March 10, 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 Fodder to tease friends Khushwant Singh recalls his encounters in Pakistan where he met Tikka Khan on one visit and reported Z.A.Bhutto’s hanging on another... EXCERPTS: Mystery of Imran’s ten THANKS to television, each of those ten wickets Imran got he took twice over again in slow motion, and each showing was more mystifying than the one before.... EXCERPTS: Is there an Islamic state? THE Islamic state is the most discussed subject both among supporters as well as among its detractors. Is there any such concept? Can we call any state an Islamic state... ARTICLES: The theme of alienation THE fundamental basis of modern civilization is a secular philosophy of life that goes back to the renaissance. This remarkable phase of human history... ARTICLES: Right to information THE HRCP’s conference on the right to information was well timed. With the Pakistan government believed to be working on a law on this subject, the authorities... AUTHOR: Poet of feminine emotions “SOME people say that in the poetry of this girl, there is little but the laughter of falling water, the smile of flowers, the songs of birds and her own romantic... AUTHOR: Trusting the times T. Litt: It’s a boy book. I came across this book in the library on the campus at UEA [University of East Anglia]. I was looking through the American literature section... SYNDICATED: The Jedi knight of DNA ON the walls of London’s National Portrait Gallery hangs one particularly unusual work of art: rows of glistening transparent beads are spread out in a cloudy... SYNDICATED: Apartheid and the Villa Vanilla CHRISTOPHER Hope may have spent almost half his life abroad, but in his writing he has seldom strayed beyond the borders of his native South Africa. Heaven forbid, his latest novel, is no exception and counterpoints a small boy’s trauma at his mother’s remarriage with the National Party’s 1948 election victory and the birth of apartheid.... REVIEW: From the frontline THE saying ‘truth is stranger than fiction’ may be a cliche, but like all cliches it has a ring of truth to it. The noted Indian journalist Anita Pratap, who was... REVIEW: Behind the veil MY forbidden face is a story of a young Afghan girl who grew up under the Taliban. Her voice echoes her determination to live in freedom and hope. Latifa (not her real name) was sixteen when the Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul in 1996. She became a prisoner in her own home.... REVIEW: Why this decline WHAT went wrong in the decline of the Islamic world from its pre-eminent position in the Middle Ages to its current status of virtual political and economic servitude to the West... REVIEW: A way with words PICTURE this is a poetic treat from Alhamra. This is a collection of poems by Ilona Yusuf who is not a poet entirely by accident. Raised in Lahore, she imbibed the music and verse which her literary mother treasured from her English upbringing. Arriving in Lahore as a young wife, Mrs Butt was putting down roots for the second time.... REVIEW: Not a barren land THE Great Indian Desert or the registan (or biyaban) of Thar has, according to received wisdom, effectively divided Sindh from Hind throughout history. The existence... REVIEW: The pilot who became politician IT is difficult to imagine the life of so colourful a man as United States senator and presidential candidate John S. McCain to be expounded in a compact volume of less than three hundred pages. Ex-Navy officer Robert Timberg, however, does a masterful job in taking the readers from the mundane childhood of the subject, through the... REVIEW: Exposing America IT is just a coincidence that this critique of US foreign policy appeared in the market after 9/11. It was translated a couple of years ago but by the time it... REVIEW: Families that failed THIS is a collection of short stories that deal with those aspects of life that are gradually becoming a thing of the past. In almost every story, the author succeeds in capturing the interest of the reader. The stories revolve round family life as they project characters struggling with hard times, or changes brought in their lives by sudden... REVIEW: A ghazal writer all the way WHATEVER its detractors may have to say, the ghazal remains the darling of Urdu poetry. It is an all embracing genre and despite the limited space in its verses, it can...

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