September 8, 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 Reflections: 9/11, a year later: A view from the US It is widely argued that the September 11 terrorist attacks have changed the world dramatically, that nothing will be the same as the world enters into an “age of terror” —... ARTICLE: Pakistan’s dilemmas The awesome destruction of New York’s twin towers, in a fraction of a minute, as a horrified world watched it on TV, has left deep scars on the American psyche. It... ARTICLE: Selective memory I am Zoroastrian. A descendant of the three Magi eternally perched on camels on Christmas cards and in Nativity tableaus. A large part of our scriptures were destroyed, first by Alexander... ARTICLE: Palestinian impressions On September 11, 2001, I was scheduled to give a lecture at the University of Arizona entitled, “Freedom and multiculturalism in Islamic philosophy”. That morning, I was woken up by a... ARTICLE: Taking stock As the September 11 anniversary of the destruction of the twin towers in New York draws close, an astonishing number of books — up to 150 — is expected to be... ARTICLE: Second Gutenberg revolution Every age has its own battles. As the corporate globalization threatens to take almost everything — from traditional crops to something as essential for human life as water — away from... AUTHOR: Arundhati Roy: Speaking for the poor When you are Arundhati Roy, it is difficult to look ‘the other way’. It is difficult to wallow in the jingoistic delights of nuclearization, not when 300 million people of India... SYNDICATED: A bully with some beef We all know that power tends to corrupt. This dazzling book raises the question whether the black stuff can uncorrupt. Can bad men become powers for good? This is my thought... SYNDICATED: Putting all heaven in a rage The zoological garden is a European phenomenon — as well as a European invention and export. Across the continent about 150 million visitors decide to “go to the zoo” each year.... REVIEWS: The missile man “The bloodline of my great-grandfather Avul, my grandfather Pakir and my father Jainulabdeen, may end with Abdul Kalam....” These are the closing words of the autobiography of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the... REVIEWS: Jinnah in perspective Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah is one of the greatest leaders of the Muslim world. His vision and leadership transformed a community into a nation and brought into being Pakistan against very... REVIEWS: As daylight peters out Oxygen’s author Arthur Miller made a striking entry into the literary world in 1997 by winning the world’s most valuable literary prize for a single work of fiction with his debut... REVIEWS: Poisoned relations Modern soap is about greed and the corruption it leads to. More insidiously, greed poisons human relations, even the closest and most sacred. Javed Amir tells the story of three brothers... REVIEWS: Is a solution in sight? Relations between India and Pakistan have remained hostage to the unresolved Kashmir dispute for the past 55 years — and, unhappily, the outlook is that unless there is a significant shift...

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