July 7, 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 Batting on the same side The media has come a long way from Delaney’s thundering injunction that “it is no part of the duties of the press to share the burdens of statesmanship”.... They are not slaves Throughout the world domestic workers are generally afforded inadequate protection by the law as far as minimum wages or conditions are concerned... Rest in peace — and beauty With the advent of Islam in the South Asian subcontinent the impact of a foreign culture was soon to have its effect on the local traditions and traits.... ARTICLE: In the footstep of Ibne Battuta In 1325, Abu Abdallah Ibne Battuta left his home town, Tangier, Morocco, at the age of 21. He was on the road for the next 29 years. It is incredible to... ARTICLE: The right to be let alone Writing as far back as in January 1964, Vance Packard, better known as the author of The hidden persuaders, that classic study of the American advertising and political machine, quoted the... AUTHOR: For Abba with love He was always different, a fact that didn’t sit too easily on my young shoulders. He didn’t go to ‘office’ or wear the normal trousers and shirt like other ‘respectable’... SYNDICATED: Chilean general in Piccadilly Idi Amin eats nothing but oranges, on the orders of his physicians. He dreams of leaving Saudi Arabia and returning to Uganda. Baby Doc Duvalier fled Haiti in 1986 with millions... SYNDICATED: Guide to a hilarious universe James Boswell was taken aback by Samuel Johnson’s verdict on Gulliver’s travels: “When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the... SYNDICATED: Wars of terrorism It is a telling commentary on the political and intellectual culture of the world’s most powerful state, and even though Noam Chomsky’s booklet 9-11 is a bestseller, yet mainstream papers in... REVIEWS: Not a ringside view Murtaza Malik is an old campaigner and has been in the world’s second oldest profession for many years. In Peshawar, where he has always lived, he was the eyes and ears... REVIEWS: So it is a clash? Tariq Ali was never known for ‘political correctness’. His latest book, The clash of fundamentalisms, if anything, lives up to that rebellious image. In a broad sweep across time and space,... REVIEWS: A city within a megacity Once a swampy terrain on the periphery of Mumbai (then Bombay) and a dumping site for the city’s garbage and construction debris, Dharavi is now a city within that megacity. It... REVIEWS: Bridging two worlds The universal question for the twenty-first century, Carlos Fuentes writes, is how do we deal with the Other? In the last two decades some 15 million new immigrants — predominantly from... REVIEWS: Philosophical discourses It is a matter of pride for South Asian readers that Syed Imdad Imam Asar‘s monumental work, Miratool hukama (The mirror of philosophers) has been translated into Swedish and other Scandinavian...

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