March 2, 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 In changing times FOR the second time in a quarter of a century, Pakistan became a frontline state because of this country’s geographical location next to Afghanistan. This time the crisis was attributed to the Taliban government’s policy of providing sanctuary to a group... Excerpts: The role of the media BECAUSE of their reach, the media can inform poor and marginalized people, giving them voice as well. Radio broadcasts reaching poor areas where illiteracy is high are particularly effective in this. And because of the media’s ability to provide... Articles: Why they learnt Pushto THE study of the literary history of Pushto in the colonial period is often a neglected field. Pushto or Pukhto, like many other oriental languages, prospered under the British rule. During... Articles: Writings that all may read “THE virtue of books is to be readable,” said Ralf Waldo Emerson, the veteran American author and philosopher, (1803-1882). Emerson encountered blindness. When he wrote this, presumably, he did not have... Articles: Poets against war AS the prospect of war looms ahead, few people have other things on their mind. Picking up on the mood of the moment, over 100 English-language poets banded together to produce... Author: Introducing sufism TO many people, Dr Martin Lings is known for producing an unusually structured account of the life of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in his most celebrated of books, Muhammad: His Life... Author: Appearance and reality WILL Self has been making headlines since the publication of his short-story collection, The Quantity Theory of Insanity (1991). Dorian, his fourth novel, has just been published... Syndicated Reviews: Embarking on a new life READING On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern World is like being at a high altitude: the air is thin, the going sometimes tough — I took it in small, vertiginous steps — but the view is dazzling. Rose is a feminist academic... Syndicated Reviews: Web of social relationships JANET Browne opens the second volume of her biography of Darwin in 1858, at the point when he received Alfred Russel Wallace’s letter from the East Indies, containing Wallace’s theory of natural selection and the development of new species. This alarmed the slowly cumulative writer of what was to become The Origin of Species... Review: In the minds of the rank and file THE 1971 East Pakistan conflict represents the biggest skeleton in the closet of our collective national history. To the Pakistani nationalist, the debacle represents the day that Mr Jinnah’s Pakistan died.... Review: Facing the odds I READ this biography very soon after I had seen a television documentary about Ernest Shackleton’s third expedition to Antarctica. It set me wondering about the tricky interplay between a portrait... Review: Growth, but no redistribution THE book is a probing, multifaceted critique that makes visible the complexity of India’s developmental and democratic system. It is an insightful treatise in which Sharma sifts fact from fiction and... Review: A woman of two cultures KUMA Kelage was born to a warrior chief in a remote village in the Chimbu Province of Papua New Guinea. She “drank milk from her many mothers, and grew; leaning against... Review: Exile and disorientation IN life I have found there are several categories into which most books fall, although rarely neatly. There are those that you finish reading and they leave a fresh imprint on... Review: Charting a different course THE first prominent practitioner of the art of modern fiction in both Urdu and Hindi was Munshi Premchand. According to the editor of the three serial anthologies of Hindi short stories... Review: Frightening facts FACTS can be more frightening than fiction. If you do not believe this, read the book under review. It is a collection of articles on the plight of Sindhi women, particularly...

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