Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...important to you to stake out a Pakistani voice separate from a general subcontinental voice...
...What about someone like Sara Suleri, has she been successful in creating a specifically Pakistani story in Meatless Days...
...unfortunately falls into the category of `difficult to read, but respectfully admired.' But Vikram is much lighter and I think would be accessible to a lot more people. But I must clarify, when I say Indian literature is coming into its own, I mean Indian, I don't mean Pakistani. There's an Indian lobby and I'm out of that...
...sent away to stem her growing conservativism, a conservatism in tandem with the milieu of the newly imposed military regime in Pakistan. But this flimsy pretense doesn't convince us that Feroza's jaunt in the U.S. is politically motivated. Sidhwa's juxta-positions of late 70s Pakistani politics with Feroza's self-indulgent trip are discovered early on in the book for what they are: forced, gratuitous and very ambitious. This is not to say that Sidhwa's descriptions of the anxieties and emotions surrounding Bhutto's hanging and the return to military rule are flawed; in these scenes...
...were making so much progress putting together the beginnings of a peaceful regime that his chance of eventually taking over the whole country was slipping away; he could retrieve it only by causing enough trouble to disrupt the mission. In early June his forces ambushed Pakistani troops inspecting unguarded weapons depots, killing 24. An outraged Security Council responded with a resolution authorizing "arrest and detention for prosecution, trial and punishment" of those responsible. Eleven days later, retired U.S. Admiral Jonathan Howe, Boutros-Ghali's chief deputy in Somalia, plastered the bombed-out buildings of Mogadishu with posters offering...