January 25, 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 How corruption hits the poor GIVEN that corruption is rampant in the public sector, an important question that arises relates to the impact of such corruption and whom it affects the most. While the negative impact of corruption is an oft-discussed... Excerpts: That is also life ONE arrives and departs in Sindh invariably in the middle of a smoke screen of dust. Only the rich, or rather the head of the community, have havelis where they hold their court in the otaak. Sayyids and Pirs, the religious... Articles: Judgement on Umrao MEHDI Ali Siddiqi, who died in New York on January 11, aged 97, was well known for his famous judgment on Saadat Hasan Manto. After fining Manto over obscene language in... Articles: The myth of Kabul Jan THE Storyteller’s Daughter (Penguin) by Saira Shah combines fearless reportage exposing the Taliban with a personal search for her homeland of which she had been told stories by her father, aunt... Articles: Reading in America TIME is money in the West. It is too precious to be frittered away. During my visits to the US, I have noticed that people are avid readers of books. They read while waiting for the trains in the subways, or in the doctor’s waiting room or while travelling in planes.... Articles: Reading for keeps READING used to be Ali Syedain’s favourite past-time until he started suspecting that it was driven by escapism. “I read more selectively now,” he admits. A high-paced career hasn’t deterred him.... Articles: Haunted by the past: Sindhi books of 2003 DISAPPOINTED with their present and uncertain about their future, the Sindhis seem to be obsessed with their past. That is evident by the publication of a number of historical books every... Articles: You can’t see the books for the trees OF making many books there is no end,’ moaned the writer of Ecclesiastes a good two and a half thousand years ago, so how he would have felt about the estimated 100,000-plus new titles published last year in the UK alone is not difficult to guess. Most contemporary writers share this sense of dismay... Author: Writing for women “I HAVE decided to dedicate my writing to women,” says Tahira Naqvi very determinedly. The author of Atar of Roses and Other Stories from Pakistan and Dying in a Strange Country,... Review: Is it really that good? HAD this book been published in the sixties or the seventies, when we were still in the bygone era of black and white, right wing and left wing, when you were... Review: The making of a novelist IT is a commonplace of literary criticism that no writer is equal to his book. In fact according to Faulkner, a writer’s life is quite irrelevant to his work. Not so... Review: The unorganized workers A WESTERN economist trying to explain why the monopolies’ profits do not fall, as they should, says that these monopolies keep the rates of their profits high by taking a... Review: Clashes of the egotistical kind BIPAN Chandra, a historian of eminence, appears to have had a preconceived plan of performing a balancing act when he set about writing this book. For when he indicts Indira Gandhi... Review: Daily guide to living less seriously DIARIES rarely make interesting presents, but you might want to try this one. Its novelty lies in the fact that it tells you what you are going to do every day... Children''s Book Review: The fragrance of roses I HAVE always liked improving tales. Madonna’s kabbala teacher suggested she share her spiritual wisdom in books for children and all proceeds will go to a children’s charity. The English... Review: Unbelievable but involving I AM not quite sure as to what prompted me into reading Kiran Azam’s Dreams Can Come True. The lean, 82-page novel is quite ordinary looking on the outside, the... Review: Poems with a message RESPECTING our elders, apologizing for a mistake, showing kindness to others and thanking God for his blessing are a part of the value system that we try to inculcate in our... Review: Charming tales SOMEWHERE Over the Rainbow and Other Stories and May the Rain Fall Softly and Other Stories are two books with some delightful stories for children, written by Mariam Salam....

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