December 25, 2001 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors. This page is updated every Sunday. For current issue Click here EXCERPTS: 125 years ago, today Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who was born on December 25, 1876, emerged as a powerful force on the Indian political scene in the first half of the twentieth century. Although his... ARTICLES: The founding papers It is no secret that for a nation to be progressive and forward-looking, it must go back to its past. While monuments and museums built in the honour of founding fathers... WEBSITE REVIEW: The man who mattered In the absence in our country of public libraries worth the name, the internet seems to be the place where differing points of view of an historical event or personality could... ARTICLES: Jinnah: making of a myth Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah had all the qualities and characteristics in his personality which go into the making of a myth. He was reticent, reserved, kept his personal matters secret, behaved... ARTICLES: Iqbal’s economic thoughts 2002 has been declared the year of Iqbal. While a lot will be said and written on his life and times, philosophy and poetry during the year... AUTHOR: Ayesha Jalal: Questioning orthodoxies Ayesha Jalal, MacArthur Fellow/Professor of History at Tufts University Medford, is the author of The sole spokesman (1985). When the book was first published it was seen as questioning ruling orthodoxies... SYNDICATED: Heathcliff tamed In one of his earliest poems, Ted Hughes describes the martyrdom of Bishop Farrar, who when burned at the stake by his Catholic enemies stubbornly kept the faith:... SYNDICATED: Choose your enemy Nobody starts a war, Clausewitz wrote, “or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so, without being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war... REVIEWS (ENGLISH): Caught in a time warp Herbert Feldman spent three decades in Pakistan, from its birth till his own death in the late 70s. A prolific writer, he penned, from his keenly perceptive perch, a copious trilogy... REVIEWS (ENGLISH): Lifting the Veil For women writers of the subcontinent, Ismat Chughtai was no less than a stroke of good luck. They owe her their release from a culture of prudery that did not allow... REVIEWS (ENGLISH): The spiritual guide The great sufi poet of the Persian language, Jalalud Din Rumi (1207-1273), has had a tremendous influence on the sufi poets of Pakistan, such as Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, Bulleh Shah,... REVIEWS(URDU & REGIONAL): Celebrating hard times If Camilo Jose Cela and Gabriel Garcia Marquez sit at the top of the modern Spanish novel theogony, there are many demigods, too, who are churning out magical mantras in this... REVIEWS(URDU & REGIONAL): Muslims and the West The book under review is the translation of Bernard Lewis’ book, The Muslim discovery of Europe by Masood Ash’ar. Bernard Lewis is a highly respected and widely recognized authority on Islam... REVIEWS(URDU & REGIONAL): Radio’s Talqeen Shah In the early years of Pakistan’s existence, the radio was extensively used as a tool for social change and an instrument for creating awareness among the masses. In a country where...

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