September 14, 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 Big or small: the wiser choice THE VIEW of water as ‘commons’ or as a ‘common pool resource’ (CPR) is strongly advocated and is attractive, but two points need to be noted. The first is that the notion of ‘commons’ (as distinguished from private ownership) is of easy... Excerpts: English, Urdu or...? ENGLISH-language schools — that is, schools where the teachers really teach in English, and the pupils are from privileged Anglophone backgrounds — are too expensive for middle and working class families.... Articles: Everybody’s publisher WITH world economies trembling, like most businesses, getting published is no longer an easy option today, not only for novices but also for established authors. However, if you feel too keen... Articles: Rumi’s message of love THE poetry and philosophy of one of the greatest Sufi-poets of Islam, Jalaluddin Rumi, who lived in thirteenth century Konya in present day Turkey, is currently attracting unprecedented interest in the... Articles: The personal connection WHEN there’s no school and no engagements to keep, Mrs Wazir Ali is surely indulging in what has been her favourite pastime from as far back as she can remember — reading. “I like reading about things that are true and current,” she informs me.... Author: Radical to the core “I AM the quintessential late bloomer. In fact I have no recollection of reading as a child. It is only later when I went to University in London that I discovered... Syndicated Reviews: The African experience IN A FEW days I hope to return to my native Angola and see family members and places I have not seen since 1976. Many in the vast Angolan Diaspora are... Syndicated Reviews: Observing the rich and powerful IT IS customary when describing the phenomenon of Candace Bushnell’s success to employ some manner of comparison with Jane Austen, usually invoking a designer accessory — “Jane Austen in Manolos”, “Jane... Review: With cloak and dagger AUGUST 22, 1920, Lawrence of Arabia in an article published in the Sunday Times observed that the British had gone into the Middle East with insufficient understanding of the area and... Review: The voice of our times LEAFING through the pages of War Talk, Arundhati Roy’s latest collection of political essays, one is reminded of Baby Kochamma, the eighty-three-year-old grandaunt in The God of Small Things, the author’s... Review: Dimensions of history WRITING a history textbook is a very difficult and complex process. It requires not only competence but sound scholarship on the part of the writer. The author or authors must be... Review: Plots within plots THE trouble with reviewing fiction is that one has to tread carefully, lest one gives out too much of the plot while voicing, or as in this case, penning one’s opinion.... Review: Think global, act local THE authors of the book under review, who are American academics, believe that indigenous and locally-based solutions must be found to the economic problems societies face today. Hence their approach is to build the economy from within and then link it with the regional and global economy.... Review: History, science and everything in between DAN Brown’s latest thriller The Da Vinci Code marries the best of action-packed adventure with reverting esoteria that he relates lucidly and memorably. One minute it feels like you’re in an... Review: Tryst with the past PERSIAN, poetry and pantheism used to be very popular among the Muslims of the subcontinent. The combination of these three elements led to the rise of Sufi poetry in India which... Review: Over to China TARAR fans generally don’t have to wait long for a new book from him. He is prolific and being popular too, he can make a living purely from his writings. In...

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