November 3, 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 From Chechnya to Mindanao ALONG the Grand Trunk Road, women struggled past in ice-blue chadors whipped by the draught of passing vehicles, whose drivers — all men — were locked in a maniacal quest for martyrdom. Some fifteen kilometres west of Attock... Excerpts: Look, Kabeera weeps I HAVE been asked to write something about Manto. The problem is what could I add that would be new to so much already being written about the departed soul. Before January 19, while he was alive, he was abused. The progressives would call him an obscurantist... Excerpts: The receding state MOST of the societal movements in Nepal have been parochial rather than social in nature. Bereft of any economic vision or commitment to broad social issues, these mobilizations have been driven by a single quest for the capture... Articles: Bibliotheca Alexandrina “A LIBRARY is not just a receptacle to store information, but reflects a societal need for a certain level of information. The need arises when society reaches a stage of cultural... Author: Third time lucky YANN Martel says he doesn’t like exoticism in fiction and finds weirdness fatiguing. Which is pretty weird, given that he has won the Booker Prize with a story about a Hindu... Author: Nobel for survivor THIS year’s Nobel Prize for literature went to Hungarian author and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertisz, whose autobiographical novels explore how individuals can survive when subjected to “barbaric” social forces.... Author: Enriched by two cultures LAN Samantha Chang was born and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin (USA). Her fiction has appeared in many publications, including the Atlantic Monthly, Story, and twice in The Best American Short Stories.... SYNDICATED: The stronger vessel EMMELINE Pankhurst, along with other revolutionary figures such as Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Paine, endured vicious misrepresentation until some real historians appeared on the scene to do her justice. In the... SYNDICATED: The major and the minor SO, in one foul swoop, and it is a very foul one, Edwina Currie has brought some colour back into politics: a stinging red blush to John Major’s wan cheeks, turning... Review: The contradictions within WHEN Ho Chi Minh reached France before the first world war, he was pleasantly surprised that the French at home were quite civil in contrast to those in the colonies. However,... Review: The old solution THE author of Danger in Kashmir, the late Dr Josef Korbel, was a career diplomat from Czechoslovakia who escaped to London during the second world war when his country was occupied by Germany. Given his diplomatic experience, he was chosen as a member of the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan (UNCIP) set up... Review: Lingering memories WHEN journalists double up as historians, they often end up reducing momentous events to sound bytes. M.J. Akbar has achieved the rare feat of retaining all the rich tapestry of history... Review: Human rights: old and new IN HUMAN rights, Zafarullah Khan covers wide ground. As he asserts in the preface, the book presents “a broad analysis of human rights concepts, processes, institutions and the human rights system”.... Review: Shattered dreams GRANDMOTHER Dhanna who, all for the sake of bearing a child, braves the overgrown wilderness around a long forgotten well, to bathe in its icy waters at midnight because a dream... Review: The unending violence REFLECTIONS in a cracked mirror is the third in a series of prose narratives by Fahmida Riaz (Zindabahar and Godavari having appeared in the early nineties). The book under review explores... Children''s Book Review: Edifying the little ones STORY telling has been an art which has been popular all over the world, especially in villages in the pre-electrification era when no work was possible after sunset. Hence people would... Children''s Book Review: Quaid’s life in pictures QUAID-I-AZAM and Pakistan cannot be separated from each other. The mention of the great leader brings to mind the eventful history of the Pakistan movement, with all the obstacles the Quaid... Children''s Book Review: Big books for tiny readers THERE has been a boom of books for young readers in the local market. Though not all of them would qualify as being professionally well produced, quite a few of them... In brief WRITTEN by Shah Nawaz Janbaz, who is considered among the pioneers of Afghanistan Television (ATV), Da Afghanistan television, is the first book on ATV. The book is timely since the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country is in progress these days. It can prove to be of use to.... Review: The Urdu Karamazov ONE of the greatest landmarks in world literature is Dostoevsky’s vertiginous novel The brothers Karamazov, an imaginative tour de force in the true sense of this much abused term. Readers all...

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