February 23, 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 Images and reality About 12 years ago I had an opportunity to look at a UNESCO-sponsored study on the space newspapers in India and Pakistan gave to news from each other’s country.... EXCERPTS: Gone to return again In December 1857, John began the first leg of what would constitute a tour of the Punjab by escorting Harriette and the babies to Multan... EXCERPTS: Pushed behind the veil An overwhelming majority of women in Afghanistan are illiterate and know little about the Islamic faith. They rely upon men to interpret religion and their role within it and within society to them.... ARTICLES: Sparking a cultural controversy The Nobel literature prize winner V.S. Naipaul may have provoked another row by claiming that 40 years ago people in India were not intellectual enough to read his books. Sir Vidia,... ARTICLES: Restless soul at rest I knew her as a mother whose life and literary pursuits were an open book for me to read. Today Zahina Tahir, as she was known to the world, rests among... ARTICLE: Urdu’s new dawn in the West Urdu, which as a language and medium of mass communication has had a chequered, if not tortured, evolution since its birth nearly four centuries ago, has now reached new geographical horizons.... ARTICLE: The road to Kabul In the hospital were two Arab women, so the Chief of Security of Jalalabad informed me. Many of the Arabs in Afghanistan had either married Arab or Afghan women. Where are... AUTHOR: Abdul Ghani Khan: Pilgrim of beauty In 1921, Bacha Khan founded the Anjuman-i-al-Islah-i-Afghana with the idea of introducing social changes in the life of the Pakhtoons. The basic goal of the organization was to eliminate enmity from... SYNDICATED: Monarchy in the UK Robert Lacey’s Majesty, published 25 years ago to mark the 1977 Silver Jubilee, made its author a rich man. By obligingly reigning for another quarter century, the Queen has offered Lacey... REVIEWS (ENGLISH): Stress is stressful The author is a senior fellow and a visiting faculty at the Institute of Management Studies at Varanasi, India. Her book is a paperback of 281 pages on the subject of... REVIEWS (ENGLISH): Translation with a heart Readable English translations of classical Urdu works are rare at best. The two books from different genres — poetry and prose — under review here fall into this category. Luckily, they... REVIEWS (ENGLISH): Once a fair city Delhi always appears to me as a cross-cultural quilt, made up of many, many individually patterned pieces joined together by perhaps nothing more than a leap of imagination. Naturally, the city... REVIEWS (ENGLISH): Joining the global economy Sartre — wondering at the firm adherence of the French workers to the communist party, reasoned that they accepted the philosophy — had no such effect on Dr Mahnaz Fatima, Associate... REVIEWS (ENGLISH): Agony of 900 days Helen Dunmore has written eight first-rate novels exploring the intricacies of contemporary family life but now she has gone for something completely different and one can imagine the conversation she must... REVIEWS(URDU & REGIONAL): Personal perspectives Majaalis-i-Iqbal, is a collection of articles, interviews and discussion sessions with Iqbal of persons from different strata of life comprising politicians, students, literati, some very close and intimate friends, and even... REVIEWS(URDU & REGIONAL): Tragedy of life Anwer Abro is a versatile and experienced writer. An engineer by profession, he has made literature and journalism his true passion and writes poetry, short stories and literary criticism while participating...

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