November 9, 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 New party, new face Neither the violent disruption of the Gol Bagh meeting, nor the government’s attempts to discredit him, deflected Bhutto from his political course, nor dissuaded his closest followers from their support.... EXCERPTS: Looking for lost friends Seth sahib dropped in again the next morning. Amma Jan took him to the other room and I ran and stood in the veranda to listen to what they were saying.... ARTICLES: Iqbal’s relevance today Let’s be honest about this. A reference to Iqbal often generates sneers or boredom. So much for 56 years of celebrating Iqbal as the national poet — and celebrating him to... ARTICLES: Stray reflections Through most of 1910, Iqbal entered his thoughts in a little private notebook to which he gave the title, Stray Reflections. Seventeen of these entries were later sent for publication in... ARTICLES: Who says people don’t buy books? September has become a month of book-lovers in Karachi. Each year leading publishers and booksellers launch their book fairs traditionally during this month. Oxford University Press, Liberty, Paramount, Welcome Book Port... ARTICLES: Looking back “I had stopped reading books, I was reading only magazines,” says Hassan N. Ansari. “But lately I discovered some great bookstores at our airports. This is certainly a great service to... AUTHOR: Debbie Macomber: Magnificent obsession An author of over 100 novels, with 60 million copies in print, both paperback and hardcover, Debbie Macomber is proclaimed as one of the most beloved romance writers in the United... REVIEWS: Lessons learnt in East Timor In 1999, the United Nations achieved one of its rare successes in East Timor and Ambassador Jamsheed Marker’s book East Timor — a Memoir of the Negotiations for Independence is a... REVIEWS: Awash with heroin It is, admittedly, difficult to conceive of it more than a quarter-century later, but let’s suppose for a moment that the democratic experiment tentatively embarked upon in the dying days of... REVIEWS: Choreographing life In Pakistan, much of what we know of Iran is dominated by the post-revolution scenario, since the overthrow of the Shah, Reza Shah Pehlavi, by the Ayatollah Khomeini and his religious... REVIEWS: Green Berets in action Ever since his international debut with The Hunt for the Red October, Tom Clancy has somewhat become a cult figure of sorts. With over a dozen international best selling books, Mr... REVIEWS: Inciting the first labour strike Marilyn French’s definition of feminism is “the belief that women matter as much as men do”. In her book, From Eve to Dawn, she set out to find a non-patriarchal past... REVIEWS: The ardent pilgrim Milton wrote to justify the ways of God to Man. Iqbal wrote to justify the ways of Man to God. From his work Iqbal emerges as a truly universal poet. His... IN BRIEF he habit of constantly disregarding our past is one of the main reasons for the missing links in our history. The British were aware of this weakness well before they captured Sindh....

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