July 27, 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 Recalling radical days JAWAHARLAL Nehru would have noticed quite a number of familiar faces in the sprawling convocation pandal. Next to him on the podium sat Nawab Mohammad Ismail Khan, the vice-chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University..... Excerpts: In quest of the bear THE year 1943 saw me in Srinagar, the capital of the state of Kashmir. My plan was to go into the mountains beyond, as far as Gilgit and Skardu, and collect some specimens of the famous Himalayan big game about which I had read seductive accounts in books.... Articles: Mission to Kabul EVERYTHING changes: everything remains the same. Flying into Kabul, via ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross), began with the usual waiver of responsibility that must be signed, warning the passenger of flying bullets... Articles: A taste of real life THE number of books Chris Abbas has read over the years must be in thousands. As a child she loved to read The Adventures of Johnny Chuck by Thorton W. Burgess. The stories in the series, which are based in the country, provided her with a means of imaginary escape from life in the city. But she has always been a slow reader... Articles: Pulitzer, Orange and many others CANADIAN novelist Carol Shields died of breast cancer. She was 68. Shields wrote poetry, criticism and biography, but focused on the novel when her first novel, Small Ceremonies, was published in... Author: Celebrating life KARACHI-born Firoza Punthakey Mistree has done her city, and her family and friends proud by co-editing and co-producing one of the most invaluable publications to have come out of her adopted... Syndicated Reviews: So close yet so far away AT the end of March, Peter Stothard and I were in the first-class lounge of Kennedy Airport near New York, awaiting the return of Tony Blair who was at the United... Syndicated Reviews: Memory lane? Don’t go there WHAT is it about the past that is so appealing? All those what-ifs and maybes have tempted nine million hopeful travellers to join the Friends Reunited charabanc and head off on... Review: Tracking the wanderers THE book under review mainly concentrates on the changes brought in the lives of the nomadic tribes of Balochistan by the British colonial rulers and the Pakistani state. It also deals... Review: Power play and Israel STEPHEN Zunes, the author of this book and a professor of politics at San Francisco, believes the US betrays its own principles and traditions in pursuing a policy in the Middle... Review: Revelling in colours AS soon as I finished reading The Miniaturist, I felt I must find out something about its author, Kunal Basu. The book only mentions that his first novel, The Opium Clerk was much acclaimed and that he lives in Oxford where he teaches at Templeton College.... Review: Unravelling the mystery SINCE the time of Alexander the Great to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Pathans have inhabited a land stretching from southern Afghanistan to the North West Frontier Province of... Review: Woman in a new light THIS thought-provoking book, which sheds light on some crucial aspects of Quranic teachings, is definitely going to serve as an eye-opener for the readers, particularly women. In view of the widespread... Review: Through Iraqi eyes NUHA Alradi’s Baghdad Diaries were first published in 1998 (some parts having been published in Granta the Cambridge journal in 1992) and covered the period of the 1991 Gulf War while... In brief THOUGH many travelogues have been written in Urdu, Safar Kub Tuk? is different in many respects. The book travels with time and space, covering phenomenal changes in the modes of transportation and the attitudes and reflexes of several generations. The description is so graphic that the readers become part of the writer’s experiences.... Review: Till politics took over HALQA-I-ARBAB-I-ZAUQ has served as an academic institution to promote and patronize literature in Pakistan. Although presently the Halqa is more or less in a fossilized and decadent state, it is regarded...

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