December 8, 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 Enigmatic Kashmir What then is Pakistan’s Kashmir policy? Basically, refusal to compromise on its claims to Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir.... EXCERPTS: The story of Mussoorie What was often referred to as the ‘Maruti revolution’ made matters even worse. The Maruti was a new, small, low-consumption, reasonably-priced car that hit the Delhi market in 1985.... EXCERPTS: Through the camera’s lens Today Old Sonargaon has an eerie yet seductive ghost-town feel to it. Walking through the ruins of some of the mansions evokes the locales so beautifully depicted in Satyajit Ray’s film... ARTICLES: Children’s books: Calling the authors When Rousseau was asked by a concerned parent when she should begin the education of her child, he inquired how old the child was. On being told, the child was five,... ARTICLES: Murder in the orchard Agani is a scenic village surrounded by fruit orchards on the bank of the river Indus. On a pleasant November morning recently, this place became the site of a gruesome murder... AUTHOR: Bapsi Sidhwa: Once a Pakistani, always ... One of the good things about interviewing Bapsi Sidhwa is that you don’t have to write an intro. The Internet has page after page devoted to her credentials and literary achievements.... AUTHOR: Alexandre Dumas: Indictment of our times On November 30, Alexandre Dumas, one of France’s most popular novelists — author of such international best-sellers as The three musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo — had his remains... SYNDICATED: A seat in history’s front stalls Autobiography does not come much more sumptuous than this. Eric Hobsbawm writes with elegant, witty precision. His memory — not just for people and dates, but looks and sounds and the... SYNDICATED: One side of the peace line The Irish Republican Army’s mission has always been to expel the British from Northern Ireland. Seven decades of death and destruction testify to its zeal. What, then, are we to make... REVIEWS: How to help After the second world war, international relations were dominated by confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. Global politics entered a period of cold war which affected every aspect... REVIEWS: Anarkali: fact or fiction? THE mention of Anarkali usually evokes distinct images: the lively and sprawling Anarkali Bazaar in Lahore named after the famous courtesan of Mughal emperor Akbar’s court; and the epic movie, Mughal-i-Azam,... REVIEWS: A world other than Europe World histories generally are focussed on ‘civilizations’ or are so immense that they make for difficult reading. Toynbee’s 12-volume Study of history is a case in point. Another aspect of such... REVIEWS: Nuclear arms: cause of insecurity This book By Khaled Ahmed consists of 34 chapters divided into four sections: army, security, ideology and society. The chapters read as if they were written on separate occasions as articles... REVIEWS: Afghan drama “Soldiers of God is a tale of strong-willed individuals as well as of ethnic groups formed by history and geography... It may succeed in giving the reader a sense of the... REVIEWS: Any hope for the little ones? SPARC’s fifth report on the state of children in Pakistan opens with a note of despondency: there is “little change” over the years in the children’s plight. Successive governments have failed... REVIEWS: The story of Sindh “On August 14, 1947,” writes Syed Mazhar Jamil, in his startlingly well-researched book, Aashob-i-Sindh aur Urdu fiction, “the first governor general of Pakistan’s nascent state, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah appointed Sir... REVIEWS: Information on Islam At this point of time when Islam is being subjected to diverse interpretations, it is logical that information on the scattered resources of Islamic literature and learning be tapped and organized... REVIEWS: Number crunching The fourth Annual Review of the Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC), Karachi, released a few months ago, focuses on economic growth, poverty and regional and personal income inequality. There has...

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