one needs to recall that a doctor does not have to suffer from
a brain tumor or bleeding piles to treat those conditions
Marc Bloch: a historian needs thicker boots and thinner notebooks (boots alluding to actual field visit. encouraging the historian to move away from his/her usual haunt in the archive) On 2/8/07, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for your comments. I did what I thought needed to be done. But regarding the "haven't travelled to Pakistan" - one needs to recall that a doctor does not have to suffer from a brain tumor or bleeding piles to treat those conditions. That is the basic premise of a review of the literature. My book is an invitation for anyone to find and review positive and flattering literature about Pakistan and write a book. The field is wide open. shiv On Thursday 08 Feb 2007 2:50 pm, ashok _ wrote: > i downloaded it, and i skimmed through a few chapters... admittedly i > didnt read it from cover to cover. my preliminary opinion was this: > -the book had a significant taint of bias > -the writer has not traveled to pakistan, but collected an > aggregation of largely (negative) journalistic opinions about > pakistan-and made general sweeping conclusions on the basis of that - > which is believe is a critical flaw. > > it could be possible to come up with a similar book about any country > in the world, by collecting enough literature to favor a point of > view. it just makes it easier in the case of pakistan because it is a > country in a particularly chaotic part of the world. > > On 2/8/07, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/3/07, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have said on and off that I had been working on a book about > > > Pakistan. A couple of silklisters have seen early drafts of the book. > > > > > > The book is now online as a freely downloadable and distributable ebook > > > on > > > > > > http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/EBOOK/pfs.pdf > > > > Thanks for the link, I've just downloaded the book. Did anyone else > > get a chance to read this? > > > > Cheeni
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