January 8, 2002 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors. This page is updated every Sunday. For current issue Click here Will mankind survive? THE reason Star Trek is so popular is because it is a safe and comforting vision of the future. I’m a bit of a Star Trek fan myself, so I was easily persuaded to take part in an episode in which I played... EXCERPTS: Protecting the people THE social protection that a country provides for its citizens through a series of measures against the economic and social distress resulting from sickness and death of an income-earner, unemployment... EXCERPTS: South Asian triangle SINCE Independence, India and Pakistan have periodically sought to improve relations, but progress has been disappointing. In the early 1990s, as tensions grew in the Kashmir valley following the end... ARTICLES: Paris’ literary wonder PAUL Michaud reports from Paris about the book, which became France’s surprise bestseller. Until early last year, few French publishers had heard of the most wanted man in the world, Osama... ARTICLES: The bridge of e-learning AFTER 50 years of fighting over Kashmir, the Indian and Pakistani governments haven’t just devastated a beautiful land and folk, but also prevented both countries from emerging from poverty.... AUTHOR: Making people think THE response to Professor Noam Chomsky’s visit to Pakistan in November 2001 was too overwhelming for words. Chomsky is known to be a crowd-puller in the United States and elsewhere —... AUTHOR: Poet who was president LEOPOLD Sedar Senghor, the great statesman and poet, who was also president of his native Senegal during its first twenty years of independence, died at his residence in Verson, France, at... SYNDICATED: Sticking it out in the cold MOST people know two things about Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition of 1911-12. One is Captain Oates saying, “I am just going outside, and may be some time”; the other... SYNDICATED: Immaterial girl A VERY odd and lovely little book I own, called I dream of Madonna, collects women’s accounts of the nights the all-singing all-dancing all-provoking cultural beacon set up camp in their... REVIEW: Outlaw icon of Australia THE renaissance in Australian literature began with Patrick White who won the weighty Nobel Prize in 1973. Since then the country has produced a small band of gifted authors who have... REVIEW: Live healthy, be happy THE quality of our lives hinges upon how fit we keep ourselves. This is a fact to which a lot of people never pay any attention. They just live from day... REVIEW: Troubled journey to nationhood NATION-building is a complex phenomenon. It involves socio-political and economic processes, institutions, groups and individuals and their interaction with each other and with the external environment against the backdrop of historical... REVIEW: Last days of united Pakistan AHMED Salim’s book is a collection of the personal impressions of leaders from Bengal and West Pakistan, press statements and excerpts from official documents. Instead of providing some clear answers about... REVIEW: Pakistan’s nemesis AFGHANISTAN is an enigma in the world community. It is Pakistan’s quagmire, a legacy of the British imperial times. The Durand Line divides the Pakhtuns into two international entities. The war... REVIEW: A medley of ideas GOING through the thoughts and observations of other people is usually a delightful experience, particularly so if the writer is a knowledgeable person with a wide range of interests. Sometimes, freshness... REVIEW: Ghalib to the rescue MIRZA Asadullah Khan Ghalib would not have had the faintest idea of the amazing dimension of his creative genius. All his life he remained a much maligned person. Many of his...

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