March 9, 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 So strong, yet so vulnerable EXPERTS have shown that a shortfall in the relative number of girls is by no means a natural phenomenon, but essentially a region- and culture-specific social construct. The sex ratio in the Indian child population actually starts tilting... Excerpts: The outpouring THE 1947 partition remains the defining moment in the modern history of the Indian subcontinent. Contemporary communal and national stereotypes draw sustenance from the climacteric events which accompanied the British decision... Articles: Making sense of the war on Iraq “IT’S hard,” said Aqbal Fartus, a primary school teacher in the southern port city of Basra. “It’s very, very, very hard because you can’t do much other than wait for the... Articles: Silencing women OF course the headline is bound to generate guffaws — as it will be considered oxymoronic. And this is precisely the dilemma faced by women writers, especially those who write on... Articles: Articulating emerging realities THE new world order, the hegemony of the US and globalization are bringing about profound economic and political changes in societies. The emerging single global, economic, social and political structure is... Author: Blazing the feminist trail IN the late eighteenth century the great intellectual and political movements, which accompanied the American and the French Revolutions, shaped the freedom struggles of a future generation based on the idea... Syndicated Reviews: An empire laid low by silver and gold THE conquistadors were wrongly named. The brave men who crossed the Atlantic to “discover” the new world were neither all-conquering, nor all Spanish. Perhaps they should have been called adventurers, collaborators... Syndicated Reviews: Death becomes her, again THE appearance of Donna Tartt’s second novel has been an event rather than just a publication. That happens from time to time, but the media rarely act in concert over a... Review: Indian X-ray of Pakistan WE in Pakistan too often get so bogged down in the daily problems and crises that afflict the state and the individual that we lose sight of the larger picture. As... Review: The new synthesis ALEXANDER the Great of Macedonia established a vast empire in the 330s and 320s BC by storming eastward across the globe from his northern Greek homeland as far as today’s Pakistan,... Review: A tale of unrequited love ALREADY a bestseller in India, Feryal Ali Gauhar’s first novel, The Scent of Wet Earth in August, awaits a homecoming, not unlike her documentary “Tibbi Galli”, on which the book is... Review: The fly on the wall IF journalism programmes across the world saw a sudden increase in applications in the mid-to-late seventies, much credit goes to Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward whose crack investigative reporting ultimately led... Review: Will the world survive? THE 20th anniversary issue of the State of the World, major annual publication of the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute, appears at a time when the three-decade-old environmental movement is faced with the... Review: The inevitable fight THE Devil and Miss Prym is the third in the Brazilian author Paulo Coelho’s trilogy. It delves into the lives of ordinary people who are suddenly confronted with vital questions concerning... In brief ONE of the major causes of the backwardness of Muslim societies all over the world, is their lack of interest in science and technology. Although Muslims had made valuable contributions in... Review: Minced meat THIS one comes spiked with some of the forbidden creative juices. But since the collection is compiled by none other than the faithful Pakistan Academy of Letters, dig your teeth deeper...

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