August 11, 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 Written in Jinnah’s heart LORD Mountbatten, the last viceroy and the first governor general of India, wrote to London in Personal Report No 17 dated August 17, 1947 that the Karachi programme of independence celebrations had to be changed from lunch to... EXCERPTS: The bridge builder WHILE many people are involved in this ‘broad front’ struggle, rare is the person who within his or her own life and practice can be said to embody the various facets of this diverse effort. Asghar Ali Engineer is just such a person... EXCERPTS: View from above and below FROM the skyboxes on either side of the mayor’s balcony on the front of Rotterdam’s city hall, the main street of the Coolsingel looked like it was on the verge of exploding. Hundreds of thousands of people... ARTICLES: I am Kashmir TARIQUE Rehman Fazlee is a man of many talents, wit being one. He called me the other day and asked, “Sir, why don’t you mediate between Pakistan and India? Kashmir is your land after all.” They make fun... AUTHOR: Hallmark of realism THE progressive writers’ movement launched in India in 1936, influenced a large number of writers of Urdu fiction. Under the movement’s creed, adab baraaye zindagi (literature to depict real life), Urdu... AUTHOR: Writer in social context IN the past few decades, there have been many new developments in the methodology of English language teaching worldwide. John Seely has been actively involved in this process since the 1960’s.... SYNDICATED: Psyche of a nation RICHARD Weight — boyish-looking, not long out of Cambridge, fluent in the importance of football and James Bond films to Britain’s self-image — is, to judge by his acknowledgments, impatient to... SYNDICATED: Giving a sense of shape WHEN Gerard Mercator was born in 1512, the geography of the globe was sparsely known. It was not clear whether America was part of Asia, if there was a vast inland... REVIEW: Guilty of genocide RAPHAEL Lemkin not only gave the word ‘genocide’ to the world, but also devoted an entire lifetime lobbying to get the genocide convention ratified by the United States. His dogged determination... REVIEW: The music of rain THE rainy season in our part of the world is what the spring is to the traditional Western poet, the season heralding change, rejuvenation, growth and the springing forth of plants... REVIEW: Change brings no change THE more things change, the more they remain the same. This aphorism sums up Santi Rozario’s social anthropological study about the pace of social change in the lives of women in... REVIEW: Quest for perfection Looked at but cannot be seen, that is called the invisible; listened to but cannot be heard, that is called the inaudible; grasped at but cannot be touched. that is called the intangible.” (Book of Tao by Lao-Tze) TWO friends, Ishaq and Joseph, set out on a journey in search of an ideal code for a perfect way of life. Their motive is to... REVIEW: Diplomacy in the Muslim era A WELCOME addition to the literature on diplomatic practice is the book by Ambassador Yasin Istanbuli, a senior member of the Jordanian diplomatic service, whose last appointment was as Ambassador... REVIEW: A matter of honour SINCE its first publication in the seventies, Raphael Patai’s The Arab mind has been the standard work of serious inquiry into the Arab psyche, studied as a matter of course by... In brief GENES, genomes, genetics. Very few newspaper readers were aware of these scientific terms until Dolly the sheep hit the headlines in 1996. Most people are still not very clear about the basic concept of genetic engineering. The mass media have covered the subject from various angles: how genes hold the key to life as we know... REVIEW: Iqbal for everyone IN Dr Farman Fatehpuri’s book Iqbal sub ke liye, the work of Iqbal has been made comprehensible for all. It is a detailed study of the poet-philosopher covering all aspects of...

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