March 7, 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 Victimized but fighting back A Few years ago I met a woman professor at a university faculty party in the eastern United States. In the course of our conversation, she learned that I had just returned from Pakistan, where Benazir... Excerpts: Journey to self-realization IN a festering world of devastating global and regional uncertainties just after the First World War and before the Second War, Zubeida Agha led a lonely secluded life. She chose a career for herself... Excerpts: She doesn’t eat salt... THE day the news became public that I was to read a paper on Qurratulain Hyder and that too with her sitting before me in the audience, indeed, life seemed a bit more difficult. Various people under... Articles: The feminist press WITH the above statement as the starting point, if we look at how prior to the feminist presses women’s writing was suppressed and that publishing was an exclusively male industry, we... Articles: The female phenomenon FROM Bapsi Sidhwa to Qaisra Shahraz, most authors who have emerged on the scene of English novel writing in Pakistan, happen to be women. And all of them have, in their... Articles: Literary purdah, is it? THE literary world is agog. Joanna Trollope has refused to do any press for her new novel, Brother and Sister. She wants the writing to speak for itself. Trollope has always been tireless on the publicity front... Author: Who was she? SHE is the writer of one of the most interesting new books that have come my way. Almost hot off the press. A book which makes you interested in the person.... Review: Triply oppressed NO words could better sum up, than this verse, the triple plight — grinding poverty (and extreme exploitation at the work place), caste-specific atrocities (ban on water access and gang-rape by upper-caste men... Review: In two time zones IN revolutionary Iran, the guardians of morality ensured that most free-thinking intellectuals become “victims of the arbitrary nature of a totalitarian regime that constantly intruded into the most private corners of... Review: Near invisible actors WHAT do we know of the women suicide bomber? Leila Khaled who successfully hijacked a TWA flight in 1969 instantly became the glamour girl of international terrorism. Dhanu who assassinated the... Review: ...so shall you reap WHEN a suicide bomber destroyed the barracks of the US Marines stationed in Beirut in 1983, one of the survivors of the attack said that the bomber had been smiling seconds... Review: Once a fishing village and now... ONCE upon a time, in the days of the Raj, a small fishing village by the sea began to transform into a city of sorts. The locals called it ‘Kurrachee’ most... Review: Maritime strategy SPREAD over 279 pages and comprising five chapters, Dr Anil Kumar Singh’s book tries to present a view of India’s security concerns in the Indian Ocean region. Unfortunately, the author does... Review: No ifs, no butts ALLEN CARR, probably the most famous anti-smoking guru of our times, has a problem. He really wants to be loved for the way he has helped many thousands of people stub... Review: The search continues IN his quest of Iqbal, Muhammad Ali Siddiqui has focused on the religious and political dimensions of the poet’s works rather than his poetry. Iqbal would not have been a poet... In brief THE collection of Sarwat Zehra’s verses Jalti Hawa ka Geet is yet another addition to the score of poetry books being offered to Urdu readers. It can be said with some certainty that there is no stagnation in Urdu poetry and a good part of...

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