Of pearls and pecks of straw : recollections, essays, after-thoughts /
Iqbal Akhund.
- First edition.
- Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2017
- xxvii, 227 p. : illustrations (some in color) ; 22 cm
Machine generated contents note: 1. `The past disappeared in one stroke ...' -- 2. `Where are such men ...?' -- 3. Time, like a dark wind ... -- 4. `Wa raqs mi kunad ...' -- 5. forgotten page -- 6. journey of which I knew not the destination -- 7. Reshmi Rumaal -- 8. Purdah -- 9. Emancipation -- 10. Westernization -- 11. Paris of the East -- 12. Leftovers -- 13. Solitary, not lonely ... -- 14. Homebodies -- 15. Tiffin carriers and hold-alls -- 16. East is East and West is West -- 17. Show-pang -- 18. demon drink -- 19. School -- 20. Joe, Jim, Jam -- 21. Two Nations -- 22. Pakistan ka matlab kya -- 23. Urdish/Hindlish -- 24. Feudal interlude -- 25. Veracity, loyalty, modesty -- 26. When France was France -- 27. And yet ... -- 28. Sole superpower -- 29. Latvia -- 30. Law of the jungle -- 31. Unusual encounters.