May 9, 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 War games or war gains THE term ‘economy of violence’ focuses on a self-perpetuating system, in which violence itself emerges as a marketable good. From an economic point of view the immense number of combat... EXCERPTS: Mobile newspaper IN my childhood I had seen just such a ‘living gazette’ very closely. His name was Enayet. He was a clerk in the courts and was popularly known as Enayet Daftary. Every morning before going to the courts... EXCERPTS: Curing with love SHE came back to McLeod Road with a new zeal and reorganized the work. Proper registration, histories and examinations were initiated and simple laboratory tests were started.... ARTICLE: Trapped in dilemmas He started writing poetry around 1980 and his first and only collection, Aakhri Din se Pehle, was published in 1997. He also writes essays and literary reviews and is the recipient.... ARTICLE: The writer’s editor FOUR o’clock on a Saturday afternoon, a time when even the most driven Americans are at home. Not Robert Silvers. Aged 74, he is at his place in the offices of... ARTICLE: Thrill of the printed word ZIA AKBAR describes himself as a reading addict. “I’ll read almost anything. I’ll put it this way: the power of the printed word is very strong for me,” he writes in an email interview. “The thrill of reading... AUTHOR: Poet to his fingertips GULZAR wears many intellectual hats. He is a film director, known for making sensitive movies, a short story writer, and a lyricist who has penned many a soul-stirring song for Indian... REVIEW: All the poverty talk YET another glossy publication of yet another symposium/conference on poverty at yet another five star hotel. A spacious hall, glittering chandeliers, sumptuous six course meals post the event, while during the... REVIEW: A woman’s price MUNSHI Premchand’s novel, Bazaar-e-Husn, first published in 1917, remains one of the great classics of Urdu literature and it is good to see that Oxford University Press has now brought out a fluid English translation — Courtesan’s Quarter by Amina Azfar... REVIEW: The role of religion SOCIOLOGY of Religion in India is an anthology published by the Indian Sociological Society (ISS) to commemorate the golden jubilee of its biannual journal Sociological Bulletin, first launched in March 1952.... In brief TOMORROW’S God by Neale Donald Walsch, author of the Conversation with God series, deals with how human understanding of God makes a difference in our choices and behaviour... REVIEW: In search of Rumi’s garden SAIRA Shah first visited Afghanistan with the mujahideen when she was twenty-one and working in Peshawar as a freelance journalist covering the guerrilla war against the Soviet occupation. Born... REVIEW: Hitler & Churchill, again & again... ANDREW Roberts is the latest historian to add his drop to the ever-widening wave of biographies of Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill. Roberts first made his name with Eminent Churchillians, biographical... Review: Many dimensions of patricide BEATRICE Cenci was the true-crime heroine of a notorious Renaissance horror story. In 1598, she combined with her brother and stepmother to murder her viciously abusive father, Francesco. From the age... REVIEW: Russell re-lived BERTRAND Russell’s popularity is undoubtedly global and remains unsurpassed even after the advent of the 21st century. Therefore, Qazi Javed’s translations of Russell’s Autobiography and Skeptical Essays come in handy not... REVIEW: Work of a master critic PROF MUMTAZ HUSSAIN was among those distinguished Urdu critics who were known for their scientific approach and their Marxist evaluation of literary works. Spread over a period of more than half...

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