January 11, 2004 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors. This page is updated every Sunday. For current issue Click here Creating a new Pakistan BHUTTO was too close to the disaster that engulfed the former Pakistan to understand the significance of the dismemberment. Translating events in personal terms, he was compelled by his blind ambition to read the situation... Excerpts: And then came the change PANDIT Padam Singh’s hard work of four or five months bore some fruit. Twenty or twenty-five courtesans agreed to send their daughters to an orphanage. Three women endowed their property to the orphanage. Five women agreed to marry.... Articles: For those who love books ISLAMABAD, where I live, is often described as culture-less. I don’t know what is exactly meant by that, but one cultural feature that is a source of great pleasure, for me... Articles: Showing promise THIS is becoming a habit: every ten years since 1983 Granta (that on-the-cusp-of-things-magazine) has produced short pieces from twenty British writers under 40 years old whom they consider to be showing... Articles: The final countdown AFZAL Ahmed Syed was born in 1946 in Ghazipur, India. He was educated in Dhaka and then at the American University of Beirut where he completed his MS in Entomology. He... Reading at Siachen THESE lines are from John Keay’s When Men and Mountains Meet: The Explorers of the Western Himalayas, 1820-75 and I have been talked into reproducing them here by Captain Owais Adil who can relate to each and every word for he has been there and done that.... Author: Critic of modern literature THE Russian philosopher turned mystic G.I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949) has three books to his credit. Among them his magnum opus All and Everything or Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson is the most... Review: Those magnificent birdmen ONE hundred years ago at 10.35am on December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers flew for the first time in a machine that was heavier than air and changed our vision of... Review: Look who’s talking ADVOCACY of women’s rights and that too by a police officer naturally comes as a surprise. Till now this was mainly civil society’s responsibility. The healthy approach of involving our police... Review: What makes a person a celebrity? NEWTON today has a celebrity status. He is universally accepted as the genius of science and “a man of highest thought and creative power” (Einstein, Autobiographical Notes). His public appeal was... Review: How to counter terrorism THIS book is based on the papers read out in a seminar on ‘Terrorism and low intensity conflicts in the South Asian region’ organized by the International Relations Department of the... Review: The burden of Bengal THE saga of the Bengali Muslim’s struggle for emancipation and liberation is as old as the history of predatory Western colonialism in South Asia. Bengal was set upon first by the... Review: Living in the past IN his preface to The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India’s Great Emperors, Abraham Eraly writes, “Tradition, however glorious, is what people have to grow out of. The future is not... Review: Lives and souls at stake BACK in July, I read Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and enjoyed it at least as much as other recent literary successes. Therefore I couldn’t believe that there might be a more... In brief ONE of the most valuable traditions established by the British administrators in the hey days of the Raj in India was that of producing gazetteers for every district. Written after intensive research by experts, the gazetteers virtually became a treasure trove of information which was authoritative and insightful.... Review: Reaching out through letters A MAN is known by the letters he writes. The letters may have been written to his close relatives, friends and associates. Or, their contents might be quite impersonal. But...

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