June 27, 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 For paradise in the next world The martyrdom of 30,000 Pakistanis in Afghanistan and Kashmir, 2,000 sectarian killings and the enthusiastic enrolment of 200,000 young men in various jihadi and sectarian organizations in the last two decades is the direct result of the jihadi culture prevailing in the country.... EXCERPTS: With a roof above their head It has been widely documented that housing in katchi abadis develops in an incremental way. One of the major determinants of the pace and level of development of houses is the degree of recognition of the settlement, which in its turn is reflected by items... ARTICLE: Moroccan wins literary award A novel based on facts about an underground prison in the deserts of Morocco has won the International Impac Dublin Literary Award 2004. Written by Tahar Ben Jalloun, the novel titled... ARTICLE: A Steinbeck collage on Iraq Stichomancy is one of the oldest forms of divination whereby a random passage of a randomly selected book is interpreted as the answer to one’s questions. To me it is a... ARTICLE: Intense reading Amna says reading is equivalent to eating and drinking in her family. Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and other such writers were the ones she grew up on. Georgette Heyer’s novels saw... AUTHORS: Zamir Niazi Tribute to my mentor My early association with Mr Zamir Niazi, the eldest brother of my mother who was his only sister, began in my childhood. He would frequently visit Mumbai to meet us. I... AUTHORS: Anton P. Chekhov A hundred years on “Slavyanski Bazaar”, a hotel, not a bazar, still stands in Moscow’s centre. People still stay there; there is still dancing with dinner in its restaurant downstairs. This is the hotel in... REVIEWS: Seizing lands to become a hero People coming from Europe settle in Palestine, occupy other people’s lands, and establish a “self-defence force”. When the native resists, he becomes a “terrorist”. This in brief is the theme of... REVIEWS: The Pir who sought to be king! In the last hundred years or so, two prominent personalities of Sindh ended their halcyonic lives on the gallows 38 years apart from each other. Both had dreams of becoming king,... REVIEWS: Empowering women for democracy At a time when the so-called ‘free-world’ is spreading democracy around the globe, at gunpoint no less, it is useful to look at the great disparities between the rich and the... REVIEWS: Ill-starred stars When you hear the name “Kennedy” a multitude of images come to mind including Camelot, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ trend-setting fashion sense, the heart-breaking assassinations of John F. Kennedy and later his... REVIEWS: Islands of hope On October 31, 1984, when Mumbai-born Sushobha Bharve boarded a train from her hometown to Barabanki, along with a friend, not even in her worst nightmare had she witnessed such a... REVIEWS: Megaton megalomaniac Dwight Eisenhower was inclined to brood over the growing power of America’s scientific elite. Yes, technology had given the US undreamt-of power, he would tell henchmen, but its protagonists now held... REVIEWS: Post-modern facts Thus begins one of the 16 really short stories of the book under review, short in form/treatment yet big in impact. Most of the stories are spread over four to five pages and describe events which occur within a span of a couple of hours.... REVIEWS: Collector’s delight WHILE it is always fun going through literary classics, the effort by a Lahore-based publisher to actually reprint in its totality an old edition of the famed Baagh-o-Bahar by Mir Aman has added a new dimension to the experience, making it a collector’s item.... IN BRIEF Autobiographies make interesting reading. They give the reader a sense of being in intimate contact with the mind and heart of an individual. Some readers are fascinated by famous people...

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