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Pakistan’s Jingle Trucks
f you travel the precipitous mountain roads of Afghanistan or northwestern Pakistan, sooner rather than later you’ll find yourself stuck behind a huge old Bedford truck, overloaded with sugar, cows or refugees, creeping uphill at five kilometres/hour and belching thick black diesel…
Life in a Gilded Cage
It was late spring in Havana in 1969 when there was a knock on our door. There stood a short, elderly grey-haired gentleman whom we recognized after a moment as the doorman from the hotel we had stayed in some months earlier…
Bureaucratica
As a species, civil servants are not renowned for their sense of humour. The South Asian variety are, if anything, generally viewed as solemn, self-important bores so imbued with the nobility of their calling and their position in society that nothing would…
