July 6, 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 At the heart of the matter COMBINED with my proposal that social development be relinked with the concept of society, we can now identify four common themes. These are the main categories of desirable processes that can be... Excerpts: The players’ revolt AS THE first Test approached, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced its decision to retain me as captain for the series. This announcement led to a public declaration of revolt, in which several players gave a written statement to the Board... Articles: Voice of the Iranian diaspora WITH Iraq under an increasingly uneasy American-British military occupation and the Western rhetoric heating up towards supposedly their next target, Iran, it is interesting to know how the Iranians living in... Author: Unbelievably prolific IT WAS his prolixity which prompted a person like the late Dr Syed Abdullah to pose this question to Anwar Sadeed: “First tell me, how do you find time for eating and sleeping? From the speed with which your informative and unique books are... Author: Wraiths and race IT WAS the same with The Phantom Menace — I had no choice. When part of your childhood is playing down the road on a big screen with surround sound and popcorn, there’s no escape. But as the wonder of discovering that there was more... Syndicated Reviews: Numbers you can’t count on MATHEMATICS is the foundation of all science, and a pack of lies. Maths underpins physics, philosophy, economics and statistics. Without it we would be unable to build a democracy, which depends on the ability to count and the belief that counting matters..... Syndicated Reviews: See me after class ZOE Heller’s first novel, Everything You Know, was greeted with surprising acrimony when it was published in 1999. She was someone who had subjected readers to endless musings on ‘my boyfriend’... Review: Is this the real Osama? ROHAN Gunaratna, an expert on terrorism who has worked for the United Nations and served as a consultant to several governments and corporations, has pieced together this fascinating story about the... Review: Playing Robin Hood? GEORGE Soros, a financial wizard with a Midas touch, also came to be known as “a man who broke the Bank of England” in the early 90s. By his masterly manipulation... Review: A complex problem IT IS an unfortunate fact that the greatest number of malnourished children reside in Asia. According to estimates one in every third child there is malnourished. And this phenomenon is not... Review: The woman’s perspective KNOWLEDGE is defined as certain sets of explicit observations perceived to be true, supported by implicit assumptions and worldviews held by the observer. To locate knowledge in its proper context, it becomes imperative to define the... Review: Keeping an eye on the banks A CHRONICLE of a nation’s economic development can have all the potential to induce tedium. And if the narration lacks zip and ginger, too, it can bore one to death.... Review: Battling poverty the new way CREDIT for the poor used to be a frivolous concept. Recently granting small loans — microfinancing or microcredit — to help poor people start their own businesses has become a popular... Review: Dilemmas of royalty PERHAPS no one can deny late King Hussein of Jordan’s unrelenting quest for peace in the Middle East or that bringing stability to the region was his lifelong dream, or that... In brief DR KARIM Khuwaja, a noted social and political activist, has compiled this book on the Indus delta with great love and commitment. Indus Valley — Environmental and Deltaic Crisis narrates the... Review: A fascinating world SYED Rafiq Husain, whose 58th death anniversary falls this year, is the only Urdu fiction writer to have explored the triumph and despair of the wildlife of the Terai area of...

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