January 12, 2003 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors. This page is updated every Sunday. For current issue Click here Determined to attack Though no connection between Iraq and the terrorist attacks of September 11 has been found, the Bush administration has significantly raised expectations that it will again invade Iraq as it extends its “war on terrorism” into new countries.... EXCERPTS: Schismed identity Bikas settled more comfortably on the ground and frowned the way he did when he was going to talk about development.... EXCERPTS: Coins tell a story In 1584, Akbar introduced the Ilahi era. He issued a farman (royal command) that henceforth all time reckoning would be done in the Ilahi calendar which dated from I556, the year of his accession to the throne.... ARTICLES: Sindhi books of 2002: Changing trends Prior to the decade of the eighties, the market of Sindhi books used to be dominated by literature of the (political) left. After the demise of the Soviet “empire” and the... ARTICLES: Home at last No man is an island, exclaimed poet John Donne a few centuries back. But, as far as Arthur C. Clarke is concerned, the science writer and visionary who celebrated his 85th... ARTICLES: Pushto books of 2002: A labour of love The flow of Pushto books in 2002 owed its pace to the labour of love of devoted writers and poets. The three major bookshops of Peshawar received 70 new titles, but... AUTHOR: Amitava Kumar: Interpreting immigritude Born in Patna, Bihar, Amitava Kumar received an MA in Linguistics from Delhi University in 1986 and moved to the United States to pursue advanced studies in literature. There, his career... AUTHOR: Dr Manzoor Ahmad: Impatient iconoclast Emerson was only partially right when he said that not gold but only men can make a people great and strong. Men without a well-rounded education are a purposeless multitude, fickle... SYNDICATED: Not simply a national hero Compared with Shakespeare’s, the life of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is abundantly documented, ruling out the crazier forms of speculation. Myth-making in Pushkin’s case made the writer into a vessel for national... SYNDICATED: The living teach about the dead If you wanted to find out about human prehistory where would you look for artefacts? The obvious answer is in the soil, but a new group of archaeologists is looking for... REVIEWS: The games in the Hindukush The author, a British diplomat, says in the concluding chapter, “...... there has been understandable resistance to the idea that national sovereignty — often hard won — is not necessarily inviolate... REVIEWS: Small goddess of big things “As Indian citizens we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding cell phone networks, bonded labour and the... REVIEWS: Does publicity really help? The advent of modern marketing and advertising began after the second world war. The introduction of television caused an explosion in advertising volume and it became the rising star in corporate... REVIEWS: After colonialism, what? Post-colonial state and social transformation in India and Pakistan is a unique tribute to the extraordinary intellectual achievements of Hamza Alavi, a social scientist and intellectual of world repute, by his... REVIEWS: Legends of a bygone era Recalling legendary figures who may have left abiding imprints on your memory, and creating their personality profiles in words, has always been a taxing task in any language or literature.... REVIEWS: The double-edged sword Three slim volumes, all three concerned with an issue that holds the world in thrall —- terrorism. While one of the books, Kanti Bajpai’s Roots of terrorism, is concerned largely with...

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