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At 11:05, the blast of a horn breaks the silence of the sea. Then comes the sound of agitated instructions flying from the bows to the sterns, and first-time sailing dogs onboard bark with excitement. Our boat has taken the prime starting spot, but another one with a shiny blue hull edges past and overtakes us. To our left is a boat that seems to be struggling just to move. “There’s no wind on the left,” Allen spots this and immediately shouts to the front. “Just go for speed; don’t spin.” Loik Morgant, a seasoned sailor on Freedom, and his shipmate Her keep sprinting back and fo...

March 7, 2021 Tariq Rahman presents a panoramic survey of the march of the idea of jihad in South Asia over the last 500 years Dr Tariq Rahman, dean at the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, is back with another publication. When I wrote a review of his book From Hindi to Urdu, I compared him with the Australian journalist John Gunther who had written a series of books in the 1960s including Inside Russia and Inside Asia, for which he was called the Inside Man. Taking a cue from the description, I had called Dr Rahman the Language Man as he has written a whole series of books on vari...