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Prof Spivak has authored several books and her latest include Other Asias and An aesthetic education in an era of globalization.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1140330\/giving-money-or-equipment-without-training-does-not-qualify-as-humanistic\" target=\"_blank\">Read full article here<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: \u201cDo not accuse, do not excuse,\u201d said postcolonial thinker and scholar Prof Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak during her keynote address on the problem of higher education in the subcontinent at the daylong \u2018Postcolonial higher education conference\u2019 organised by the Habib University here on Saturday. 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