November 7, 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 final countdown On December 15, Indian paratroopers landed at Jamalpur, some thirty miles north of Dhaka. The GOC of the leading Indian division, Major-General Nagra, was physically in Narayanganj and his staff was in touch with Niazi discussing the modalities of surrender.... EXCERPTS: Contradictions of history Articulating their fear and dread, many Americans felt that the attacks of 9/11 had “changed the world for ever”. In large measure, this was true. Most Americans had never known what... ARTICLE: Reluctant Nobel winner Austria’s Elfriede Jelinek has become the reluctant winner of the Nobel prize for literature. The 57-year-old author said she felt “more desperation than happiness” on winning the prize and that it... AUTHORS: Ajeet Kaur: In her element She is a whirlwind. Everywhere and nowhere, she is a woman most difficult to pin down for a conversation. She is on the go throughout. At any given moment she is... AUTHORS: France’s neocons PARIS: The Academie Francaise, the prestigious institution that was founded in 1634 and continues to this day to serve as the arbiter as how French should be spoken and written, has... REVIEWS: Debating intellectual property rights WTO... TRIPS... terms and topics that most of us tend to relegate to the back burners of our minds. What exactly is the WTO? How are WTO and TRIPS interlinked? Do... REVIEWS: Up the garden path Frances Hodgson Burnett once described herself as a “flower drunk”. In one of her gardens — in Bermuda — there were said to be more than 700 varieties of rose. In... REVIEWS: Lost loves, lost lives Sehba Sarwar’s first novel, titled Black Wings, is about a mother and daughter, Laila and Yasmeen. When Laila goes to visit her daughter, a 36-year-old divorcee Pakistani immigrant living in Houston... REVIEWS: Unity and diversity These are the first two of the three volumes on the history, culture, flora and fauna, and tourism of the Jammu and Kashmir region by Pervez Dewan. They contain not just... REVIEWS: Pakistani paradox Ziring’s Pakistan: At the Crosscurrent of History is a breath of fresh air at a time when there is an endless flow of media reports and books in the US and... REVIEWS: Concoction of experiences The round shouldered young man in a tight polycotton shirt standing outside a New Delhi office tower is an apt and poignant description of a young, male job seeker anywhere in... REVIEWS: Who won freedom for India? In the author’s own words, the main theme of this book is “the role of the Indian Army impelling the British to concede independence”. In other words this book sets out... REVIEWS: Untold stories The significance of the Kalhora period (1681-1783) in Sindh’s history is that it gave a respite to the people from alien rule (1499-1681) by the Arghuns, the Tarkhans and the Mughal... REVIEWS: The magic of Sufism Sufi poets have played a very important role in the cultural and religious life of the common man in South Asia. Coming from Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan and the Central Asian Republics,... REVIEWS: The revolutionary Hobsbawm calls the 20th century the century of the Russian Revolution. This is true in the sense that from 1917 until the end, international politics could not break away from that... IN BRIEF Fairly well-known as a committed short story writer, Ahmad Zainuddin has ventured into a genre, which has now become very popular among the reading public of the subcontinent...

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