June 2, 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 Will they join hands? Ironically, India’s nuclear tests shattered US policy, with its single-minded focus on proliferation, and forced a reconsideration of relations with New Delhi.... EXCERPTS: A year of change This document is a selection of news items related to Afghanistan published in eight Pakistani English language newspapers during the year 2001. Selection has been made from more than 36,000 published... EXCERPTS: Future@china.communism The Internet breaks a 500-year Latin American pattern of monopoly, monopoly of information, economics, social, religious power.... ARTICLES: The millennium library In the routine life of a librarian there are only a few uplifting moments. One of these in my professional career came when I had the opportunity to dip into old... ARTICLES: Press in the service of fascism These are trying times. The holocaust in the Indian state of Gujarat has shown what the venomous rhetoric can do when put into a planned deadly action. The consensus of all... AUTHOR: Maeve Binchy: Too real to be true You can meet an old friend and catch up over steaming cups of tea or you can read Maeve Binchy’s deceptively simple novels. Her slice of Irish — usually small town... SYNDICATED: The creepy Mr Cripps One day, when he was a member of the wartime coalition cabinet, Stafford Cripps barged into Number 10 demanding an instant audience with Winston Churchill. The great man was on the... SYNDICATED: Mock heroics After reaching the end of Philip Hensher’s new novel I was a little disappointed to discover that the official publication date was April 2.... REVIEWS: Honest man among politicians When Green parties emerged in Europe several decades ago, they were not taken seriously as a political force. They were viewed as an impractical, radical fringe or, at best environmentalist pressure... REVIEWS: Hero to friend and foe The second millennium began with the tumultuous European/ Christian onslaught against the Muslim control of Palestine. That event was celebrated in the Christian world as the beginning of the Crusades. Their... REVIEWS: Exploding the myth Scheherazade goes West: different cultures, different harems is a fascinating book by an Arab feminist from Morocco. Fatema Mernissi is a professor of sociology at the university of Rabat and is... REVIEWS: Empire’s literary giant Rudyard Kipling’s name is almost synonymous with India and the Empire at the turn of the century. But in fact comparatively little of his life was spent in India. Born in... REVIEWS: Sindh’s political activism Politics in Sindh, 1907-40 is based on the research undertaken by Allen Keith Jones, a Scottish born academic who spent a considerable part of his life in South Asia. The American... REVIEWS: Exploring the roots The experience of the Pakistani diaspora abroad is the subject of a growing number of literary work by Pakistani writers. We readers have a pretty good idea of what to expect.... REVIEWS: Following the ups and downs Literary critics in Urdu, especially in this country, are few and far between. They number just a smattering of the actual creative talent available here, which means that while poets and... REVIEWS: This is terrorism War, terrorism and violence have been around since the dawn of written history. Since 9/11, terrorism has been a topic of renewed, widespread and vigorous discussion in the United States and...

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