December 12, 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 Terrorist in the temple It was a week after Operation Bluestar and the Golden Temple still smelled faintly of death. The bodies that had been laid out in rows in white marble corridors had been removed but the temple had the atmosphere of a mortuary.... EXCERPTS: Building a new Afghanistan Karzai was a moderate, progressive Kandahari Pakhtoon, who had joined the mujahideen against the Soviet occupation and had briefly served as deputy foreign minister in the Rabbani government.... ARTICLES: By Andrew Motion Everybody who is interested in Keats knows that his poetry sold very badly in his lifetime, probably no more than a few hundred copies. What is less well known is that... AUTHOR: Selina Hossain: Venting the pain and trauma Some writers are bigger and better than their official biographies. Selina Hossain is one of them. You pick up any anthology of short fiction from Bangladesh and the end-notes would invariably... REVIEWS: Impact of language on education Language and Education is a compilation of selected documents from 1780-2003 by Tariq Rahman. Being a linguist, Dr Rahman has always been interested in uncovering the socio-political aspects of language with... REVIEWS: Real life In this century we risk information overload. The freedom that knowledge brings is tempered by the oppression of too much stuff: too many burbling television channels, chirruping text alerts and overweight... REVIEWS: What makes Pakistan tick? Political writers have often felt the need to probe into ‘what makes Pakistan tick’. Prakash Chander is a well known Indian socio-political scholar who belongs to this genre. In Pakistan: Past... REVIEWS: But who was behind Osama? The founder of the bin Laden clan was a Yemeni migrant, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, who started life as a bricklayer in the royal palaces and founded a construction company... REVIEWS: The rise, fall and rise of Bill Gates One of the most fascinating legal as well as economic battles of the past few years was the massive antitrust lawsuit that the US Justice Department pursued against Microsoft. Even in... REVIEWS: Misuse of orientalism The book From Babel to Dragomans by the orientalist Bernard Lewis is a collection of articles he wrote over the last forty years. Lewis is known to be influenced heavily by... REVIEWS: Marginalization of the minorities Radhika Desai teaches politics at University of Victoria, Canada and the book amply reflects this erudite scholar’s grasp over her subject. She has very analytically dealt with the contemporary political scene... REVIEWS: Spinning a fine yarn It is said that modern times are a reaction to the seemingly scholarly obscurantism of, chiefly, the first half of the 20th century. As a result, in the recent past one... CHILDREN’S BOOK REVIEWS: A new friendship This is a new friendship, one that will last a lifetime. The habit of reading instilled at a young age will go a long way in seeing the reader develop into... CHILDREN’S BOOK REVIEWS: Strange as usual The Harry Potter series now needs no introduction, even for those readers who are reading the Urdu version. Out of the five books originally written in English, four have so far... CHILDREN’S BOOK REVIEWS: Who put that penguin in my bed? By the end of chapter one, which I read to my son Ted, aged five, we were in danger of reaching separate conclusions about this book, the editor of the Guardian’s... CHILDREN’S BOOK REVIEWS: Clean and green This is the world the little child has opened his or her eyes in. It is where he or she will live for the rest of his or her life so... IN BRIEF Syed Mohammad Abul Khair Kashfi has his own inimitable style of writing. He does not tread the beaten track. Instead he carves a new path and decorates it with refreshing memories of days bygone.... IN BRIEF Charismatic personalities are usually hated and loved in equal measure. Their biographers, more often than not, bloat their strengths and achievements and gloss over their failings little realizing that even an icon, as a human, has feet of clay....

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