971 after the war of independence. Bangladesh is a poor country, and thirty six percent of total population lives under the poverty line. To alleviate poverty, the government has initiated various projects. To strengthen those efforts, NGOs have also come forward with different programs.
BRAC, a leading non-government organization in Bangladesh, implements a micro-finance, employment and income generation program for alleviating poverty. Under this program BRAC gives credit support to different entrepreneurs. However, in reality some them are succeeding while others given the same resources fail to succeed. To understand the causes of this, the author researched one question: What are the underlying causes of success and failure of entrepreneurs financed by the BRAC micro-finance program?
The author adopted a qualitative research approach to interview ten successful and ten unsuccessful entrepreneurs. In addition, the author also conducted focus group discussions with BRAC staff members who directly supervise these selected entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurs were selected purposively from different Area Offices under the BDP Mymensingh region. Based on the research question the author analyzed the data collected through interviews and focus group discussion. A conclusion was reached that supports from internal and external sources have a significant impact on the success of an entrepreneur.
The conclusion bears significant meaning for BRAC and other NGOs working in the development field. The findings can also be beneficial to existing and potential new entrepreneurs who are seeking proven methods of making their new enterprise successful. This research points out that there are perhaps as many lessons to be learned from the entrepreneurs who fail as there is from those who succeed
Tasneem Ahmad Siddiqui. Towards Good Governance. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2000. 235 pages Hardback. Rs 495.00.
No full textTasneem Ahmad Siddiqui is a former civil servant who has
written a book that is in tune with the governance issues being faced by
Pakistan on a variety of fronts. The author has had much experience of
the grassroots level and provides the reader a view of the changes at
that level for a dynamic societal change. There is clear evidence of the
faith that he seems to have in the resourcefulness of the people of
Pakistan. The hallmark of the book is its concise and easy reading with
not just criticisms but workable solutions that are offered by the
author. At the outset, the crisis being faced by Pakistan is
highlighted. The author delves into the historical antecedents of this
crisis, apportioning blame to the Harvard Advisory Group, as it was
their flawed development strategy with a pro-industry bias that ignored
agriculture. They believed in jump-start modernisation without giving
serious consideration to the fact that Pakistan has a strong
agricultural base. The stated wisdom of such a policy at that time was
that surplus labour from agriculture would be shifted to industry and
this would tackle poverty and income inequalities as espoused by the
‘trickle-down theory’. This thinking was not an exclusive one, as such a
strategy was pursued by policy-makers of many newly independent states
in the post-Second World War era. However, the ensuing importance
granted to profits as opposed to wages in the ‘development decade’
resulted in greater inequalities of income, and a greater concentration
of economic resources, whereby twenty-two families came to own 80
percent of the banks and 95 percent of the insurance companies.
According to the author, what the policy-makers failed to realise,
through the import of such a Western model, was that in the long run low
wages would generate low profits
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