April 21, 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 Where do we go? HUNDREDS of thousands of people were on the road in Punjab within days of the official Partition and the massacres, the nightmares, those other partitions that people would have to live with for decades to come, had begun.... EXCERPTS: Why this disinterest? IN developed Western countries, teaching is only one of the functions of the university professors. Their other, and in some ways even more crucial, function is research. This covers all subjects and not just science and technology.... EXCERPTS: Cricket then, cricket now THE game is the same but there is no doubt in my mind that it has been drastically revolutionized within the last two decades with the introduction of a number of new rules and regulations, through sponsorship deals, the advent of satellite and cable television.... ARTICLES: Private versus public A REPORT on the public sector educational institutions in Karachi released by the city government is quite revealing. The most shocking information to emerge from this report is the extraordinarily high enrolment of children in private schools as compared to those attending government institutions. According to this report.... ARTICLES: Special reading for the special RECENTLY, the management of the magazine Special Pakistan organized functions in the provincial capitals in collaboration with the Directorate General of Special Education, Islamabad, to introduce its publication to readers... ARTICLES: A poet who wrote on economics: April 21 is Allama Iqbal’s death anniversary IQBAL, the poet and philosopher par excellence, has made incisive remarks or comments on economic and social issues in his poetry, philosophical writings and in the course of his discourses, as... AUTHOR: The rebel within her FAROGH Farrokhzad’s corpus of poems, fewer than two hundred, mostly short lyrics, are personal, and intimate and have established her as a first-rate modern Iranian poet. As a free spirit in the middle of the last century, when a new tradition of women intensely involved... AUTHOR: The lore of the sword “MY name is Michael and I write stories, and we are here to launch a book. Does that mean we’ll be putting it into the water and letting it float? Of... SYNDICATED: Her brilliant mistake THE dust jacket of this book shows Robert Tait’s intricately detailed, richly coloured painting of the two famous Carlyles at home, “A Chelsea interior” (1858). The Victorian sage looks hirsute and... SYNDICATED: Unchanging siren song IT was the “new era”. Like the origins of Jay Gatsby, “the lineage of the phrase remains elusive”. But it was certainly used in a speech by President Calvin Coolidge in November 1927 proclaiming that America was “entering upon a new era of prosperity”. As with “new economy” 70 years later... CHILDREN''S BOOK REVIEW: Women also work CHILDHOOD is that period in life when one takes in all impressions and believes what one sees and hears in order to learn and grow. The credulity of young children should... CHILDREN''S BOOK REVIEW: Witness to 1947 IT is nice to see the bookshelves filling up again with literature for children and it is no longer impossible to find interesting material for the young readers. In this context,... CHILDREN''S BOOK REVIEW: Poetic delights MUSHTAQUE Bukhari is a popular name in Sindhi children’s poetry. He is also a short story writer. His first collection of children’s poetry Geetan jahra bar was published in 1998 and won the Sindhi Adabi Sangat’s award. The book under review is his third collection, which has 33 poems and has a preface by the renowned Sindhi poet... REVIEW: Power to the poor IN his autobiography, the great philosopher Bertrand Russell has written about the three ‘overwhelmingly strong passions’ of his life; love, the search for knowledge, and ‘unbearable pity ‘ for the suffering... REVIEW: Is this the real Niazi? WHEN it comes to translations from one language into another there are two schools of thoughts. Some critics believe that a translator should not take the liberty of changing the accent, format, sense and spirit of the original and should avoid deviating from it. While others stress that the translator’s primary concern should be to preserve... REVIEW: The making of the Maharaja KHUSHWANT Singh is one of the most competent authorities on Sikh history, Sikhs, published in two volumes by Princeton University Press being his singular authoritative work on the subject. To this... REVIEW: How the rural poor work PROFESSOR Mahmood Hasan Khan from Simon Fraser Univeristy in Burnaby (Canada) has written a book which is quite different from the usual printed material one comes across on development. It is not theoretical or academic. Hence it would attract quite a readership. Professor Khan’s contribution to an analysis of the agricultural... REVIEW: Richness of their lives NO person can rise to the heights of glory without having imbibed a grain of madness. To whom can this saying be applied more aptly than William James Durant, the great...

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