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‘Standing in a room with eight thousand tiny creatures, witnessing them perform a dance that few humans even knew occurred; this was life. Everywhere she looked, each caterpillar nosed the air like a wand and out passed silk. They sashayed to the left and swivelled to the right. They bobbed and undulated, dotting the air in figure-eights. They worked ceaselessly for three days and nights, with material entirely of their own, and with nothing to ...
The paleantologist Zahoor is trying to do his research while General Zia is launching a campaign to Islamise knowledge. Science is being rewritten and called Islamic Science. The teaching of evolution is banned. Nothing is natural or accidental; everything is â revealedâ and â ordained. On a fossil dig in the Salt Range of the Punjab, an area that once lay beneath the Tethys Sea, Zahoorâ;s granddaughter, Amal, finds proof of the dog-whaleâ;. No one knows it ...