November 24, 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 Iraq’s dying children IN August 1999, UNICEF revealed that in the south/centre of Iraq — home to 85 per cent of the country’s population — the death rate among children under five had more than doubled during the period of sanctions. The death rate had gone... EXCERPTS: Squabbling over wealth IN contrast to the cold war era, today’s conflicts are less about ideologies and seizing the reins of state than about the struggle to control or plunder resources — capturing sites rich in minerals, timber, and other valuable commodities... EXCERPTS: Chasing a golden deer THAT night my daughters, Soonha and Suhaee, were asking for a bed-time story, as usual. “Once upon a time, there was a princess.. . .,” I begin and then stop abruptly. “And that princess was very beautiful... ARTICLES: The power of literature CAN literature bring old enemies together? Looks like it can, as Cuba signed an agreement with a US-funded project to preserve thousands of Ernest Hemingway’s documents and photographs which were found... ARTICLES: Sahar Ansari’s bibliomania LIKE charity, the education of a child begins at home. Browsing through magazines and books in a desultory fashion, the child develops a lifelong affinity for the written word.... AUTHOR: Celebrating life SHAHID Naqvi opened his eyes in a literary Lucknow family that had known modern education since the mid-19th century and traditional education for many generations before that. His great-grandfather, Syed Bahadur... AUTHOR: Subtle symbolism HAJIRA Masroor and her elder sister, the late Khadeeja Mastoor, both eminent contributors to Urdu fiction in the second half of the last century, have been referred to as literary twins... SYNDICATED: Are scientists objective? THE philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend once said that “success in science depends not only on rational argument but also on a mixture of subterfuge, rhetoric and propaganda”. John Waller has... SYNDICATED: A nobody who became a somebody WITH the exception of Shakespeare, it’s difficult to image a terrain more treacherous for the biographer than Samuel Pepys, who has achieved a status as the Ur-practitioner of diary-writing, a man... Review: Zia, and now Musharraf IT was June 1989. Until then Benazir Bhutto had enjoyed enormous popularity in Washington. Then, according to a senior state department official, attitudes began to change. When she stood on the... Review: Fact with fiction THERE are three important elements in writing history: events, evidence, and interpretation. If any of these is missing, it introduces an imbalance in the historical account. The general principle of historiography... Review: Moving away from mainstream M. S. KOREJO’S A testament of Sindh is a daring book. His two earlier works, about the “Frontier Gandhi” Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Sindhi nationalist leader G.M. Syed, illustrate... Review: 100 million years old THIS fascinating paperback, designed for the convenience of backpackers in Nepal, is an excellent addition to the rather limited range of publications detailing the plants of the Himalayan region.... Review: Is peace elusive? THOMAS Friedman of the New York Times should read this book. For several reasons it is unlikely that he will. First, Reinhart dispels the myth of Barak’s “generous offer” to the... Review: Even small guns kill THE 71-page report based on research organized by the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo, and the Small Arms Survey, Geneva, is an initial study on an extremely complex but important issue. Using participatory research methodology, the study discusses a subject most relevant in the South Asian context... Review: Marx in India THIS book mainly covers two topics — the impact of British rule on India and the first Indian War of Independence, or the Mutiny, as it is generally known. Since the...

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