February 12, 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 More than just communicating Language-learning is empowering for individuals and groups. The group which is exclusively dependent upon the manipulation of the written word... EXCERPTS: A turn to modernity The popular image of a rural consumer is of one who has limited educational background, is exposed to limited products and brands... EXCERPTS: The morning of the change On Thompson Street where I live, blocks from the World Trade Centre, I stepped out of my building on the morning the world changed to discover the street... ARTICLE: Hardy, the poet-novelist The works of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) can best be understood as an indivisible expression of the poet-novelist. Just as his lyrical poetry reverberates with the rhythms of country dances, rural tunes... ARTICLES: Textbooks and the jihadi mindset A report prepared by the Centre for Information and Research (CIR) at SZABIST, Karachi, is quite an eye-opener. Intrigued by the growth of intolerance and violence in a society which had... ARTICLES: The felling of a literary legend People die the way businesses go bankrupt — gradually, then suddenly. That is also true of Dame Iris Murdoch succumbing to Alzheimer’s disease in Richard Eyre’s beautifully acted film about her... AUTHOR: Dr Muhammad Umar Memon: The sage and the translator I recently met Muhammad Umar Memon after almost a decade and a half. Luckily this time, we had some hours together all by ourselves, instead of the minutes on telephone... AUTHOR: Hanif Kureishi: Putting life into fiction Hanif Kureishi is not a name unfamiliar to Pakistani readers of modern fiction. We may try and claim him as being partly our own, but such an assertion will not hold... SYNDICATED: The ultimate high There is a climbing book I would like to read. Call it The joy of climbing. It would be an optimistic book about pleasure, not pain; about companionship and beauty. It... SYNDICATED: Study in sympathy What is it about Gustave Flaubert that authenticates the old cliche, “larger than life”? Enchanted with her new friend, after his first visit in 1869, George Sand flattered Flaubert with this... REVIEWS (ENGLISH): From sentiment to structure Dipankar Gupta is professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. In this book he analyzes the concept of culture... REVIEWS (ENGLISH): Focus on Europe This publication is a compilation of papers and speeches read at a seminar on European Union-Asia relations held in October 2001 by Karachi University’s Area Study Centre for Europe. A major... REVIEWS (ENGLISH): Still the white man’s burden? The ‘pluralism versus assimilation’ debate has raged in the US for nearly 200 years. In his new book The death of the West: how dying populations and immigrant invasions imperil our... REVIEWS (ENGLISH): In search of nirvana Karen Armstrong’s Buddha should have been more appropriately entitled Buddhism since the book deals more with Buddhism than with Buddha. If not the title, the content does justice to Buddha’s philosophy... REVIEWS (ENGLISH): A bizarre life The reason why uneasy lies the head that wears the crown is that it teems with megalomaniac ideas. Jahangir, the great-grandson of the Mughal adventurer Babur, must have cut a strange... REVIEWS (URDU & REGIONAL): When the mountain cried The publication of this book could not have been more timely. As the armies of the two nuclear powers of South Asia face each other on their vulnerable frontiers, it is...

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