May 30, 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 Where are the PhDs? IN the first 48 years Pakistani universities produced very few PhDs. In the last 50 years several hundred thousand students have graduated in various disciplines. However the output of.... Excerpts: Decision-maker in the family THE actual decision about how many children to have is, on the whole, taken jointly by the couple themselves in 38 per cent of the cases, and by the husband alone in 30 per cent cases. Here again, generational differences are considerable... Articles: Starring Hemingway A MOVIE on the life of legendary author Ernest Hemingway is getting support from his sole surviving son. This is the first time in cinematic history that a movie is... Articles: Novel ways “THAT’S Thrushcross Grange,” explained my host, Brenda Taylor, as I stared out of the car window at the impressive hall at the foot of the Pennine Way. She parked in the... Articles: Inseparable relationship AS every medical doctor knows, the relationship between themselves and books is inseparable. In fact, the vast array of books a medical student has to digest over five years of his studies can seem overwhelming to an average reader.... Author: Writing nothing but the truth IN 1983 a petition was signed by journalists and writers protesting against the martial law government of Ziaul Haq and calling for the immediate restoration of democracy in the country. Masood... Review: Confronting the past KAREN Armstrong has written three autobiographies. The latest one, The Spiral Staircase, should be read in conjunction with the first one, Through the Narrow Gate, which was published in 1981. In... Review: No space on the shelf ACCORDING to the Encyclopaedia Britannica the word museum is derived from a Greek word meaning ‘Temple of Muses’ — the muses being nine goddesses of the Greek and Roman mythology who... Review: The Sufi path LIKE a leech, life’s disappointments are able to suck the blood out of existence, leaving the spirit shrivelled and disfigured. While Sufi sayings can balm the mutilated soul; constituting a retort... Review: Look what happens when you drop a baby IN December 1626, the Swedish king learned of the delivery of a healthy male heir. In the previous six years, all three of Gustaf Adolf’s children had been buried, deepening the... Review: Decadent splendour “PROVIDENCE created the maharajas just to offer mankind a spectacle, a dazzling vision of jewels and marble palaces,” quipped Rudyard Kipling. These princes were notorious for their extravagances and eccentricities. As... Review: Lost glory of the Indus THE 19th century soldier-explorer, Major General M.R. Haig, in his memoir of the Indus delta country tour — downstream of the present day Kotri Barrage — has given a detailed description... Review: How India views its ties with Pakistan VETERAN Indian diplomat J.N. Dixit’s book India and Regional Developments provides a good insight into current Indian thinking about Pakistan-related issues. Dixit served as the Indian Foreign Secretary and also... Review: Labour of love ONE of the lasting regrets in my life is that I did not formally study philology as I am forever fascinated with the shape and sound of words, as well as... In brief CORRIDOR is a graphic novel by Sarnath Banerjee, in the comic book style. With only 112 pages, it can be read in one sitting and is an easy read. But even for its small size, it has a lot to say. Though it starts out slow, it succeeds in drawing us in and holding our attention till the very end. The story isn’t a story as... Review: Interesting lives THE use of cliche is not something that gets immediate approval from the readers, but when nothing conveys the sense better in a precise manner, one has to shut one’s ...

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