September 29, 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 Is the solution the problem? There are some reasons for believing that Musharraf can buck the trend. In the first place, he does at least have an agenda.... EXCERPTS: Let the healers heal Who dares predict the consequences of our war against terrorism and the reckless shape it is assuming? Our allies in the war against the Taliban... EXCERPTS: World’s richest cricketer Chances are, if you are at home or driving on the road in India, the smiling face of Tendulkar would accost you somehow.... ARTICLE: War of the worlds The theory is doing the rounds that Osama bin Laden was inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. In October last year, an item appeared on an authoritative Russian studies website that soon... ARTICLE: Khalid Ishaque’s first love Nobel prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul, who is feted in the West for maligning Islam, was beside himself with wonderment at finding tons of books on religion at Khalid Ishaque’s well- stocked... AUTHOR: Zeeshan Sahil: For the love of Karachi “If I did not write poetry then I would not have done anything. Writing poetry is my vocation and not a hobby or habit.. Perhaps from the age of ten or... SYNDICATED: Talking his way into immortality Never mind the Footsie, Churchill’s stock is up. Not since his state funeral in 1965, an event widely seen as marking the decline of Britain and the fall of its empire,... SYNDICATED: Best eaten cold In the winter of 1986 an American tourist making his way alone up the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem’s old city was shot in the head by a Palestinian gunman. Some months... REVIEWS: On the snowy heights When I met Lt General Raghavan in Delhi before reading his book on Siachen, his claim that he had written the first definitive work on the subject sounded pompous. However, after... REVIEWS: Whither globalization? When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, many saw it as a triumph of capitalism in its war against communism. But as the 1990s unfolded, it became manifest that it was... REVIEWS: Afghanistan’s two fronts The bulk of the book under review has been written before September 11, with an epilogue added after the terrorist attacks. Its aim, according to the author, is to make the... REVIEWS: Realizing the American dream Odysseus arrives in America as many illegal immigrants do: sans money, sans family, and sans connections; a naked Hellenic peasant with a crown of expectations. (To copy the style of the... REVIEWS: Lights and crimes Las Vegas (Nevada), the fastest growing metropolis in America, with its bright neon lights, casinos, hotels, clubs and bars, remains the premier entertainment centre in the world. The city’s luminance draws... REVIEWS: Denouncing veils and walls Be it East or West, women all over the world are living in systems characterized by gender inequality. In Muslim societies, the veiling of women is another issue which has been... REVIEWS: Militant Islam 9/11 is supposed to have changed the world. Whilst only history will ascertain the validity of that statement some, including this reviewer, subscribe to the view that it merely shone a... REVIEWS: What ails the East “Gifted with the rare combination of the vision of a seer, the sympathetic understanding of a poet, and the intellectual acumen of a sage.” This is how the prominent educationist, Prof...

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