August 17, 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 Dispelling illusions Well, you don’t sit in your room somewhere and dispel illusions — very few people are capable of doing that. I mean, some people are capable of doing it, but most aren’t. Usually you find out what you think by interaction with people, otherwise you don’t know what you think... Excerpts: Big or small? I WONDERED whether they, the children about whom volumes are written, of whom pictures are taken, and with whom films are made, felt like they had lost their innocence or had their childhoods stolen as a result of work, or of life in general.... Articles: Lahore through Bapsi’s eyes FROM Manto to Mohsin Hamid, authors who have lived in Lahore, have placed their plots against the backdrop of this ancient city, but none describes it with as much intensity and... Articles: Journey to self-discovery FASCINATED by books from childhood, Dr Adil Zareef is an avid reader. His romance with books, which started at a young age with Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie, has taken him to all the big political names. Now Chomsky, Arundhati Roy.... Author: Exile on main street WITH only two books Aleksandar Hemon has established himself as that rare thing, an essential writer. He grew up in Sarajevo and now lives in Chicago. Having rejected his native Bosnian... Syndicated Reviews: SOS for language diversity PEOPLE have long believed that the world would be a happier, more peaceful and altogether better place if we all spoke one language. According to Genesis, God confounded our speech at... Syndicated Reviews: All the fun of particle physics SCIENTIFIC effort over the past 300 years has yielded an astonishing amount of information about the world we inhabit. By rights we ought to be very impressed and extremely interested. Unfortunately,... Review: America’s oil wars GORE Vidal, a prolific essayist with 56 years of writing experience and an ardent defender of the old Republic, has once again given vent to his populist voice in Dreaming War:... Review: Of lice and men IT IS amazing how uneventful a life Malka Pukhraj has lived; that is, if one were to take this very clinically cleansed autobiography at face value. Reading the book one realizes... Review: Reading people’s minds DURING the US war on Iraq, global public opinion emerged as a new potent force that, many hoped, could ultimately counterbalance the unbridled power of the world’s sole superpower. Not surprisingly,... Review: War and conscience IN 1995 Sorayya Khan’s The Shadow of the Margalla Hills was published in Canada’s well-known literary journal, The Malahat Review, as the winner of its First Novella Award. The story about... Review: Long road to freedom AS I put down the book Hala’s voice keeps ringing in my ears—“I looked out of the car window. I could not believe it. The sight of people walking free and... Review: Exotic adventure OF ALL the nations in the world, the British must hold pride of place in being the most intrepid travellers and explorers. This great tradition was set in the 19th century... Review: Raising a gentleman THOSE who have a boy in the household might sometimes feel that they’ve been blessed with a creature from another planet. Steve Biddulph, Australian family therapist and author of bestsellers Manhood... Review: So spoke Jinnah QUAID-I-AZAM Muhammad Ali Jinnah demonstrated his leadership qualities not only during the struggle for Independence but also as the first governor general of Pakistan, from August 15, 1947 to September 11,... Review: The historic verdict on riba JUSTICE Wajihuddin Ahmed has occupied high positions in the judiciary. He was a member of the Supreme Courts Shariat Appellate bench that gave the historic verdict on riba on December 23,...

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