March 30, 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 Promoting cult of stupidity TRAGEDIES are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of September 11, 2001 are no exception... A torrent of images and descriptions has made... Excerpts: Nuclear terrorism THE most pessimistic and alarming scenario for the future of Pakistan and the safety and security of its nuclear arsenal is that Pakistan will increasingly become ungovernable. The writ of the government will be extremely limited or nonexistent... Excerpts: Who is to blame? WITH only half of Pakistan’s rural population being provided water through government sources, many observers may well be led to believe that this is a clear case of government failure. Yet, such conclusions ignore the way... Articles: Modernity from the west UNTIL 1909, Pushto literature was confined to book pages in the form of poetry and dastaan (classic literature), then Hakim Syed Abdullah Shah, editor of Afghan, introduced it in the columns... Articles: A new Bronte novella A NOVELLA, Stanliffe’s Hotel written by Charlotte Bronte has been published for the first time. The novella was kept in a museum for years. Bronte a 19th-century author, famous for... Author / Articles: Friend of Pakistan IN Professor Annemarie Schimmel, Pakistan has lost a warm-hearted friend, and the world of Islam and the world of scholarship have lost an outstanding scholar. Taking first thing first, she was... Author / Articles: How to promote art and literature DO art and literature still matter? Do we really need a local-intellectual perspective of national and international affairs? What are our national institutions/organizations doing for the development and promotion of art and literature? These are some of the burning questions for those who are anxious about the future of art and literature in Pakistan.... Author: Germany’s conscience PIPE between teeth and apron firmly tied, Gunter Grass crunches across the gravel from his remote two-storey farmhouse to the barn where his creative muses visit him. Grass the sculptor works... Syndicated Reviews: Dispatches from the edge of death FIVE years ago Horst Faas and Tim Page published Requiem, a homage to the 135 photographers who died while covering the wars in Indochina and Vietnam. The work of Larry Burrows,... Syndicated Reviews: DNA for innocence RECENTLY, science commemorated a remarkable anniversary: the unravelling, 50 years ago, of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, the golden molecule from which our genes are made and which directs the... Review: Incisive letters WHEN the west erupted in anti-war demonstrations and the people stood up to the jingoistic policies of George Bush, it was felt that finally Tiziano Terzani’s Letters Against the War would... Review: Twists of fortune JEFFERY Archer’s long-anticipated new novel Sons of Fortune is garnering a lot of publicity, much of it unrelated to the quality of the book. Having had to resign from political office... Review: Educating for progress AFTER the 1857 uprising, when the British got total control over India and peace was enforced in the country, the government introduced a number of reforms. The most important — and... Review: A dangerous game ANYTHING human is not alien. But some groups with strong ideological convictions refuse to accept this fact. They do not even hesitate to resort to violence, making their refusal known through... Review: The war has begun THE Bush Administration’s strategy of “preemptive war” is the brainchild of a small circle of conservative think tanks — a coalition of right wingers whose members have been pushing for this... Review: In a hornet’s nest NAHEED Qamar is a budding poet whose poems have been published in important literary journals of the country. This book is based on her Master’s thesis which she has expanded to...

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