July 21, 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 The personal is political I think that we 1960s’ radicals have done a pretty poor job of communicating with the next generation about a lot of issues.... EXCERPTS: Parties of yore During the first seven years, when the Muslim League was in a majority everywhere, the opposition was neither strong nor numerous.... EXCERPTS: Memory bylanes My earliest encounter with Raheel Akbar Javed’s work was sometime in the early sixties, when I was an art student at the National College of Arts, Lahore.... ARTICLE: Language, identity, migration The global domination of English today is unprecedented in history and, as recent events have shown, no country can exist in isolation. A discussion on pluralism and multi-culturalism is essential to... ARTICLE: Focus on home affairs I had been toying with the idea for umpteen years. I had it all worked out — or so I assumed. Pakistani architects’ own houses was intended to focus on 25-30... AUTHOR: Edna O’Brien: Touching a raw nerve Edna O’Brien woke up to find herself famous in 1960 with the publication of The Country Girls. Many novels, short stories and plays followed. She lives in London.... AUTHOR: Andre Malraux: Of the last heroes Is it because he was born 100 years ago, or that he died 75 years later almost to the day, that Andre Malraux is celebrated more than ever now? This is... SYNDICATED: Palestinian resonances On a warm autumn evening 18 months ago, I crouched behind a wall on the Gaza Strip and watched Palestinian teenagers running out into the road in front of me to... SYNDICATED: Journey in the mind Travel is now the world’s biggest industry, according to the World Trade Organization. It beats arms and pharmaceuticals both in turnover and in numbers of people employed. Despite the post-September 11... REVIEWS: Painful memories The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 has been one of the most complex events to be addressed by historians. There have been so many versions and interpretations that no... REVIEWS: Prying into private lives For any computer nerd or even a freak hacker, Stephen Levy’s Crypto: secrecy and privy in the new code war is a must read semi-novel. Semi because the book is a... REVIEWS: Stagnating at eight per cent! Gordon Chang, the author of the book under review, is a Chinese American whose father migrated to the US. Having prospered in his adopted land, he uses his first book to... REVIEWS: Crusoe once again In 1937 the author’s father bought three tiny Hebridean islands off the west coast of Scotland for peanuts. They are called the Shiants and from time immemorial until only a few... REVIEWS: An east wind from the west “The East Wind has the effect of making even the saddest person happy for a while, and —.”... REVIEWS: Long route to empowerment Without doubt, female participation in the workforce is rising with rapid urbanization. But has this, in any way, altered the role of women in our society? Has economic empowerment brought better... REVIEWS: The mystery mystic The book under review is a collection of poems by the mystic poet Kabeer, compiled by Sardar Jafri who has also provided the translations in Urdu, along with explanatory notes. Kabeer...

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