December 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 True to his word, after all MASHKEL lies miles behind the ‘back of beyond’ of Balochistan; right on the border with Iran. And when friends Kamil Khan Mumtaz and Uxi Mufti decided quite on the spur of the moment to go to Iran for a couple of... Excerpts: At the cost of the poor THE month of May 1998 has now become a “historic chapter” of the victory of the warmongers in the history of the subcontinent. During those days the rulers of India and Pakistan forgot that they were ruling over the poorest of the world. In their countries... Articles: Saving Frankenstein THE Bodleian Library has been given £3m by the University of Oxford to save the original manuscript of the Gothic classic Frankenstein as well as other papers of Mary Shelley, its... Articles: Lead me home A HAPPY and smiling future is the birth-right of every child who is born into this world. But not all societies can ensure this privilege. Definitely, not ours. And... Articles: A new convert A BOOK, to Saadia Ikram essentially “opens up a fascinating world” and as compared to other forms of information she finds it to be “something that is personally yours because one can hold it and re-read passages one likes”. So, for Ikram... Author: Understanding Al Qaeda A FREELANCE journalist wanting to report from Pakistan in the late ‘90s was a dicey proposition. It made you wonder if he might have been warned against the brewing regional... Review: Why this indifference? AKBAR ZAIDI’S name is well known as a social scientist. He has recently created something of a flutter among social scientists by his monograph The Dismal State of the Social Sciences... Review: The forest of mirrors ROBERT Littell has come up with a masterpiece in his new book, The Company. Mr Littell is well known to lovers of the spy novel. Some of his earlier works include... Review: Veering away from the Quaid’s vision SECTARIAN violence is an endemic feature of life in Karachi. It manifests itself from time to time in targeted killing of people and in attacks on mosques, imambargahs and religious congregations.... Review: Understanding the terrorist’s mind TERROR in the Name of God opens with this quotation that encapsulates the purpose if not the theme of the book. It is hard to contest this penetrating thought specially if you have no problem in denominating terrorism as an evil even if it is in the name of God.... Review: Empowering corporate culture THE book under review is a critique of management theories. Frustrated by the spurt in packaged solutions under fancy labels or popular branded solutions, the two Indian authors go back to... Review: Western purblindness DAVID Hirst, a former Middle East correspondent of the Guardian newspaper, wrote The Gun and the Olive Branch originally in 1977. This was the eve of the historic breakthrough in the... Review: Deliverance GIVE me a place to stand and I will move the world” is a line attributed to Archimedes, but consider how well it applies to Martin Luther King Jr. Forty years ago, the activist minister from Atlanta, Georgia, stood on the steps of the... Review: Liberation of women in Punjab WHAT was the status of women before the British colonialists arrived in the subcontinent? What were the changes that occurred during the British Raj and to what extent are the women... In brief THE pangs of separation and the agony of repeated migrations have mellowed Aijazul Haque Aijaz a great deal and made him a poet of sensitivity. His prolonged association with the armed... Review: The story of courage THE book under review is an Urdu translation of one of the classical novels of Sindhi language, Sanghar, which deals with the Hur armed resistance against British colonialists that led to...

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