September 28, 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 Living through fire LAST night, fed up of the endless bombings, I slept. Today, I wake up in a similar frame of mind. For these past few days Iraq has been reeling under vindictive American aerial attacks. To shield the country from this onslaught, Mother Nature has brought... Excerpts: Family ties A STURDY cement ramp, which started at the front door of my father’s house, cut across the deteriorating garden and ended at the iron gates that opened up to the street. The gates had not been closed for many years... Articles: Dividing Kali for Women NEARLY 20 years after it was founded Kali for Women, India’s first feminist publishing house will be dividing into two imprints — Zubaan and Women Unlimited. The publishing house was founded... Articles: A shared activity: Reading Books A MOTHER once told me that she was surprised when her teenage daughter became a voracious reader when she entered a new grade in school. Reading was the young girl’s... Articles: Peak practice IN 1802, on a stormy summer’s afternoon in the Lake District, Samuel Coleridge is playing a game of Russian roulette. Standing on the summit of Scafell, a stubby, precipitous mountain if... Articles: The ultimate relaxation READING is my ultimate relaxation,” says Dr Anwar Siddiqui, “and I just have to read something before I go to bed. Since early childhood, it was Urdu stories and Urdu comics that appealed to me as the influence of English literature... Author: Reinterpreting a forgotten past WILLIAM Dalrymple, describes himself as “an honorary desi”, dresses in shalwar kameez, says he loves “chappals, chai, filmi music, spicey khanna” and is so much at home here, that it is... Syndicated Reviews: Selling love and buying freedom THIS is Western feminism’s dirty little secret. Behind the glorious image of the have-it-all woman in the Armani suit, with a Gucci briefcase on one arm and a baby tucked under... Syndicated Reviews: Family at war — with itself ASNE Seierstad had a good idea. A Norwegian journalist who covered the fall of the Taliban in November 2001, she found a seemingly sympathetic, educated, Afghan bookseller in Kabul and moved... Review: The war we lost GEORGE Crile’s sensational account of Charlie Wilson’s war is introduced as “the untold story of a whiskey-swilling, skirt-chasing, scandal-prone congressman from Texas, and how he conspired with a rogue CIA operative... Review: Follow my leader PAKISTAN’S founding father, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, once called Liaquat Ali Khan, honorary secretary of the Muslim League, his “right arm, not his mind”. The description was very apt; Jinnah wanted nobody... Review: Bowling and batting TWO of the country’s most celebrated cricketers, Fazal Mahmood and Javed Miandad have come out with their autobiographies. Both cricketers reached the status of legends in their own lifetimes — Fazal... Review: The man who changed Punjab AMONGST a large number of civil servants and army officers in the East India Company (EICo), there were quite a few who were benign, kind-hearted and benevolent. One such person was... Review: Meet the terrorists CO-AUTHORED by Yosri Fouda of the Al Jazeera Channel and Nick Fielding of the Sunday Times, Masterminds of Terror begins like a detective story. In April 2002 Fouda, who is based... Review: Doubly handicapped THE BOOK, Women, Disability and Identity, touches an inner chord. It also left me disturbed over our voracious need for human perfection. So much so that disabled people, women being a... Review: Half truth, half fiction AT A time when the reading public’s preoccupation with the fad of ‘X, Y or Z made simple’ is waning (and mercifully so), it’s back to literature as literature should be....

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