March 31, 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 Crime and punishment CULTURE shapes the conditions under which we attribute responsibility and blame to individuals whose acts result in harmful consequences, even though there may be high... EXCERPTS: Faces and places THE hotel sits on a hill top overlooking the city of Kabul. The taxi driver thought the place would be suitable for a visitor from America. On that cold November evening the hotel appeared much colder... EXCERPTS: Strange bedfellows POLITICAL and academic opinion is quite clearly divided into a pro-globalization and an anti-globalization camp. And Indian radicalism is largely identified with the latter. The more strident ... ARTICLES: Awards, awards and more awards THE National Book Critics Circle award for fiction went to the acclaimed German novelist W.G. Sebald, who was killed in a car crash in December last year. He won it for... ARTICLES: Virtual University THE Virtual University launched by the president is in principle a welcome move. After having been on the cards for some time, this institution which began functioning last week is expected... ARTICLES: Rahman Baba: a painter of thoughts RAHMAN Baba was a poet of outstanding creative power and literary skill, having composed such poetry that has been the soul of Pakhtoon society for over three centuries.... ARTICLES: Obsession with poetry THE year 2001 witnessed a new trend in Balochi publications — the unprecedented rise in the number of literary quarterlies. Almost a dozen quarterlies including Shipank, Malgor, Drud, Roach, Gonap, Gohar,... ARTICLES: Bric bracs at the book fair TENSIONS between France and Italy came to a boil last week as French Culture Minister Catherine Tasca attempted to inaugurate the Salon du Livre book fair whose special guest this year... AUTHOR: Man with many hats EVEN though Shehzad Ahmed is not a physicist, he understands Dr Abdus Salam’s Nobel awarded theory of relativity. His precision-oriented translation of the Nobel laureate’s work, Ideals and realities, is the... SYNDICATED: Clean hands, grimy prospects THE events of 1992-93 lie at the heart of Paul Ginsborg’s new history of Italy in the past two decades. And the legacy of those tumultuous years is still the central... SYNDICATED: Nine pounds of pleasure THE Warner Brothers director Mervyn LeRoy wanted to make a film of Hervey Allen’s blockbuster Anthony adverse and cabled the studio’s boss to ask if he’d read the book yet. “Read... REVIEW: Master of jungle lore JIM Corbett, the famous British-Indian game hunter, was famed for killing terrifying man-eating tigers in the jungles of India, then turning naturalist and authoring several well-known books about his adventures as... REVIEW: Knowledge is power THE liberation of the oppressed classes from the shackles of ignorance through empowerment is a goal set by governments and NGOs alike in the third world. They have been working around... REVIEW: Spokesman of the wretched NOT long ago Fanon’s name stirred people’s souls. His The wretched of the earth was compulsory reading for blacks, leftists and anti-colonialists of all hues, particularly in the third world. Now,... REVIEW: Survivors remember THIS is an extraordinary book, about the most extraordinary event of our times, the terrorist “attack on America” on September 11, 2001. It assembles the impressions and recollections of a large... REVIEW: Dr Kissinger’s realpolitik AFTER the opus Diplomacy and the three voluminous tomes of his memoirs, Henry Kissinger’s latest book may appear slight both in size and in substance. However it is significant in that...

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