June 15, 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 A modern-day granny Deep at night, the men came, killed the old woman’s son, set her house on fire and left. The old woman did not know why the men were angry with her... EXCERPTS: Wives of a few bureaucrats We, the wives of a few bureaucrats, Turn our faces to you, O Lord, save us, Devastated in relaxation are we,... ARTICLE: Bangla short story: Touched by war, class differences and... The war of liberation in 1971 not only gave birth to Bangladesh but also gave a new impetus to its literature. The short story genre was particularly affected by the phenomenal... ARTICLE: Bangla prose: Building a new order Bangladesh and its writers went through a crucial transforming event in 1971. In a thousand years’ history of the Bengali nation nothing like this had ever happened before. From March 25... ARTICLE: Bangla poetry: Under the shadow of politics “Not everyone is a poet... only some are.” This famous remark by the best known of the South Asian modernists and yet the uniquely Bangali poet from the 30s, Jibananda Das,... AUTHOR: Humayun Azad: The maverick When Bangla literature is passing through a barren period, Humayun Azad stands out for his prolific literary output. With a total of some seventy publications to his credit, the quantum of... AUTHOR: Shamsur Rahman: Bangladesh’s poet-citizen Yannis Ritsos, the great modern Greek poet, was once asked by the military dictator who then ruled Greece, “You are a poet. Why do you get involved in politics?” Ritsos’ proud... REVIEWS: Affirmations of imagination Prolific writer, political activist and something of a cult figure in French leftist circles, Bernard-Henri Levy was launched on his career in the 70s by his critical reporting of Pakistan’s Bangladesh... REVIEWS: Controversial choices An Artist’s Impression of the Golden Greats of Pakistan Cricket is what it says it is. The drawings have been provided by Shafiq Ahmad and the text by the noted writer,... REVIEWS: With death and destruction in tow No other country, besides Palestine, has suffered so much from Zionist depredations as Lebanon. War, death and destruction — and their concomitants, refugees — have been the unfortunate country’s lot ever... REVIEWS: Full circle The rise of Islamic extremism in the late 1970s coincided with four major events which shook the Islamic world — Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel in 1978, the Islamic Revolution in... REVIEWS: The ever-changing world Ernst Mayr is Emeritus professor of Zoology at Harvard University. He is the recipient of numerous honorary awards and degrees and is regarded as one of the 20th century’s leading evolutionary... REVIEWS: In good company There is a pristine naivete about Punjabi poetry that makes it at once endearing and coy. Like the land of the five rivers itself, the language also greets you with open... IN BRIEF Anatole Francois (1844-1924) who is known better by his pseudonym Anatole France is a major figure in French literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....

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