An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

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Loses 5-3 against Mohammad Sajjad, who booked an all-Punjab quarter-final clash against Mohammad Naseem Akhtar.

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The name Allama Iqbal, formally known as Sir Muhammad Iqbal, is undoubtedly familiar in the realm of poetry. He was renowned as a distinguished Muslim writer and philosopher, and celebrated as ...

Iqbal’s poetry reached the politicians as well as the masses. While Sarojini Naidu had called Iqbal the ‘poet laureate of Asia’, Jawahar Lal Nehru in his book, Discovery of India, had written about ...

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