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| | Jan2001Tehelka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | For that is how it happened: Kamila Shamsie, back home in Karachi on holiday from her teaching assignment at Hamilton College in upstate New York, is sitting in front of her computer screen, mesmerized, typing furiously, the last pages of her novel, “Salt and Saffron”. |
 | | In the city by the sea (which also happens to be the title of her first novel) she brings Karachi to life with such deftness that it makes the city, known for its mohajirs and crime and Bhuttos instantly human. |
 | | Karachi is less than an hour away by flight, yet it seems as far as if it is in another universe, given the tragic fact of the Partition. |
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