May 4, 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 Here comes the hyperpower AMERICA is thus not so much an old-fashioned imperial power seeking its ‘spheres of influence’ and competing with other imperial powers: it is a hyperpower with no equivalent. Hardly surprising, then, that “Alias” (ABC’s television... Excerpts: Reflecting the impulses HAD Lahore been accepted by the rest of the world as the epicentre of the universe — which native born Lahoris are convinced it is anyway — it would have conformed to the Big Bang theory, for from the moment of its first creation before... Articles: Chekov’s 11th step “CHEKOV’S eleventh step” has finally been taken. “Choosing the concrete for the abstract” Faqir S. Aijazuddin’s book Lahore Recollected: An Album is “viably visual”, so said Majid Sheikh, this paper’s feature... Articles: Finding the right medium MUCH has been written about the seemingly irresistible advance of English as a global language of communication. There is plenty of evidence of this in statistics relating to Internet use, in papers given at international conferences and in the media and publishing industries. Until recently, however, the status of English in state school... Articles: Books on tapes SNEAK a peek at the history of world civilizations. The scenario tells you that “literature was spoken before it was written”. Three instances seem adequate to prove this fact, though scores... Articles: The barbarians at work THE time was a sultry summer evening of the year 2000. The place: the courtyard of a house in an upper middle-class neighbourhood in Shiraz, Iran. Our host was treating us... Author: Baba-i-Pushto KHUSHHAL Khan Khattak, or “Khan Baba” as he is fondly called, has contributed immensely to the Pushto language. Researchers and critics have enlisted him as a great warrior, philosopher, scholar, social reformer, political visionary, moralist, historian... Author: The poet of awakening WHENEVER he was called on the stage of a political rally to recite his revolutionary poetry, the audience welcomed him with shouts of his most popular lines: Jage piyo, hoo jaagan... Syndicated Reviews: A timely question of faith ONE of the ways the world changed forever on September 11, 2001, was that the western people suddenly acquired an interest in Islam. Hitherto they had tended either to regard the... Syndicated Reviews: Lipstick wars “BLACK paint around the eyes is such a familiar convention it seems natural,” Angela Carter wrote in 1975, “so does red paint on the mouth. We are so used to the... Review: Struggle till the end “BLESSED art thou, O Lord our God and King of the Universe, that thou did not create me a woman”, say the orthodox male Jews in their morning prayers. Plato thanked... Review: Unravelling a mystery LETHAL as the name may appear, Gail Bell’s first full length work of non fiction is, at best, proof of her dedication to unravelling the mystery shrouding Grandfather Macbeth’s reputation rather... Review: Bribes from public purse DO bribes get accounted for in a nation’s GDP estimates? The popular notion is, they don’t. But an economist of importance tells us they do, albeit indirectly. Barring smuggling, most illegal... Review: Food security for all THE state of South Asia’s agricultural economy and human development has failed to reduce poverty to the estimated extent, despite some consistent economic growth since 1960. The reason for this failure... Review: From Pakistan with love THE Inter Services Intelligence Agency or ISI is undoubtedly Pakistan’s highest profile Intelligence service. In recent years, the ISI has been accused of being a state within a state, of sabotaging democracy and of sponsoring proxy wars in the neighbourhood.... Review: Here comes the king of legal fiction WHEN John Grisham released The Firm in 1992, he single-handedly made legal fiction the genre. Soon, anyone who was someone had a copy of that paperback and then later every other... In brief GOOD physicians are hard to find. One with a healthy sense of humour is even rare. But if you add another quality, that of being being able to write good Urdu prose, to the list of criteria, the number will diminish to a very few. Dr Syed Aslam belongs to this rarest of the rare category. One could read his books... Review: Justification of history A.R. SIDDIQUI’S book came to me as a surprise. I had not known him as an, imaginative stylish writer of Urdu prose, but of course he is a cultured Dilliwala, quite...

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