March 24, 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 A new vision GIVEN this reading of the Oslo accords, the Israeli government’s reaction to the Al Aqsa intifada is completely understandable. Neither the Labour nor the Likud governments have any intention... EXCERPTS: Feasting the eyes BABUR, the founder of the Mughal dynasty, himself was a poet and a remarkable writer as well as campaigner with an untiring spirit of adventure. During his rule of four years (1526-31), he constructed... ARTICLES: Commemoration through the ages THE battle of Karbala has formed the subject of much writing in both prose and poetry in many eastern languages. But surprisingly one rarely comes across any reference to this important... ARTICLES: The attendance imbroglio THE Karachi Board of Intermediate Education has been caught up in a controversy over attendance shortfalls of HSC candidates. According to the rules, students with less than 75 per cent attendance... ARTICLES: Dangerous to be a tall poppy in India YOU are a Booker prize-winning novelist about to appear in court on charges of contempt, for which you may be jailed. Do you a) spend the day at home cowering in fear, or b) go out and buy a pair of joke plastic spectacles... AUTHOR: Recording the war NUHA al-Radi is a vibrant, outspoken, much-travelled Iraqi artist, who loves rich colours, wears flowers in her hair and speaks with passion and commitment about the senselessness of war and the... AUTHOR: Journalist or writer? IAN Mather, who visited Pakistan last week to conduct workshops on investigative journalism, tells me that he is basically a journalist and not a writer. But then he doesn’t disown his... SYNDICATED: Behind the legend THERE never was such a hero as Admiral Lord Nelson, the flawed national treasure who could, as Terry Coleman points out, be “feted and feasted ... ridiculed and caricatured” at one... SYNDICATED: Little monsters... ‘FERAL’ is one of the great Australian adjectives — a term of affectionate abuse but also a taxonomically exact definition of the state of nature in all its rank wilfulness. Every... REVIEW: On the road to freedom THE nation’s voice is a series of volumes containing all that Jinnah ever said and wrote. Jinnah kept no diary and has left no notes. The only source, therefore, to fathom... REVIEW: In full cry MENTAL illness has always been an enigmatic issue in most societies. The ancient Chinese, Egyptians and Greeks attributed mental illness to demonological factors. Among the Hebrews, it was believed that a... REVIEW: Time for rethinking AT a time of broad reassessment of security, business and other policies, six Yale University scholars and practitioners of international affairs, joined by two other leading scholars in international relations, security... REVIEW: Shattering portrait YET another historical novel in keeping with the recent trend. This time the period is not typically some country and couple dealing with upheavals during any of the two world wars... REVIEW: Alienated intellectuals EDWARD Said is an eclectic writer, scholar and concerned citizen. He writes with humanistic compassion and covers every subject in which an activist would participate for making this world a better... REVIEW: Exploited & oppressed IN just 13 pages, Ahmad Saleem records the class conflict in the “age-old village” of interior Punjab — Miana Gondal. The creeping change in this village has come in the shape of transistors, tape recorders, dish antennas and sophisticated agricultural equipment. There are schools for boys and girls, and now soon, perhaps, a college for boys.... REVIEW: Whither spiritual fervour? RENE Guenon belonged to that group of twentieth-century thinkers who were thoroughly dissatisfied with modernism but, unlike Nietzsche and his ilk, who declared God to be dead, opted to side with...

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