May 26, 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 New freedom, old fears WITH virtually a negligible outreach of television and next to no newspapers or Internet in a largely illiterate Afghanistan, radio is the most vital source of news and information for a vast majority of the country.... EXCERPTS: No identity crisis, there A stark Delhi morning shrouded the city with grey. The sombre cast of the day seemed to creep into Reshma’s bedroom as she lay passively under the coverlet. She had been released from hospital nearly three days earlier, where she had.... EXCERPTS: Mourning the martyr IT is said that azadari in the subcontinent began first in the Deccan states of Bijapur and Golkonda. Subsequently, it was taken to new heights by the Shahs of Awadh, the Talpur Mirs of Sindh, the Nawabs of Bengal and Hyder Ali and Sultan Tipu’s.... ARTICLES: Faiz in exile EDWARD W. Said, a Palestinian American and perhaps the greatest intellectual of the third world, has been living in America for over fifty years but still regards himself as an exile... ARTICLES: The best book of all time It’s official now. One hundred of the world’s best authors have put their heads together and voted Don Quixote, as the best book of all time. The poll was organized by... ARTICLES: The homecoming I HAVE just spent five weeks in the UK. When I am asked that inevitable question, “Did you have a nice time?” I find myself quite inarticulate. I mean, how can you explain that you experience enormous culture shock in returning to the land... AUTHOR: Watching the dictators Mario Vargas Llosa has spent his life fighting totalitarianism — both on and off the page. He was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1936. He is author of many acclaimed novels,... SYNDICATED: Peace time wars IN THE ranks of American journalism, David Halberstam is a four-star general. About 25 years ago, he published The best and the brightest, the definitive inside story of how America went... SYNDICATED: A critic’s last word A COMBATIVE title for a collection of what is considered — by non-practitioners — to be a gented art: book-reviewing. Well, it’s not. And fighting against cliche is as good a stance as any to adopt. Here is Amis on Michael Crichton’s The lost world: “The characterization has been delegated to two or three thrashed and downtrodden adverbs.... REVIEW: Are scientists irresponsible? FRANCIS Fukuyama is Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the School of Advanced International Study, Johns Hopkins University. His most famous publication is the book The end of... REVIEW: The untold story ON picking up the book one gets the impression that this is yet another of the memoirs that the Oxford University Press seems extremely fond of publishing. But on reading Mansoor... REVIEW: Experiment in partnership IN his book, Stakeholders in rural development John M. Riley raises a critical question: despite investment in LDCs over the decades, why is the “improvement in the lives and livelihoods of... REVIEW: On a sultry day BRINDA Charry’s debut novel is set in a little town, Thiruninravur, in Tamil Nadu. The protagonist eleven year old, Nithya, from Bangalore is forced to spend six months with her widowed... REVIEW: On the slide AGRICULTURE in Pakistan generally, and in Sindh particularly, has been the victim of calculated official indifference and neglect. As a result, over the past 55 years this sector, which provides jobs... REVIEW: Why the silent commissions? IN the morning of April 10, 1988, an army ordnance depot on the outskirts of Islamabad burst into flames triggering a series of panicky explosions. Missiles and rockets fell all over... REVIEW: Life on a ship SAMANDAR kay din is a travelogue in Urdu by an outstanding travel writer of the Sindhi language. The author of over 50 books, Altaf Shaikh is regarded as the pioneer of...

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