October 24, 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 The dividing line FOLLOWING the ‘Mutiny’ and the shift from Company to Crown Rule, representatives of the Church of England and government alike drew attention to the population of poorer Europeans and Eurasians that increased in tandem with the expanding civil, military, and commercial colonial infrastructure. Existing educational facilities providing... EXCERPTS: Diving for the gem AFTER viewing some of the thousands of magnificent mineral specimens from Afghanistan and Pakistan that are housed in many of today’s fine collections, it is difficult to imagine the humble beginnings of the mineral localities that produced them, especially since many of the specimens from.... ARTICLE: Celebrating reading: National Book Festival, Washington NEARLY 70,000 book lovers — at least one fourth of them children — gathered at the Mall in Washington DC on Saturday, October 9 to participate in the fourth annual... ARTICLE: The lost habit of books SOME of my most prized possessions are the books bought off the pavement from second-hand dealers in Lahore and Rawalpindi. The prices of new books are prohibitive and the mind boggles... AUTHOR: For the love of Lucknow BY his own admission, Khalique Ibrahim Khalique’s memory is no longer as retentive as it used to be. There was a time, he says, when he could recall in great detail... REVIEW: Eat your heart out FOR starters, I must apologize for the hugely tacky headline I have chosen to give to the review of Hanif Kureishi’s new book, My Ear at his Heart. In my defence,... REVIEW: Under the Union Jack IN a dream at the end of his life, Postmaster Ghulam Rasool relives some of his happiest moments. One of them is the time he spent poring over books under the... REVIEW: Snakes and ladders NAYANTARA Sahgal is regarded as one of India’s most important novelists. Born in 1927, this niece of Jawarlahal Nehru was able to view Indian politics from the struggle for independence through... REVIEW: Love, headscarves and suicide “HOW much can we ever know about the love and pain in another’s heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?” Herein lies the heart of Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk’s profound novel Snow.... REVIEW: Gradual disillusionment THERE is no dearth of literature on the inner workings of Bush’s White House during the tumultuous years encompassing 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq. Richard Clarke’s Against all Enemies and... REVIEW: Way ahead of her time MORE than half way through his biography of Natalie Wood, Gavin Lambert tells us that he first met his subject in 1956. They were introduced by Nicholas Ray, who had directed... REVIEW: An Indian through and through WHEN in the aftermath of the armed revolt against the British in 1857, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) launched his crusade for the rehabilitation of his people, he was generally regarded... REVIEW: Much ado about the bard A RECENT BBC poll declared William Shakespeare the “Man of the Millenium.” His plays have been translated into some 180 languages; he is the world’s most produced playwright. No dramatist... REVIEW: Culture talk and the pre-modern core IN his own words, Mahmood Mamdani’s book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim can be described as ‘an interpretive essay that seeks to explain political events, above all 9/11, in the light of... In brief TRANSLATING Allama Iqbal’s verse is no mean feat. While taking up such a job, one has to take into account, among many, two very important factors: Iqbal’s philosophy and his grandiloquence. The job will become that much more arduous if the translator doesn’t quite subscribe to the great verse wielder’s ideas.... REVIEW: Understanding Jewish fundamentalism AT the outset of the twentieth century, nobody would have thought that religion would again play a pivotal role in world’s politics. The age of modernity, with its phenomenal achievements in...

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