September 19, 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 Dangerous route IN the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history. It’s somehow as if history has become too subversive. The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it’s best to forget it and start anew. But as everyone is discovering, you... EXCERPTS: Learning to live again FOR many people in the West, Afghanistan has been whittled down to a series of cliches. A dusty plain inhabited by bearded militiamen, crowds of women, clad head to toe in faded blue burkhas, being clung to by children with wide, frightened eyes. People quickly forget that the nations’ capital Kabul... ARTICLE: Lankan language lessons ON the eve of the golden jubilee of the independence of Sri Lanka, President Chandrika Kumaratunga chose to deliver the independence day speech in English. Her choice of language had far... AUTHOR: The feminine voice “I HAVE been a very sensitive person right from my childhood. I always looked up to women in high positions and would try to identify myself with them. The purpose was... AUTHOR: Unwriterly writer WHEN novelist Rachel Seiffert sits down at teatime to read what she’s written that day, the adjectives are the first for the chop. Adverbs are hacked back next: “I don’t like... AUTHOR: Man of the masses IN 1966, Prof Dr Shafiq Jullundhri, a former head of the mass communication department of Punjab University and also then the secretary of the ‘Bazm-i-Adab’, arranged a meeting of students with... REVIEW: Journey down memory lane US Army Colonel Martin Stanton’s account of his adventures as a military adviser to the Saudi National Guard and hostage during the Gulf War comes at a time when Iraq, in... REVIEW: How the other half lives THIS book is a collection of 51 of Mr Mohsin Jafri’s numerous articles written on the plight of women in the country. While it would have been good to give the... REVIEW: In the spotlight “THE young people who were growing up and watching films in the 1940s were looking for stories and heroes who would appeal to them. While they would read novels, films were... REVIEW: Prevention is better than cure HANIYA Aslam has written a well-researched paper to inform the readers how they are being deprived of their right to social security and how important it is for them to break... REVIEW: How do you like your stake? BRAM Stoker, a minor but distinguished Victorian novelist, took six years to write Dracula. Published in 1897, few novels have gripped the reader so irresistibly. It unfolds in a late Victorian... REVIEW: Homing in on stories IN the opening story of his new collection, Apna Ghar, Masood Ashar refers to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Latin American maestro, which makes him hark back to his early days, and... From the ancient to the modern REVIEWING books by authors as varied and revered as Mahakavi Kalidasa and Khushwant Singh and as contemporary and unique storytellers as Selina Hossain and Syed Asad Ali is no cakewalk. Each... In brief IT was Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), third president of the United States (1801-1809) and author of the Declaration of Independence:, who said “Information is the currency of democracy”. It infers that suppressing information or distorting it is a clear violation of the right of the citizen in a democratic society. But most of the world media have been doing just that by supporting and spreading the lies behind... REVIEW: Sex education for children JINSI Taleem Aur Bachche is a collection of articles, some translated from English and others originally written in Urdu, wherein the authors have advocated that sex education is a continuous process... REVIEW: The seamy side THE book under review is a well-produced, lucidly written history of the rulers of Oudh. The author has chosen to call them Nawabs even though from the time of Ghaziuddin Haider...

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