December 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 Miracle of microfinance WE live in a world where more than 100 million children of primary school age have never stepped inside a classroom, where some 29,000 children die each day from largely preventable malnutrition and disease, and where 1.2 billion people live on less than $1 a day.... Excerpts: Keeping it on leash ALL bureaucracies, including armies, are relatively slow to change and, once their core values and orientations are understood, very predictable. The Indian Army is about such a bureaucracy... [it] retains much of its British origins, which in turn.... Excerpts: In search of justice WHILE the adverse impact of human interventions on the environment became a matter of serious public concern in the 1980s, it is only in the last few years that there has been sufficient information to begin to get a feel for the extent of the problem.... Articles: Spying on Greene FOR over 40 years, one of Britain’s most famous writers Graham Greene was under the watchful gaze of the FBI, revealed The Guardian. The newspaper claims to have obtained the document... Articles: What housewives read IN my reminiscent mood, I often think about the times gone by when the favourite and perhaps solitary pastime of the women confined to the precincts of their homes was to... Articles: A paperback for me, anytime FOR publishers, ordinary writers and booksellers, the next few years could be the last great days of publishing as we have known it since the sixteenth century.” So writes Toby Mundy, publisher of Atlantic Books, a lively new imprint, in a long, learned piece in the latest edition of Prospect.... Author: A pioneer and more “I FELT the need to open up a space for women,” says Urvashi Butalia, who along with Ritu Menon, founded the first feminist press in Asia, Kali for Women. She goes... Author: Death that kills MARTIN Amis has been making literary headlines since the publication of his first novel, The Rachel papers in 1973. Following his widely-acclaimed memoir, Experience, Amis has turned his attention to Stalin’s... Syndicated Reviews: In the glare of Blair A PRIME minister, Edward Clare, decides to find out what Britain is really like by travelling around the country disguised as a woman called Edwina, accompanied by the policeman who... Syndicated Reviews: Reel life adventures IN HIS 1985 novel Suspects, David Thomson suggested that ‘we have formed a taste for lucky encounter, for intersection and unrecognized coincidence... yet the chance of coincidence makes us suspicious too,... Review: Another evil empire? WE Americans deeply believe that our role in the world is virtuous — that our actions are almost invariably for the good of others as well as ourselves. Even when our actions have led to disaster, we assume that the motives behind them were honourable.... Review: Journey through the mind “EVERY action we take every thought we think creates our future. Our inner journey is the insight of our awakening. Be aware that every life has a purpose and events happen... Review: Make your choice WILL Hutton is a British academic whose analysis of British society in his book The state we’re in became a bestseller. In his latest book, entitled The world we’re in, he... Review: Love and marriage THE world loves a lover, and tales of love continually proliferate. From the larger than life exploits of the Mesopotamian mythical characters Innana and Damuzai, the Egyptian love poems preserved on... Review: The new imperialists JOHN Pilger is renowned worldwide as an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker and as a life-long campaigner for the rights of the weak and the vulnerable. In his latest book, The... Review: Iqbal needs a new paradigm THE paradigm which has so far served the traditional interpretations of Iqbal’s works could be questioned. Dr Manzoor Ahmed’s Iqbal shanasi, a collection of articles on the great poet-philosopher, may change...

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