March 14, 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 The peace business IT is proposed that representatives of civil society organizations be co-opted in any peace talks. Regional citizens groups, such as the Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy... Excerpts: Murals in the mind WE had met a few times in London pubs, Souza, Raza, Ahmed Parvez, and that most delicate of sculptors, self-effacing, Bakre. None of us had much drinking money, and we were not the type... Articles: Dance on the horizon MANSOORA AHMED was born in 1958 and holds a master’s degree in English literature. She owns and manages Asateer Publishing House in Lahore and is managing editor of the well-reputed literary... Articles: Lost till the last page I READ every night and can’t sleep without reading at least a few pages of something, even if it’s just a book on programming,” says Awais, “It’s been like this ever since I got my first Tell... Articles: Booking the profits from peace: 16th World Book Fair, New Delhi IT was perhaps ironical, as is often the case in an India-Pakistan context, that politician-turned-peace activist from Lahore, Dr Mubashir Hasan, was holding forth at a seminar in Delhi about how... Articles: Is the pen still mightier than the PC? DESPITE the wizardry of the IT revolution, the writer’s first draft remains a treasure. No amount of technology can allay writers’ anxiety about their original versions. The stark horror of the... Author: Creator of Regency romance AT a time when sex, crime, horror and terrorist plots are the stuff which bestsellers are made of, it is a wonder that an author of romance and old world norms... Review: A career in imperialism A POSITIVE aspect of the fall of the Soviet Union has been that it has freed the left from following the moronic lines laid down by the Moscow bureaucracy. Actually,... Review: Meditate your way to happiness THIS paperback of 221 pages is edited by Renuka Singh, who comes from a Sikh family but turned to Buddhism because of “its scientific approach and openness of mind”. Renuka Singh... Review: Land of a thousand beginnings IF India is a country of a thousand cultures, then Russia can easily be described as a country with a thousand beginnings. Geographically the largest country in the world, Russia is... Review: Bacha Khan and his politics THE most controversial figure in Pakistani politics but the most revered personality among the Pakhtoons, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (popularly known as Bacha Khan), has left an indelible mark on the... Review: Liberalism vs fundamentalism PAUL Berman is a prominent exponent of liberalism. In an attempt to present a considered stance of America’s community of liberals on the US war on terror, he ends up extending,... Review: The lady’s not discerning AS I was finishing Margaret Thatcher’s Statecraft, it was announced that our former prime minister would be making no more public speeches because of ill health. I was sad to hear... Review: A lack of balance JOSEPH Stiglitz, the author of The Roaring Nineties, is a professor of economics and finance at Columbia University. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001. As senior vice-president of... Review: Family values WHAT is so fascinating about Bano Qudsia’s Lagan Apni Apni, a full-length play revolving around the idiosyncrasies of certain characters in a family set up, is its subtleness and extraordinary detailed... In brief FOR Rashid Iqbal Khan, writing the novel Alina of Azimabad seems more of a service. Narrating the story of Alina, the daughter of one Caroline Thelma Samuels, an Anglo-Indian Catholic, who...

Contributions Privacy Policy © DAWN Group of Newspapers, 2006