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...Hanif Mohammed Patni Vancouver...
...three young Pakistanis burst into the London offices of the Indian High Commission armed with swords, acid spray and toy guns. They took eight staff members hostage, apparently to draw attention to the P.O.W. issue. British police, thinking the guns were real, killed two youths, Basharat Hussain and Mohammed Hanif Hussain, both 19, and captured the third, a 15-year...
Miss Mendelsohn's photographs are powerful. The viewer feels an intimacy for Tina and Hanif which is rarely accomplished with photographs. Part of this success rests with the quality of the photographs. An important part, however, rests with just what Miss Mendelsohn is describing. She shows us Tina and Tina's friends. She gives quotations by the friends about each other. The collection of photographs becomes more than just descriptions of several people. It becomes a family of interrelated people and images, each adding to and explaining the other...
...empire, the war that is to break out at the end of the book hovers like a force more powerful than the will of the strong-willed characters. Long before it has broken out, obscure riots and inexplicably venomous slanders twist personal and social relations. Example: Hanif, Madame de St. Remy's servant (he is as dissolute as she is pious), returns from his sweetheart to find a group of men blocking his path. '"Do you spend the night beside the road, my brothers?' he inquired. . . . and for a moment they confronted him in a silence whose...