May 19, 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 Not a political animal THE law and order situation continuously deteriorated during the weeks which followed the collapse of the coalition ministry. The British had barely restored order in the Rawalpindi and Multan divisions, when serious disorders swept the Gurgaon district.... EXCERPTS: The birth of a sufi SHAH Abdul Lateef Bhittai, the great mystic poet of Sindh, was born in Hala Haveli, a village in Hala Taluka of Hyderabad District. It is about 18 miles from Bhitt, his last resting place. Quite often, there is no consensus on the dates of birth... EXCERPTS: Why shouldn’t they meet? In its annual report for 2001, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan documents the violation by the government of the people’s right to peaceful assembly... AUTHOR: A people’s poet MY last memory of Kaifi Azmi will live with me forever. I had just got back from the CID office in Mumbai after a humiliating wait to get my passport stamped... AUTHOR: Historian with a soul IN these turbulent times when the Middle East is up in flames, Dr Elise Young’s interpretation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is remarkably insightful and, coming from a Jew, radical. She learnt... ARTICLES: With a sense of nationalism: Punjabi in North America DECEMBER 9, 1913 marks the date when the first Punjabi publication made its debut in North America. That day the Ghadar Party in California, newly formed by the Indian students at... SYNDICATED: The lady’s not discerning ONE reason for Margaret Thatcher’s success in politics was that she always knew that it was wise to alight from the train before it hit the buffers. While denouncing the notion... SYNDICATED: Mind the gaps THE brain is a wonderful territory for scientific exploration but there is a great deal that we don’t understand about the way it works. The bottom line of Joseph Ledoux’s Synaptic... REVIEW: What globalization is doing to us THE book Globalization and development studies — challenges for the 21st century consists of a series of papers read at a workshop organized in November 1997 by the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Frans Schuurman, a senior lecturer at the Institute, has edited and compiled the papers... REVIEW: Caught in the crossfire I DON’T know about you, but I’m the kind of reader who loves to tear through books, finishing them in a few days, devouring the plots and often cheating by... REVIEW: Victory complex IN his wide-ranging study, the military historian Brian Bond analyzes the meaning of ‘victory’ in war from the eighteenth century to the present. Notwithstanding its first publication predating the acts of... REVIEW: In the world of crime AZHAR Hassan Nadeem is a police officer as well as a trained criminologist. He also holds a doctorate in economics from the university of Punjab. With these qualifications it is not... REVIEW: Loneliness of silence A MAN sitting detached from his surroundings in a lonely world of his own is rarely understood. Is he harbouring a faint resentment against someone? Is he angry or shy? Invariably he is stamped out of the mainstream. But his real problem might be his hearing impairment which is rarely understood. It is essentially a preventable disability.... REVIEW: Playing cricket the clean way MOSTLY coming in to bat at one wicket down, Waqar Hasan dominated Pakistan’s Test cricket during the decade of the fifties. In his foreword to the autobiography, the Little Master, the... REVIEW: Love tangles ACCIDENTS like love and marriage is not profound reading. The most appropriate expression — if I were to give a one-word summation — for the book would be, ‘amusing’. Since Jaishree... REVIEW: Not by technology alone IS transfer of technology from the developed to the developing countries the only recipe for progress and prosperity to eliminate poverty? This is an issue that has led to an unending...

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