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THIS WEEK'S SHOW: August 6, 2026
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey

A "blockbuster version of Moby-Dick" with "moral qualms about the whaling industry."

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, 2011
Saad Haroon: Pakistan as a bad Bollywood comedy

Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Saad Haroon (22 minutes, 11 mb mp3) KARACHI — Dying is easy, as the old comedian could have said about Karachi today. It’s...
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, 2011
Shahrukh Hasan: The Peace That Could Save Pakistan

Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Shahrukh Hasan (25 minutes, 13 mb mp3) KARACHI — Shahrukh Hasan is a Pakistani media mogul who’s made peace with India his personal,...
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, 2011
The Fisherfolk of Karachi: a Parable of Pakistan

Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Mohammed Ali Shah (16 minutes, 8 mb mp3) Mohammad Ali Shah, Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum KARACHI — We are taking the fishermen’s measure of...
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, 2011
Dr. Geet: Yankee doc, speaking Sindhi, in the flood zone

Dr. Geet Chainani at medical camp in a village near Dadu, Sindh [Photo via Beena Sarwar] Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Dr. Geet Chainani (18 minutes, 9 mb...
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, 2011
Mohammed Hanif: the Explosive Case of Karachi

Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Mohammed Hanif (36 minutes, 18 mb mp3) KARACHI — Mohammed Hanif, prize novelist of A Case of Exploding Mangoes (2008), is piercing a...
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, 2011
Pratap Mehta: Pakistan’s Perpetual Identity Crisis

Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Pratap Bhanu Mehta (30 minutes, 14 mb mp3) Pratap Bhanu Mehta, a political theorist and intellectual historian based in New Delhi, is leading...
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, 2011
India-Pakistan: Vazira Zamindar on the raw wound of Partition

Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Vazira Zamindar. (30 minutes, 16 mb mp3) Time April 22, 1946: “MOHAMED ALI JINNAH: His Moslem tiger wants to eat the Hindu cow”...
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, 2011
David Rohde’s Taliban Captivity

What's the moral of one reporter's kidnapping?

What can Taliban captivity do to a man’s judgment, even to his soul? It made David Rohde root for the CIA’s drone missiles buzzing on the horizon, even when his...
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, 2011
Mohammed Hanif’s Af-Pak: A Case of Exploding Absurdities

Somebody said: if you’re an intelligent Islamic militant and you had a choice: to take over either Afghanistan or Pakistan, what would you do? You would take over Pakistan, obviously....
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, 2010
Najam Sethi: A Pakistani Prescription for Af-Pak Peace

Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Najam Sethi (36 minutes, 18 mb mp3) Photo: Juliana Friend Najam Sethi is the man any of us would want to know in...
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, 2010
Pakistan 3.0: The "CIA Jihad" and the Whirlwind Today

Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Pervez Hoodbhoy (34 minutes, 17 mb mp3) It is well known that the term ‘Pakistan’, an acronym, was originally thought up in England...
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, 2010
Daniyal Mueenuddin on Pakistan: At the Bedside of a Friend

Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Daniyal Mueenuddin (45 minutes, 22 mb mp3) Daniyal Mueenuddin is the leading light of Pakistan’s literary boom in the English-speaking world. Just in...
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, 2010
William Dalrymple: the Af-Pak Fiasco "on its last legs"

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with William Dalrymple. (49 minutes, 22 mb mp3) William Dalrymple is drawing on a deep well of personal and imperial history in his stark...
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, 2010
This "Year of India" (6): What’s Wrong with our Afghan War

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Siddharth Varadarajan. (30 minutes, 18 mb mp3) The dirty little secret of the US drone war in Afghanistan is that the civilian “kill...
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, 2010
This "Year of India" (5): … and the chronic crisis of Pakistan

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Farzana Shaikh (38 min, 17 mb mp3) Salman Rushdie, no less, finished his packed public talk at Brown three weeks ago with the...