May 25, 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 great mismatch SO the improvement of the human species is a possibility which no human being is qualified to fulfil and its pursuit risks the very survival of that possibility itself. But what if the re-engineering of humanity were a necessity, rather than a mere possibility... Excerpts: Action and reaction IT is a law of physics (still on the books when last I looked) that in nature there is no action without reaction. The same appears to be true in human nature — that is, history. In the last six years, two dates are apt to be remembered for longer than... Articles: Big Brother was watching A NEW book on the writer George Orwell, George Orwell, (Little Brown), reveals that a British volunteer spied on the writer for the Soviet Union during the Spanish civil war.... Articles: From the rural perspective FOR over fifteen years I have studied the interaction of rural people with the rural support programmes (RSPs) that work as non-profit private organizations in Pakistan. An understanding of the perspectives of rural people is important... Author: With an eye for detail HE opens the door with a benevolent smile. He could be a surgeon opening the door for a patient about to undergo general anaesthesia. He could be an astute short story... Syndicated Reviews: Missing you already... ITALO Calvino wasn’t anti-Semitic and the unanswerable accusation of anti-Semitism isn’t appropriate here, but the way he notices Jews and writes about them is of great interest and peculiarity. The presence... Syndicated Reviews: The moneyed aristocracy THIS exceedingly interesting study of old and new money in 19th-century New York City can be read as a companion piece to the fiction of Henry James and, most particularly, Edith... Children''s Book Review: Change is good for you THE ‘for teenagers’ version of Who Moved My Cheese? was like one of those self-help books which try to explain profound truths in too simple a way. Change is inevitable, one... Children''s Book Review: Return to Hogwarts IN this day and age everything is manipulated, so if you want a bestseller or a hit movie, create enough hype to achieve the goal. But the important ingredient is the story, without which publicity would fall flat on its face. Thus Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s... Children''s Book Review: For the little ones IT has often been felt that there is a dearth of good books for children in Urdu, specially for children of primary classes. It is a pleasant change to see a... Children''s Book Review: A celebration of childhood SO what if only for a short while, a good imaginative tale should provide the reader with a chance to breakaway from reality to step into the world of make belief.... Review: Voice of peace in Kashmir SCHOLARS and researchers have written reams about the male poet-saints of the India-Pakistan subcontinent. Very little information is available on the life and work of its women poet-saints. The prominent among... Review: Romance, movie stars and termites MUSHARRAF Farooqi’s first novel Salar Jang’s Passion, (Indian edition as Passion Among the Termites) marks the debut of yet another talented English language writer of Pakistani origin. The author, who is... Review: For moral and social reform AFTER the decline of the Mughal political power in India, several revivalist and reformist religious movements emerged with the aim of purifying Islam that was polluted by adopting the Hindu social... Review: Body beautiful IF only I could tell you to go out and buy Hanif Kureishi’s short story collection, The Body — and leave it at that. If I could, I’d give it a four-and-a-half star rating (five being the tops) and hope that you’d read it and agree with me and life would carry on as usual.... Review: How the Muslims reacted PAKISTAN lost no time in joining the US-led war against international terrorism declared by President Bush immediately after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the... In brief GEOGRAPHY is an important subject particularly in the present context of world affairs. Here is a geography book focusing on Pakistan. Pakistan: Borders and Beyond covers mostly all aspects of this... Review: Sir Syed’s rationalism OF all the Muslim thinkers of South Asia in the last two centuries Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was undoubtedly the most rational in his approach and ideas. Sir Syed influenced his...

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