August 18, 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 Changing lifestyles DUE to these changes, there has been a change in lifestyles, supported by the communication revolution. Nuclear families are replacing joint family systems. Clan and tribal organizations that the migrants had brought with them have ceased to be effective... EXCERPTS: Entry barred ON Wednesday, September 17, 1952, the Chaplin family embarked for England on the Queen Elizabeth. Still evading the process-server, Chaplin boarded the ship at five in the morning and did not dare show himself on deck. Consequently, the devoted James Agee... EXCERPTS: The price of freedom MANTO uses Ghalib’s couplet as a prologue for his preface to the first edition of his short story collection, Thanda gosht, literally, “cold meat”. The many versions of the title itself: Colder than ice/Cold like ice/Cold ... so cold”, illustrate... ARTICLES: A circus without a ringmaster A circus without a ringmaster”. This is how a friend of mine working for the UN described Afghanistan. To put it bluntly, Afghanistan is a mess. Kabul is chaotic. It is only a few months since I was there last, but, as in the past... ARTICLES: Karachi’s cultural delight CRITICS of Urdu literature maintain that the reason why Mohammad Hussain Azad did not write a piece on Momin Khan Momin in his book, Aab-i-Hyat, is that the celebrated romantic poet... AUTHOR: Rooted in the poor “I LIKE many of my own stories but my favourite is ‘A story in defence of pigs’ which I wrote in 1978. Its subject is conservation of the environment but it... SYNDICATED: Reassembling the self SUNBATHING in the rain is such a lovely title for a book about beating depression. A cheerful book about depression is a horrible, leaden subtitle, reminiscent of the worst kind of... SYNDICATED: Bitter centres AS a teenage reader in the early sixties, I had an addiction to fated heroines driven by one all-consuming, unsatisfactory love, such as The constant nymph (a favourite of Rosamund Lehmann’s)... REVIEW: The struggles of strugglers “VICTIM or heroine, witch or goddess, housewife or prime minister — these are the dual images that persist in our minds about Indian women,” writes Raka Ray in the introduction to... REVIEW: Turning the Afghan tables THE radical changes taking place in our region as the old order is demolished and a new system is ushered in have pushed the conservative religious elements against the wall. It... REVIEW: How political parties operate POLITICAL parties in India offer an extraordinary range of choices to the electorate. The voters by and large appear to be satisfied with the sense of control they enjoy over the... REVIEW: When they stole America MICHAEL Moore is well known in the intellectual circles of the US. He has penned the provocative and award-winning Roger & me and the bestseller Downsize this. Now he is back... REVIEW: Developing South Asia THE book under review contains nine essays contributed by Meghnad Desai, Paul Streeten, Adeel Malik, Shahid Javed Burki, Francis Stewart, Taimur Hyat, Rehman Sobhan, Nurul Islam, M.S. Swaminathan, Gustav Ranis, Rashid... REVIEW: Anxiety — one step at a time EMOTIONS, such as sadness, anger or fright, often pass away. But anxiety is another kind of emotional arousal. It is quite normal and justified at certain times, for example, in... REVIEW: Yearning for El Dorado “THE Taliban had ordered all the girls and women in Afghanistan to stay inside their homes. They even forbade girls to go to school. Parvana had had to leave her sixth... REVIEW: Fund raising as an art CIVIL society organizations (CSOs) — entities set up with the express purpose of rendering public good — are increasingly being reviled in much of the world as their reputation has been... In brief THE Halqa-i-Arbab-i-Zauq brought in its folds a large number of short story writers, poets and critics. Amidst them, was a young poet who was also a teacher of mathematics. He was Anjum Roomani. With great command over language and diction, Roomani became popular in the literary circle of Lahore where he came to be... REVIEW: Rashdi remembers JOURNALIST, diplomat, wildlife expert and politician, Pir Ali Muhammad Rashdi (1905-1987) played an important role in the affairs of Pakistan, particularly in his home province Sindh, for well over 50 years....

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