This documentary on the principal character responsible for the creation of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was obviously made with an eye on the golden jubilee celebrations of the independence of
Some other major deficiencies apart, the main problem with the film appears to be in the flawed approach to the subject. It deals neither with the life of the Quaid nor with his work; both are touched upon only episodically in the course of defend ing the Quaids character and politics.
Pakistan has never had any Jinnah: he was always the Quaid-e-Azam. Attempts to dig out the human being inside the Great Leader have been discouraged as being anti-Pakistan; in fact,
Satellite television is reaching out, but the target audience is still Indians.
It´s 11:30 on a lazy Sunday morning, India time, and if you want to look over
India: From Midnight to the Millennium
by Shashi Tharoor
Viking Penguin, New Delhi, 1997
A secular, liberal, urbane, globalised Indian fails to grasp India.
Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams
by Patrick McCully
Zed Books, London, 1996
The book makes an overwhelming argument against dams; but it is equally possible to
The Year That Was
edited by Ishrat Firdousi
Bantu Prahashan, Dhaka, 1996
Truth destroys all rosy notions of what a remembered war should be. War becomes a time where the
Everybody Loves a Good Drought
by P. Sainath
Penguin Books India, New Delhi, 1996
ISBN 0 14 25984 8
In the early 1980s, villagers in Naupada district in India´s
Tibet: The Road Ahead
by Dawa Norbu Harper Collins Publishers India, New
Delhi, 1997 INR 395, pp 378, ISBN 81 7223 238 1
Contemporary books about pre-1950 Tibet tend to
