January 19, 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 The kidnapping and after The rule of the Dogras has long gone, but they still call it the Durbar: on May 7 each year the Durbar moves from the winter capital of Jammu to the summer capital of Srinagar.... EXCERPTS: The way we were From the eleventh century the elites of India came increasingly to share in the high culture, which we shall term Perso-Islamic culture, fashioned by the Iranian and Turkish peoples of Central and Western Asia.... ARTICLES: Balochi books of 2002: Presenting a desolate scene Less than a dozen new Balochi titles were published in 2002, among whichYatani dareeg and Darapshokain suhail were the most important ones. The former is a compilation of the verses of... AUTHORSPEAKS: Of literature and love Love is a demon and so is literature. They tend to possess you, one at a time or together. As individuals, we exist and function at three levels. The very basic... AUTHOR: My life, myself, and the world It all began with the birth of a little baby girl into a Palestinian family from Nablus. Not unexpectedly, the baby girl was received with discomfort punctuated with sobs and tears;... AUTHOR: Qazi Ahmed Jan: Founder of modern Pashto The history of Pashto cannot be considered complete without the mention of one notable personality, Ahmad Jan, who laid the foundations of modern Pashto literature in pre-partition India.... SYNDICATED: How Buddha was erased in India On January 15, 1784, the great orientalist Sir William Jones docked at Calcutta aboard the Crocodile. Less than six weeks after he had landed Jones had gathered together 30 Indophiles, to... SYNDICATED: Dead men do tell tales A professor whose entire family has died in a plane crash, leaving him so ravaged by grief that he becomes like a zombie stumbling through a living death; a silent movie... CHILDREN’S BOOKS: Iqbal made interesting With all the customary fanfare, the year 2002 was declared the year of Iqbal by the concerned authorities. It was a sad, lacklustre year. What could have been an occasion of... CHILDREN’S BOOKS: Story of a pearl For years Afghanistan has writhed in the aftermath of the war with Russia. The pain and pilferage spewed from the war left the country reeling for so long, but there still... CHILDREN’S BOOKS: Take time out for mime If you can’t get to see a mime show, then read Batool Mahmood’s book about it. Ssshhh....its mime time is a wonderful visual experience combined with a short history of mime... REVIEWS: A culture built on lies Meg Greenfield, a former editor of The Washington Post makes a stunning observation in her book Washington. She says: “The entire fabric of America’s political culture would become completely dysfunctional without... REVIEWS: Expression of man’s soul Among the teenage millions who were swept off their feet by Beatlemania in the sixties were my mom and aunts. Two months ago a colleague of mine, aptly named Jude, travelled... REVIEWS: Religion and environment During the past ‘five decades of development’ and the three decades of environmental movement, cultural factors have been largely ignored. The main reason, perhaps, is the dominance of the modernization paradigm... REVIEWS: Whose story is it? Ranajit Guha’s contributions to historiography and historical research are beyond dispute. His essays on subaltern history have opened up new horizons and created a sub-field that is both critical, inspired and... REVIEWS: The North American Muslims Muslims in North America find themselves in a paradoxical situation. They represent one of the major civilizations of the world They reside as a minority among a community which is also...

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