April 28, 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 Banished for ever NATIONALISMS are about groups, but in a very acute sense exile is a solitude experienced outside the group: the deprivations felt at not being with others in the communal habitation. How, then, does one surmount the loneliness of exile... EXCERPTS: Is life so cheap? THE past half-century has seen four international wars, eighteen armed internal conflicts, and countless low-level insurgencies as well as civilian unrest in South Asia. A conservative estimate suggests that turmoil in this troubled region has... EXCERPTS: Here comes the catch PALOLEM is the southern-most large beach of Goa, somewhat untouched by regular tourist traffic. It is approached from Canacona (pronounced as Kankon in the local language) on the highway to Karwar, about an hour’s ride... ARTICLES: Whitewashing history IN its recent report on education in Southeast Asia, Time magazine describes the phenomenon of “textbook whitewashing”. It focuses mainly on Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and other countries in the region which control the textbooks taught in their schools. This is not something new. As Time says “history textbooks.... ARTICLES: On language and translation TRANSLATORS make us hear voices made in languages foreign to our own. It is through them that we listen and learn and our own expression gets enriched. Imagine what the world... ARTICLES: Information that comes handy IN 1881 when the nine-volume Imperial Gazetteer saw the light of day “it was immediately accepted as an authoritative and comprehensive study of India in all the richness of her life... ARTICLES: Life after history FRANCIS Fukuyama was not the first to announce the End of history in his famous book. Others, who desired the perpetuation of the status quo — because it suited them —... ARTICLES: Pearl in a deal MARIANE Pearl, wife of Daniel Pearl of The Wall Street Journal, who was kidnapped and killed while he was reporting from Pakistan, is writing her memoirs. Scribner, the publishing house, has... AUTHOR: Researching on his feet AT 65 when most people would hang up their boots and walk into the sunset, the eminent broadcaster and writer Raza Ali Abidi is leading a busy and fruitful life. He... SYNDICATED: New Gauls, please JULIAN Barnes’s most celebrated novels — Flaubert’s parrot and The history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters — are not really novels, they are stylized essays in which Barnes excels... SYNDICATED: Nine murders to report ORRIBLE murder in Whitechapel read all about it”. The cliche of the newspaper boy’s shout is still used to evoke the atmosphere of nineteenth century London. Reporting sensational crime was a commonplace even in the eighteenth century, but the unfolding of a crime story was possible only because of the development... REVIEW: Kashmir: the Indian view SELF-righteousness, in varying degrees, is to be found in almost all writings on Kashmir by Indians and Pakistanis. The present volume is no exception. However, it differs from the usual Indian... REVIEW: Learning from experience BUILDING women’s capacities seeks to document contemporary experiences of development practitioners who are working to empower women from marginalized classes and sensitize men to gender issues.... REVIEW: Now for the pioneers PERSONALITY pays. The impetus to change surroundings is the mysterious ‘plus’ distinguishing leaders from followers. Green pioneers, the book under review, relates the stories of twenty social innovators. They are men... REVIEW: Ode to war THE main thesis of Robert Kaplan’s new book Warrior politics: why leadership demands a pagan ethos is what ancient historians and thinkers have to teach contemporary American leaders about conducting foreign... REVIEW: Poetic reflections THERE is little or no planning involved in poetry. It is basically a vision, which is projected into written words through the thought process. Unlike philosophy, which depends on a series...

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