August 29, 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 Of power, justice and rationalism The leadership of his own country never had much use for Eqbal. During Pakistan’s first martial law government there was a warrant of arrest on him, while in the second he was put on a death sentence.... EXCERPTS: When man fights man All wars are ugly, civil wars probably the worst of them — father against son, brother against brother, neighbour against neighbour, friend against friend, town against town.... ARTICLES: Is Helen Fielding a racist? In Helen Fielding’s comic novel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, there’s a scene early on where heroine Bridget is explaining to her boyfriend, the scrumptuous Mark Darcy, her belief that New Age self help books are the new religion.... ARTICLES: Reading behind the bars The Central Jail in Karachi has a well-stocked library with some 5,000 books. I was provided this information by the young jail librarian who has held this post for the past... ARTICLES: Poetry award for Pinter Harold Pinter’s verses against the invasion of Iraq are set to receive the Wilfred Owen award for poetry. The award that is named after the man acknowledged as the most influential... AUTHOR: Maneesha Tikekar: Writing about Pakistan There is no denying the fact that India and Pakistan share an obsessive relationship. You just have to witness the emotions aroused when a one day cricket match is being played... REVIEWS: The wisdom of being slow Who would have thought that progress would lead to lack of sleep? That a country like Japan would be worrying about “karoshi; death from overwork”? That Matshushita Electric Works would be... REVIEWS: Greed, glory and a lost treasure The best investigative journalism can be a long, mazy hunt after truth, sometimes winding down blind alleys, sometimes stalling in confusion — and often ending without any neat sensation of a... REVIEWS: The sin of love When Nadeem Aslam addresses eager audiences, he speaks of his literary characters, hauntingly, his loose black curls mopping a broad forehead, the 37-year-old Pakistani-born novelist is unable to grapple with the... REVIEWS: Creativity at its best V.S. Naipaul once observed, “The best creative work of the 20th century has gone into filmmaking.” Even if one were an ardent literature devotee, it would take extremely cogent persuasion to... REVIEWS: The return As more people slip behind lines formed outside embassies to move on beyond the frontiers, there is a growing number trickling into a pool of people wanting to move back to... REVIEWS: Consume less, reduce waste Calling into question the sustainability of consumer society’s hyper growth rates is fashionable in the best circles. It is certainly important to remind ourselves, as this report does, that growth is... REVIEWS: Discussing literature Like several other literary genres including the short story and the novel, literary criticism in Urdu in its present form has also been adopted from the West. But it has flourished... REVIEWS: Mental illness in Pakistan Rooh ke zakhm is a book on psychiatry by Dr Amin A. Gadit based on his personal experiences as well as the objective observations on mental illness and the facilities available... REVIEWS: A guru’s guru Travel accounts often make for interesting reading and the tradition is pretty old and established in literatures of most languages.... IN BRIEF Akash Ansari, the living legend of Sindhi poetry, has finally struck again. Adhoora Adhoora is his second collection of poems that has come nearly two decades after his first collection Keein Rahan Jalawatan....

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