July 25, 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 Dilemma that haunts EXCESSIVE pontification and advice have confused everyone about what to do. What not to do may be of greater significance. The fact that 50 years-plus have failed to remove... Excerpts: Engulfed in a storm BUT I knew that it was more than Amman’s presence that was making me feel changed. The gaps in my own life had become more stark since the World Trade Centre explosions. I couldn’t seem to watch television any... Articles: Scholarship should move on IF somebody wants to read the history of Punjab and inquires about a comprehensive book on it, he is immediately advised to read S.M. Latifs History of the Punjab: From the... Articles: Reading on the train AFTER reading and re-reading all the classics such as Shakespeare and Jane Austen I am currently in the mood for enjoying contemporary female fiction purely for pleasure... Articles: Pablo Neruda’s centenary FANS in Chile celebrated the birthday of one of the greatest writers of all time, Pablo Neruda. Neruda who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1971 would have turned 100... Articles: When Clinton came to London IT was interesting (and amusing) to witness Bill Clinton, the one-time world’s most powerful man, the peace negotiator, the 42nd president of the United States of America treated to a red-carpet... Articles: Women writers: are they different? THE other day someone gave me a book of Urdu short stories to read. The author was a personable young woman (the back cover carried her photograph). Since three or four... Author: Making the connection SOME ten years ago, when Kathy Keirle came to Pakistan someone wise said to her, “When you first come here you find that everything is different. But then you see... Review: Keeping the spirit of revolt alive WOMEN Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean features the fierce but impressive writings of eighteen female writer-activists. Each writer has addressed issues of colonization, globalization, dislocation and discrimination... Review: This sporting strife MEMORIES from more than 30 years ago come flooding back: Lord’s, the home of English cricket, under siege with barbed wire around the pitch and constant security. Anti-apartheid protesters preparing to... Review: Literary melting pot SOME of the most vibrant English language writing today is coming from writers belonging to migrant communities in the West. They have enriched literature of the land in which they live... Review: Economic alienation PAKISTAN with its two wings separated from each other by more than a thousand mile long enemy territory was born with a fatal structural flaw which made its integrity vulnerable right... Review: Setting universal norms FOR analysts and commentators, particularly those writing on politics, conflict and the military, the SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) Yearbook should be the most valuable publication on their bookshelves. This... In brief JAMES Patterson has finally released The Lake House, his long-awaited sequel to his best-selling and most successful novel When the Wind Blows. A story revolving around children genetically engineered... Review: Those were the days MORE than 600 years after he undertook man’s inevitable journey to eternity, Khawaja Mohammad Shamsuddin, known to us all today as Hafiz Sheerazi, remains one of the undisputed literary icons of all times.... Review: Tale of chaos and change THE Saga of Kamroop, penned by renowned Assamese novelist, short story writer and scholar, Dr Indira Goswami, is a tragedy revolving around the pre-partition feudal family of Kamroop, Assam, known as...

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