March 16, 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 Paying the price THE September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States presented Pakistan with a stark choice: either make common cause with Washington in its war against the Al Qaeda network based in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan or persist with... Excerpts: Red-letter day LIKE every other thing, Pakistan as a newly-born country in August 1947, had to make a fresh beginning even in cricket. Luckily there was no dearth of the infrastructure in the shape of clubs in Lahore. The provincial setup, Northern India Cricket Association (NICA), used to field a strong and well-balanced side in the Ranji Trophy.... Excerpts: An emotional safety valve IT must be mentioned at the outset that at present in India there are virtually no political parties or even religious organizations or institutions that command the following of or represent Muslims in great numbers. The same is true of Muslim... Articles: Thinking like a Pathan THE credit for undertaking the most comprehensive work on Pushto language accomplished by any author during the colonial period goes to Henry George Raverty who was a military lieutenant of the Bombay Army.... Articles: Dangers of text messaging THE gloomy prophecy by Alan Wells of the Government’s Basic Skills Agency that children’s vocabularies and communications skills are being dramatically cauterized by text messaging, television, Play-Stations and working parents who... Author: Cry in the wilderness SURROUNDED by Sadequains, Buddhas and Mughal miniatures, a stout, bearded and bespectacled man with greying hair looks affectionately at small cards, stuck along the bookshelves. The notes on the cards remind... Syndicated Reviews: The good society WE are all shoppers now. As market economies extend over most of the globe, consumer purchases serve as the most visible badges of pleasure, taste, status and aspiration — the heart... Syndicated Reviews: How to survive in nomad’s land THE remote village of Tsengel, a settlement of about 1,000 people, is the most western village in Mongolia, home to the diaspora of Muslim Kazakhs and regarded as a forbidding place,... Review: What Muslim scholarship meant THE colonial era in India is remarkable for creating a kind of intellectual unease and ferment among the intelligentsia. The religious intelligentsia responded by several movements of reforming Islam so as... Review: Where are we heading? ALAN Hedley is Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He got the idea of writing a book on the dilemmas of globalization while preparing for his... Review: Of dalit upsurge PROFESSOR A.R. Desai says the Hindu caste system “is the most systematized structure of inequality,founded upon the principle of birth” (Capitalist Development, 1990). But strangely only the Left stands for its... Review: Death by sanctions AT a time when the world waits with baited breath for the impending American war on Iraq, Iraq under Siege comes as a reminder that the people of that besieged country... Review: The intermediary cities MEGACITIES owe their development to intermediary cities. Because of their small size and the face-to-face social interaction of their people, intermediary cities supply the resources and inputs to help the national... Review: Critical factor AS is widely believed by business management scholars and practitioners, ethics in business management is no fiction. In fact good ethics is believed to be good business. Business ethics is taught... Review: Thinking alike DR Emil Ghitulescu, Romanian ambassador to Pakistan, has found a surprising resemblance between Dr Allama Mohammad Iqbal and his country’s national poet, Mihai Eminescu. Both were poet philosophers. They had denounced... Review: Nostalgic for history A PASSION for history is an essential ingredient of the South Asian psyche. This is despite the daunting fact that we hardly ever learn from history, or use it as the...

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