January 22, 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 Superpowering the globe PRESENTED here is the most extensive compilation ever of serious post-second world war American interventions into the life of other nations... EXCERPTS: Cricket mania THE 1963-64 season was the second in succession with no Test cricket played in Pakistan. The season started with a visit by a Commonwealth team playing six first-class matches, three of them... EXCERPTS: Life in a Mughal harem THE Mughal ladies spent their entire lives inside the emperor’s harem. A feeling of awe and mystery even today fills one’s mind when one hears of the Mughal harem. Many things have been written... AUTHOR: Revealing the secrets STANLEY Wolpert is one of the most eminent chroniclers of South Asian history today. In Pakistan his name is synonymous with his ground-breaking biography, Jinnah of Pakistan but his general history... AUTHOR: Icon of Pushto literati AN excerpt from Zaitoon Bano’s short story “Ek annai ka baita” (Son for a coin), the narrative of a woman who was sold by her father for Rs2,500 when she was expecting her son. Her husband had... ARTICLES: Yes, it’s beyond belief I DON’T believe it!” V.S. Naipaul has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In the citation the awarding committee praises his writing on Islam and Muslims, particularly in non-Arab countries.... ARTICLES: Finding the words THERE’S something in the air in New York, and it’s not just particular to the collapsed World Trade Centre. The media corporations in the city have been sniffing the post 9/11 zeitgeist and deciding that what many might regard as an already supine... Weapons of peace YEARS ago, and long before the rest of the world woke up to the vicious extremism of the Taliban, the international women’s movement called attention to their shocking and systematic assault ... SYNDICATED: Bellow par THERE are wonderful things on almost every page of this book — lyrical, analytical portraits of people, landscapes physical and mental. What there is surprisingly little of, though, is a sense... SYNDICATED: Light up your life “WHY smoke?” asks this book, repeatedly. The answer would appear to be, as Iain Gately imagines a pre-Columban South American saying: “Because we are humans.” This may surprise the primates in... CHILDREN''S BOOK REVIEW: Wonders of the world HERE is a series of five children’s encyclopedia written and illustrated in Urdu. The subjects covered are the human body, lifestyles of people, plants and animals, the planet earth and science... CHILDREN''S BOOK REVIEW: Made with kid gloves IT has been tested and demonstrated through experiments that even small children are conscious of numbers and colours. According to psychologists children, though unable to communicate verbally, react with surprise and... CHILDREN''S BOOK REVIEW: Of love and peace IT’S difficult to find literature for children in Pakistan. And to find good literature is even more difficult. Amai’s wish is an illustrated book for children written against the backdrop of... REVIEW: Social sector versus the market SOCIAL welfare is outside the threshold of the market, which is about profit. But it is indispensable to the market, as the economy cannot reproduce itself without reproducing the labour power,... REVIEW: Making schools effective EDUCATED people are a valuable asset for a country. They contribute to the welfare of the people and the uplift of the economy. Moreover, the impact of schooling on a child’s... REVIEW: A taboo subject? DESPITE a cardinal fact of life, sex has always remained a taboo subject in our society and the country. Most people consider sex to be sacred or secret that is something... REVIEW: A bland life IN the last two decades a large number of autobiographies have been published. Usually these are accounts of the lives of senior military officers and bureaucrats. While in other countries academics,... REVIEW: Remembering courtesan culture WITH the publication of Mirza Mohammad Hadi Rusva’s Umrao Jan Ada at the end of the nineteenthth century, the modern Urdu novel had finally arrived. Back then (and even today) the... REVIEW: Square pegs, round holes THE three decades of the ‘20s to the ‘40s of the last century were of exceptional importance in the subcontinent’s contemporary history. Abdullah Malik’s autobiography, Purani mahfilein yaad aarahi hein, wades... REVIEW: Tales from east and west THE book Mashriq-o-maghrib kay afsanay carries 12 stories translated by Humra Khaleeq. In his foreword, Dr Mohammad Ali Siddiqui has introduced Humra as the scion of a literary family — her...

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