March 17, 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 Great game, once more THE US oil companies were amongst the first international groups to realize the importance of the region. Even before the United States had established embassies in each of the new republics, major US oil companies had arrived... EXCERPTS: Did curiosity kill Pearl? WHAT is a journalist’s function supposed to be? Isn’t it to gather information and disseminate it through the medium he is working for? The more conscientious and enterprising a reporter is the greater will be his endeavour to probe and investigate to unearth the truth. The more knowledgeable and articulate he is, the more skilful... ARTICLES: Healing touch of writers THE ever-renewing legacy of violence and divisions, the shadows of partitions hanging overhead, bickering conflicts, unresolved issues from the past gathering force to shape and distort the future... SYNDICATED: Poetic justice DAVID Crane’s biography of the great poet’s wife begins — satisfyingly ghoulishly — in a crypt on the night of June 15, 1938 when a curious vicar decided to open Byron’s... ARTICLES: Poetry rules the roost WITH the middle-class Punjabis still not in a mood to own their language and its rich literary heritage, the publishing world has suffered in terms of the quality of books produced.... AUTHOR: Vibrations of courage TALAT Abbasi is an intensely private person, who has also become a public one. In an age where the media reigns and lay-your-heart-bare publicity is coveted, Talat, though appreciative of recognition,... REVIEW: 1984 comes to life in 2001 GEORGE Orwell’s seminal satire, Nineteen eighty-four, on the decaying English society of the mid-20th century, was in imminent danger of “losing its shelf-life”, as one of his critics described it... REVIEW: That mysterious force ONE problem in defending Pakistan’s ideological character is the risk one runs of being identified with those who tend to give it an obscurantist interpretation. During the Ziaul Haq regime, for... REVIEW: What a time it was, boy! THERE is no stopping time. It will always go by. However, in Omar Kureishi’s As time goes by, you see his fascinating world going by. Kureishi is a commentator. Here, too,... REVIEW: Versifying one’s life IT was a strange phenomenon that the princely state of Hyderabad, Deccan, produced a number of progressive writers and poets who emerged from the conventional and obsolete traditions of an... In brief ASER Sultanpuri, who is quite well known for his elegies, has devoted himself to this genre of poetry since the early years of his poetic career. The volume under review contains his best work, depicting “the sunset glow soaked in blood”. In these words he recalls the great tragedy of Karbala. Each of the 12 elegies in the book... REVIEW: Poignantly written SHERSHAH Syed, who is a doctor with a social conscience, is a writer as well. He is sensitive to the urban environment as a citizen of the volatile city of Karachi. He has been witness to the growing intolerance in our society and finds it agonizing to live with it.....

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