September 22, 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 Complexities of ethnicity The ethnic boundaries and ethnic identities in Pakistan are too fluid to be addressed by a framework requiring a rigid definition Sufficient conceptual flexibility... EXCERPTS: To register protest When Andaleeb Saleem went inside the High Commission, three bull-eyed Pakistani men in shabby shalwar kurtas greeted her with much indolence.... EXCERPTS: Time to clean the mess Instances of racial profiling, harassment and religiously motivated arson and murder in America are on the increase, and thousands of Muslims are being detained by the FBI in America on mere suspicion.... ARTICLES: The e-book age has arrived The Library of Congress, which is the national library of America, reported the other day that it has received its first delivery of electronic books for electronic copyright registration and deposit.... AUTHOR: Sajjad Baqar Rizvi (1928-1993): Critic with focus on tradition Talking of Sajjad Baqar Rizvi, I am reminded of the time, say the late fifties, when he had arrived in Lahore to join Islamia College, Civil Lines, as a teacher of... AUTHOR: Bulleh Shah (1680-1758): Leading light of Punjab Bulleh Shah (1680-1758) and Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810) shared the same time and space — eighteenth century Northern India — and were amongst the major poets of their respective languages. They... SYNDICATED: Sidelined in the DNA race Portraits of the joint Nobel laureates, James Watson and Francis Crick, rightly hang side by side on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery in London, their position as schoolboy heroes... SYNDICATED: Whither great expectations? One of the principles behind Weidenfeld’s series of Lives (general editor James Atlas) seems to be the commissioning of novelists to write about their illustrious forerunners — Edmund White on Proust,... CHILDREN’S BOOKS: In fantasy land Human beings have a gift for fantasy, which shows itself at an early age. Society can either quash this talent by moving a child away from art and literature towards a... CHILDREN’S BOOKS: Naughty narratives Though Sharartain is meant to be a textbook for students of class three, the stories and rhymes qualify for general reading for young children. With all its bright and exuberant colours... CHILDREN’S BOOKS: A beacon of light A children’s publication of peace titled Children of light represents the concerns of a mother who feels sad that her children are growing up with images of mass destruction and annihilation... REVIEWS: How are our parties run Any criticism of political parties at this stage means falling into the trap of the anti-politics establishment, which is seeking its best to prevent accredited — the establishment calls them discredited... REVIEWS: Inspiration from the clown David Robinson’s 800-page biography is a meticulous, academic study of the life and times of “London’s most famous son”. Although it can be hard to describe verbally the comedic genius of... REVIEWS: A cry in the wilderness? Men wage wars but the chief victims of war are invariably women. The truth of this has been so clearly established in Kashmir, which has been in the grip of an... REVIEWS: Was he a traitor? Sir Khizr Hayat Khan Tiwana (1900-1975), the last Unionist premier of the undivided Punjab, is largely ignored in Pakistan. There are no biographies of him; no buildings and roads, at least... REVIEWS: Karachi: to celebrate or protest? The first issue of City, a quarterly on urban society, was published in July. It, in the main, incorporates articles, studies and images that spotlight changes wrought by the process of... REVIEWS: Bold world of relationships Fehmida Riaz writes with prowess and deliberation. Be it poetry or prose, her virile pen has sinews many of her male contemporaries expend much ink to develop. It is a little... REVIEWS: The river flows on Most journeys have a marked beginning and a definite ending. They begin somewhere and take you some place. Travel writing has this distinct advantage over actual journeys that it need have...

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