July 28, 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 Crime crosses borders Organized crime can become transnational in any one or more ways. In some cases, such as Colombian drug trafficking organizations, the bulk of the criminal activities... EXCERPTS: The deadly killer Anti-personnel landmines have taken a heavy toll for decades. Not only do they kill and maim indiscriminately, they make fertile land unusable,... EXCERPTS: New ground, new language Premchand returned to Banaras on the night of March 10 to find a letter from Sajjad Zaheer waiting for him.... ARTICLES: The four golden rules Bestsellers and bestseller lists exercise a strange, and slightly shameful, fascination. I am often surprised at readers who confess with mild embarrassment to an addiction to their monitoring of the up-to-the-minute... ARTICLES: The enigma of the writer What is that demon, the inner voice, that compels writers to write to the point of burning themselves out? What is inspiration and why does it suddenly abandon the writer?... ARTICLES: Fallacic rantings In the seventies Oriana Fallaci was known as a firebrand reporter who bearded many a lion in his den — Castro, Qadhafi, Kissinger, Golda Meir, Zulfikar Bhutto — and was blunt... ARTICLES: Merger is the game THE news that the carriage-trade publisher John Murray has merged with the brassier, more streetwise Hodder Headline (backed by its parent company W.H. Smith) suggests that after 234 years in the... ARTICLES: Hawking tries again and strikes The Aventis science book prize was picked up by Cambridge’s Professor Stephen Hawking for The universe in a nutshell. The book is yet another attempt by Hawking to unravel the cosmos... AUTHOR: Shiv Kumar Batalvi (1936-1973) Poet of melody Lyrical sweetness — the magic touchstone of poetry — found a permanent home in Punjabi poetry more than a millennium ago. While Baba Farid (1173-1266) wrote most of his Punjabi poetry... SYNDICATED: Tennis tantrums Here are two stories not in Serious, John McEnroe’s autobiographical tale of hard-won maturity. Two years ago, infuriated with a line call at a Seniors tournament in Chicago, he hurled a... SYNDICATED: When it comes to the crunch... Something odd happens towards the end of Real time, Amit Chaudhuri’s rather disappointing, even perfunctory, collection of stories. It’s not just that the genre changes, from fiction to autobiography, nor that... REVIEW: Talented man in the wrong spot Colin Powell, Secretary of State in the current Bush administration, has the reputation of being a very talented man. So talented is he that a large section of the American people... REVIEW: Propagating peace? Journalists can, through their writings, help to modify perceptions and so bring about a process of change in countries locked in a conflict situation. For instance, the improvement in Franco-German relations... REVIEW: Collecting little treasures Anita Shreve has changed tack in her latest novel. Instead of the expected unputdownable, reading at full tilt approach which has endeared her to me over her previous eight novels, in... REVIEW: Icelandic journeys This book by Jamiluddin Aali is more a “Sareer-i-Khama” than a Safarnama. The reader will take up the book expecting to find some interesting information about the little known country Iceland.... REVIEW: Why are they unequal? All human beings are born equal but they create inequalities among themselves. They also proceed to count man as ‘superior’ to the woman. Albeit, every man owes his existence to a...

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