March 23, 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 massacre A MAN was lying in two pieces. There was a woman who was pregnant and I could see the arm and leg of her unborn baby poking out of her stomach. There was a man who had a shrapnel in his head. He was not dead but you could see a piece of metal in his neck, like he’d had his throat cut.... Excerpts: Quest for a bottom-up approach THE twentieth century has witnessed the emergence of a number of movements for religious revival, revitalization and reform among Muslims all over the world. Much has already been written about this phenomenon by various scholars... Articles: What are we celebrating? AFTER their decolonization, liberated nations traditionally celebrate the ‘day of their freedom’ with great pomp and show. Flags are hoisted with fanfare. The armed forces parade in all their splendour and... Articles: In the aftermath of war “AFGHAN leader’s rosy assessment stuns Senators” stated a recent headline in the Chicago Tribune after Afghan President Hamid Karzai told the Senate Foreign Committee Relations in Washington that the human rights... Articles: Crossing borders WAS it the dissertation research? Has it been the home connection? Or simply a case of exploring horizons to reach out to people who have mattered in the course of things... Articles: Out of Africa IN 1979, I decided I would travel from the north coast of Africa down to the south. In the event I only got as far as Khartoum. Having heard about the Kalash I decided to realize a childhood dream of visiting the wild North-West Frontier.... Author: Selfless scholarship SHANUL HAQ HAQQEE is a very prolific writer. If we were to divide the number of pages he has written by his age — 86 years or thereabout — we would arrive at a formidable figure. An ordinary mortal would shudder at the very idea of matching such a colossal literary output.... Syndicated Reviews: Future wrapped in stars and stripes THE tone — knowing, incisive, contrary — seems instantly recognizable. This is 300 pages of the Economist between hard covers, wherein its knowing, incisive and sometimes quite contrary editor extrapolates his... Syndicated Reviews: Pleasures of childhood fantasies PHILIP Sidney wrote enticingly of the excitement of “a take which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner”. We get hooked on stories before we are old... Review: Bridging the great divide WILLIAM Dalrymple was engrossed in researching his latest book, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India, when the flames of East-West discontent reduced New York’s Twin Towers to rubble on... Review: To be truly influential I OPEN such do-it-yourself (or how-to) books with great trepidation and yet somehow like any other person am susceptible to them. Trepidation because it seems that once having started reading them, these books make me feel that my life and my relationships with my near and dear ones are at the brink. It also becomes crystal clear to me that... Review: Just and fair? THE book under review is the outcome of a conference held at the University of Pennsylvania, sponsored by the American Judicature Society and the Brennan Center for Justice, where 30 prominent... Review: Culled from the seasons THE ferocity of seasons has overawed man since times immemorial. Rain, storm, heat and cold have been a great challenge that have been met in various ways. Cyclical changes in weather,... Review: The return & the remembrance MILAN Kundera is one of the most distinguished novelists of the late twentieth century. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1929, he is in the pantheon of modern Czech writers that includes... Review: Supremely individual YAGANA was the founder of the anti-ghazal in Urdu. His diction was totally conventional; he chose the miniature forms of poetry; the ghazal and rubaiyi, yet his approach to life and... Review: History of Sindh through the ages SINDH has a rich history. It is unfortunate, however, that in the last 56 years, no Will Durant, Toynbee or Gibbon has emerged to record this history. Had this been done, the intellectual foundation of a comprehensive history of Pakistan would have been laid....

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