November 23, 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 The well-trodden path Sending students into the outside world was the business of Aligarh College. Plans broached by Sayyid Mahmud in 1873 and T. W. Arnold in 1889 for creating a community of scholars were ignored and sometimes explicitly rejected.... EXCERPTS: When more is less Like other developing countries, Pakistan implemented its stabilization and structural adjustment programme with support from multilateral institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) in the late eighties and nineties..... ARTICLE: Tariq Ali speaks of peace Tariq Ali, the long time political activist, writer and speaker, has just published a devastating critique of America’s war on Iraq. Published by Verso books, Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of... ARTICLE: Frankfurt Book Fair 2003: The biggest show on earth It was quite exciting to be there at the six-day long 55th Frankfurt book fair which concluded on October 13. The world’s largest trading place for rights and licenses of books,... ARTICLE: The likes of a bookworm Till the age of five, Sibtain Naqvi would be enticed into bed by a story by his mother, grandmother, aunt or father. Then one fateful day, he was instructed to read... AUTHOR: Amjad Islam Amjad: Playing the creative role Amjad Islam Amjad is a household name in Pakistan. His has seen a career that has taken into its fold both the print and the electronic media with a comfortable excellence... REVIEWS: Beyond purgatory Elizabeth Costello is John Michael Coetzee’s new novel that tipped the scales of this year’s Nobel Prize for literature in his favour. The novel is a strange and unusual mix of... REVIEWS: Traversing different paths Dr Khalid Khan is not only a highly regarded anaesthesiologist at the Liaquat National Hospital in Karachi, but he is also one of our most prolific writers. He has written over... REVIEWS: In and out of poverty The problem with being poor is that one is so much more ill-equipped for coping with adversity than those who are materially more fortunate. No one would deny this universal truth,... REVIEWS: I spy a spy “This book is memoir of one foot soldier’s career in the other cold war, the one against terrorist networks that have no intention of collapsing under their own weight. It’s a... REVIEW: The Kargil story The Pakistan Army’s silence on Kargil was finally broken in the form of the recently published book by Dr Shireen Mazari. The publication presents mainly the official GHQ position, a reality... REVIEWS: Of Mansoor Hallaj Marx calls religion “the heart of a heartless world” (Critique of Hegel’s Theory of Law). Subject to remorseless natural laws, mankind gradually understands and uses them to move away from its... REVIEWS: A study in contrasts Prolific writer Bano Qudsia’s latest novel Hasil Ghaat is dedicated to those Pakistanis who have left their country to explore greener pastures abroad. Centred on the unfulfilled desires of a man... INBOX: Revenge of the books? This is with reference to Mr Javed Jabbar’s article “Revenge of the books?” (B&A Nov 16). I would first like to express my deepest sypampathies for the loss of part of...

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