July 4, 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 Sizzling in the dark EXCESSIVE energy losses have plagued the power system in Pakistan since the 1960s. The situation in the Wapda system has become particularly distressing. During 1976-77 the losses in the Wapda system touched an all-time high peak of 37.58 per cent of... Excerpts: When they emigrate... AS in India, so abroad: the social structure of overseas Indians is marked by a multiplicity of communities based on regional, linguistic, religious, or in some places, caste lines. Region and religion seem to be more important determinants... Articles: Between East and West THE book group to which I belong tries to read as many books as available in translation by authors outside the mainstream of English writing. So when we decided to read... Articles: Nepali — yet another sister of Urdu “IT was a dilemma for me. Faiz was a progressive or communist poet. And Islamization was in full swing in Pakistan. But, then I realized that Pakistan is politically correct and... Articles: Lost in fantasy YOU have to simply put logic away when you are reading this,” says Shahnaz Aijazuddin as she points towards the eight volumes of Tilism-i-Hoshruba, the great Urdu epic. “Composed in Persian by Abul-Faiz Faizi to entertain the... Poet: The poet painter AND so, one fine day the 19-year-old decided on his life’s vocation: to be a poet and a painter in a single lifetime. Mathematics and physics could roost at their own... Review: On the road to Baghdad “THIS is just a scene from hell There are bodies burning around me, there are bits of bodies on the ground. This is a really bad own goal by the Americans,”... Review: Of power THIS well-researched and well-written book of almost 600 pages compares Nazi Germany with Soviet Russia for, presumably, one reason: they were both great powers, under dictatorial regimes, born of defeats in... Review: Be your own boss THE international edition of Amer Quereshi’s latest book, The A to Z of Small Business, was chosen as the ‘Book of the Month’ in Australia. It contains practical ideas and tools... Review: Misanthropy and the city IN Soft City, his classic account of London life, Jonathan Raban concluded that London and his book were “opposed forms: to force the city’s spread, contingency and aimless motion into the... Review: Chronicling gloom FIGURES, more dismal figures, names of perpetrators and their victims, children murdered, sexually molested, women burnt, evictions, scams and schemes, water woes, education ills with six million Pakistani children (of school-going... Review: The fate of science THE production and consumption of scientific knowledge dominates the operation of our modern societies. The penetration of scientism into political and civil society, however, poses a dilemma for the Muslim states... Review: With a finger in every pie THIS lively and sometimes profound book is all about the Tatas, the industrial tycoons of India, whose bouillabaisse of disparate concerns and industries range from steel, hotels to aviation. Chapter wise,... Review: Politics in Pakistan IT is said that in a note jotted to himself in July 1947, under the heading, “Danger of parliamentary form of government”, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah expressed the view that while...

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