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...traditions - a subject Sardar uses as a point of entry into how and why a term-defying group lazily called South Asians ended up in the U.K. - Balti Britain too is a garam masala of styles. It is part autobiography, part family history, part history, part journalism, part polemical essay. His favored method is to use an often mundane morsel of information and then launch into an erudite analysis of the surprisingly complex ingredients of which it is composed. For example, the unorthodox orthography of the name of his friend, AbdoolKarim Vakil, and the particularly rigorous tradition of arranged marriage...
...Throughout these larger histories, Sardar weaves in personal stories. The fact of his new fatherhood becomes a path into an essay on the British rewriting of India's past. The shocking discovery that his paternal grandfather fought for the British in the Second Afghan War prompts a disinterment of the long chain of cause and effect that has led to Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan becoming one of the world's most unstable regions. There are genuinely illuminating sections, such as the one on the distinction between Deobandi and Barelvi Muslims and how an appreciation...
...Defense of George W. Bush Michael Kinsley's essay on Bush's failures fails to take into account legitimate concerns over growing terrorism before the Bush Administration [Jan. 12]. He dismisses the 1993 World Trade Center attack and the 2000 U.S.S. Cole bombing - which killed 17 U.S. sailors - to create the image of a fearmongering Republican President. Kinsley scolds Bush for not keeping his promises, but Kinsley must realize that these circumstances call for extreme measures. Raza Syed Hoda, Ithaca...
...Defense of George W. Bush Michael Kinsley's essay on bush's failures fails to take into account legitimate concerns over growing terrorism before the Bush Administration [Jan. 12]. He dismisses the 1993 World Trade Center attack and the 2000 U.S.S. Cole bombing - which killed 17 U.S. sailors - to create the image of a fearmongering Republican President. Kinsley scolds Bush for not keeping his promises, but Kinsley must realize that these circumstances call for extreme measures. Raza Syed Hoda, Ithaca...
...Defense of George W. Bush Michael Kinsley's essay on Bush's failures fails to take into account legitimate concerns over growing terrorism before the Bush Administration [Jan. 12]. He dismisses the 1993 World Trade Center attack and the 2000 U.S.S. Cole bombing - which killed 17 U.S. sailors - to create the image of a fear-mongering President. Kinsley scolds Bush for not keeping his promises, but Kinsley must realize that these circumstances call for extreme measures. Raza Syed Hoda, ITHACA...