December 15, 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 Did Bhutto break up Pakistan? A charge against Bhutto that does not go away is that had he not declared at a Nishtar Park Karachi public meeting, addressing Mujibur Rehman, “Uddhar tum, iddhar hum.”... The empowerment myth Has women’s mobility, which is an indicator of their empowerment, increased due to joining waged work? Are women more mobile and therefore more confident about their presence in the public sphere... We never learn To pursue a conflict successfully, we must know the strengths, weaknesses, aspirations, expectations, and capabilities of the enemy as well as we know our own.... ARTICLE: Reflections on the 1971 crisis Karamatullah K. Ghori, who served in the Pakistan Foreign Service before his retirement in 2000, is a poet, short-story writer and columnist who never stopped pursuing his literary interests while roaming... AUTHOR: Afsan Chowdhury: Researching the 1971 war “Instead of its generals, Pakistan can be proud of those who actively opposed the genocide the army had conducted in 1971 in the erstwhile East Pakistan, which is now Bangladesh,” says... SYNDICATED: What a capital idea In 1698, diarist John Evelyn lent his family home at Deptford, conveniently situated with river access to London, to the crown, to provide accommodation for Peter the Great. For four months... SYNDICATED: But will Oprah love it? The essays in this collection act as what Hollywood scriptwriters love to refer to as a ‘back story’. They constitute the intellectual hinterland and personal archaeology behind the most remarkable novel... SYNDICATED: A partnership that helped What emerges clearly from the book under review is that the Indian bourgeoisie benefited from the fact of the country having been occupied by a single imperial power, the most advanced... REVIEWS: Not a monolith The Muslims are spread over vast areas of Asia, Africa, and to some extent, Europe. In some places they are in a majority while in others they constitute a small fraction... REVIEWS: Knowing the unknown Stefan Zweig, an Austrian writer who migrated to Brazil in protest against the occupation of his country by Hitler, committed suicide with his wife in 1944. About two decades before his... REVIEWS: The French connection The prognosis was inevitable. Coming after Lajja, the controversial novel that had brought its Bengali author under so much censure, Taslima Nasrin’s, second novel French lover was bound to draw attention;... REVIEW: To oust the capitalists It is impossible not to be impressed by the spectacular ruins of Machu-Picchu. Their setting is quite breathtaking, occupying a saddle of land which falls away precipitately for thousands of feet... REVIEW: All talking heads Bias by Bernard Goldberg made it to the top of The New York Times’ bestseller list for non-fiction, not because it’s a researched and balanced critique of the networks but because... REVIEW: For the sake of land Some of the most bizarre customs relating to women in traditional societies surviving in the modern world are found in Muslim countries. Take female circumcision for instance, or stoning to death... REVIEW: How the Sikhs were tamed The Sikhs are a very distinct community in the subcontinent. The desire to win for themselves a separate national sovereign identity has for long agitated their Punjab-based rural ethnic psyche which... REVIEWS: Chomsky in Urdu For the past several decades, Noam Chomsky has become more famous for his trenchant critiques of United States foreign policy than for his ground-breaking linguistic theories. Without mincing words, he courageously...

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