August 25, 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 Freedom — end or means IT should be clear that we have tended to judge development by the expansion of substantive human freedoms — not just by economic growth (for example, of the gross national product), or technical progress, or social modernization.... EXCERPTS: Globalizing the media THE prevailing scenario for a future media order may be described as the corporate ideology of globalization. Media conglomerates — like Time Warner, News Corporation, Sony, Disney, and so on — have become the champions of this agenda for global cultural.... EXCERPTS: Comedy of errors THERE is of course no counting the political ups and downs that Pakistan has witnessed and suffered during the past half century. The ups have been few and far between and in short flashes. The dictatorships have been vastly more durable.... ARTICLES: The historical view WE are living through an age that has relegated the liberal arts in general, and the study of history in particular, to the backburner. Dominated by science and technology, obsessed with increasing power over the physical universe and his own... ARTICLES: Zamir Niazi’s choice VETERAN journalist and writer Zamir Niazi recently presented his valuable collection of books, periodicals and newspaper clippings on the press and mass communication to the Dawn library and reference section.... AUTHOR: Into the dazzling light IN 1996, Jonathan Franzen made a reckless public vow. He did it in the pages of the American magazine Harper’s, in a bitter, eloquent, intensely personal essay entitled “Perchance to dream:... SYNDICATED: The end of the affair JOE Klein’s dedication to a book subtitled The misunderstood presidency of Bill Clinton — an apology to his children for the years he was not there — tells you all you need to know about the relationship of author to subject. Where was he? Following Bill Clinton, of course.... SYNDICATED: Tuck in for a gourmet sleep LAST frontiers are hard to find these days, but Paul Martin thinks he’s found one: the pleasant land of counterpane, that which “knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care”, the one-third of all human experience that has not been turned into lifestyle. Sleep is not just not lifestyle, it is becoming a shrinking, disregarded nuisance, a stumbling block on the road to the 24/7 society.... REVIEW: Great game revisited BASED on a doctoral dissertation, this is a significant book that covers the Anglo-Russian Treaty of Rapprochement, signed on August 31, 1907, and its impact on Anglo-Russian relations as well as... REVIEW: Love is not blind THERE is a large food store in Moscow spread over two floors and several thousand metres. During the Soviet era, when the prices of essential food items were low, there wasn’t... REVIEW: The rare genius PREMCHAND (1880-1936), born Munshi Dhampad Rai, is arguably the greatest name in modern Urdu and Hindi fiction. His short stories and novels are still widely read in India and Pakistan and,... REVIEW: Foursome’s adventures NOW here’s a really fun book and up for a prize as well. It was short listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2002 for it was written in Arabic and... REVIEW: Demystifying defence FOR those in Pakistan, who complain of the absence of any analytical work emanating from India on defence and national security issues, Pravin Sawhney’s book the Defense make over is a... REVIEW: Signals from beyond “YOU are in the right place at the right time otherwise you would be somewhere else” — that in a nutshell is the message of Joel Rothschild’s book Signals. It is... REVIEW: Struggle for empowerment WOMEN in post Independence Sri Lanka is a thought provoking discussion of Sri Lankan women’s progress since Independence in 1948. It provides an excellent overview of women’s struggles to break away... REVIEW: Awaiting one’s fate LITERARY prizes have helped over the last decade to secure for good fiction a central place in the discourse of the educated public. It’s good to have read the Booker winner... In brief THOUGH it is difficult to write for a nation which has taken to the Net and is not interested in reading, some writers have worked with dedication to promote their language. They have used their command over words to put their feelings and ideas before the people. Faridoon is one of them. He spreads his message of hope through this... REVIEW: Epitome of confusion OUSPENSKY (1878-1947) is an epitome of confusion which was prevalent in the field of philosophy in the early twentieth century. Thinkers were trying to break loose from essentialistic philosophical systems which...

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