February 15, 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 Fearless nuclear gambling In early 2002, with a million troops mobilized and leaders in both India and Pakistan threatening nuclear war, world opinion responded fearfully, seeing a fierce and possibly suicidal struggle up ahead.... EXCERPTS: Time to heal wounds We got down to work. Bakerywala and I started visiting several people individually in Mahim. Initially we listened to their views about events that took place in the city from December 1992 to March 1993 and their aftermath.... ARTICLE: Punjabi literature in 2003: Winds of change While surveying Punjabi publications of the year 2003, it is hard to ignore a noticeable positive change in the prevailing adverse environment for Punjabi language in Pakistan. Since Punjabi language has... ARTICLE: Urdu in India Others can derive inspiration from Ramendra Jakhu Sahil’s determination to learn Urdu. His enthusiasm for learning the language is almost infectious. He started learning the Persian script at the IAS Academy... Reading into uneasy times For Shamil, who writes under the pen name of as Imam Shamil, “Reading is not a delightful activity; it gives me pain. That is why I do not read when I... AUTHOR: Asif Farrukhi: Carving a niche Having bagged the Prime Minister’s award for literature (1995) for his translation of Latin American short stories titled Maut aur Qutub-Numa, Asif Aslam Farrukhi attributes his interest in reading and writing... AUTHOR: Susanna Moore: Write the good fight Susanna Moore came out of the rain into a cafe at the top of the Janiculum hill, in Rome. It was late afternoon, already dark. She was dressed to be ready... REVIEWS: The marketing of services Divided into three parts and ten chapters, this book focuses on the marketing and management of services, a branch, which is now gaining widespread emphasis in the fields of marketing and... REVIEWS: Why this contempt? Reconciliation is in the air and it is infectious. India and Pakistan decide to talk, the US wants to engage the UN and this scribe comes to the unenviable yet inevitable... REVIEWS: Enough is enough “If women use umbrellas, the rains will fail us! If women wear slippers, the rains will fail us!...” ... REVIEWS: Blundering into the wrong war Winning Modern Wars appears to be Gen Clark’s first salvo in his campaign for the American presidency. It is nevertheless a perceptive and informed analysis of the reasons or, more accurately,... REVIEWS: Kashmir dispute: finding a solution Sumantra Bose is a descendant of the legendary Indian leader Subhas Chandra Bose, who joined the Japanese during the Second World War in a romantic but unsuccessful bid to oust the... REVIEWS: Jung: fascinating but frustrating Biographies have a pattern. First, a great man or woman lives, dies and is remembered in sorrowful hagiography. Then comes secondary revision and a more measured assessment is written, including our... IN BRIEF What sort of a place will the world we live in be ten years down the road? Given the recent events, it’s easy to be pessimistic....

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