September 15, 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 How poor are the poor The third world today covers most of the globe. It embraces countless cultures, religions, traditions, and ways of life. Its achievements are monumental.... EXCERPTS: Challenging the male gaze By the time the military coup of 1977 took place, women were responsible for almost the entire activity of art education in Pakistan.... EXCERPTS: Does it have a future? The announcement of the finalists for the Second Annual Online Journalism Awards in 2001 was accompanied by the chilling news that a drought of advertising money... EXCERPTS: Chickens come home By 1979 the Russians had deposed Zahir Shah and placed a man of their choice at the helm of affairs. As the Russian influence became entrenched the traditionalist Afghans formed pockets of resistance to oppose the Soviets.... ARTICLES: The queen of hearts I first heard about Dr Masooda Jalal from TV reports. She was contesting the elections for the president of Afghanistan in the Loya Jirga convened in Kabul in June. I wanted... ARTICLES: Empowering through literacy The world literacy day was observed with great zeal and fervour on September 8 by the Women’s Literacy and Empowerment Centres (WLEC) in the various goths of Malir. The occasion brought... AUTHOR: Italo Calvino (1923-1985): Skilled in magical realism “Everything can change but not the language that we carry inside us.” Italo Calvino, the quintessential postmodern writer, was a master of allegory and fantasy. With his fluid imagination, he is... SYNDICATED: Sorrow — but the voice soars Among my long-playing records, long unplayed since the turntable broke, is one rarity that was recorded in Hollywood in 1956. The cover photo shows a striking black woman in a long... SYNDICATED: What is nature? Nature is a slippery word. What do we mean by it? The OED lists 15 different definitions. Perhaps scientists have the answer; after all, their journal is called Nature. Or is... REVIEWS: Stories of Iranian diaspora This book contains a series of interviews with Iranian exiles and emigres who left their country because of their unwillingness to live under the new order after the 1979 revolution. This... REVIEWS: The glory that was History has always dealt a very effective hand to human civilization. Over the centuries, shadows have taken shape and then declined into the recesses of time. But Multan, a city rich... REVIEWS: South Asia, twenty years hence In May 2002 the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) in Colombo, a non-profit, non-governmental body organized a six- day workshop of young non-official participants from SAARC countries with the main... REVIEWS: The mighty creation “Mountains are the beginning and end of all natural beauty,” says a British art critic and writer, John Rustin. And natural beauty is among those few possessions in which Pakistan is... REVIEWS: Partition observed Historical events can be interpreted from different perspectives. Class, gender, and time period change the whole perception of the past. Every generation sees its own image in the mirror... REVIEWS: Traveller’s friend A tourist exploring a country for the first time is like an awestruck child looking around in bewilderment. It is therefore unwise to let such a child leave the house... REVIEWS: The unholy alliance After Samraj aur jagirdari, this is Hamza Alavi’s second collection of incisive articles devoted to an in-depth study of an unholy alliance between the military and the civil bureaucracy, which has...

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