January 16, 2005 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors. This page is updated every Sunday. Select date to view archives of Books & Authors. Year: Year 2005   Month: Month   Day: Day Creating a world of sin? IT could be said that even a quarter of a century, is not enough to determine the true place of a writer. However, in the literary world the short story is by itself a young and limited genre and the age of the modern Urdu short story is even less.... EXCERPTS: What the future holds IT is a foregone conclusion that the Americans are there to stay. To ensure their continued presence they have picked on Hamid Karzai as the man who will safeguard their national interests. He is probably the man the Americans will protect against every possible threat.... EXCERPTS: Removing barriers INDUSTRIAL development is usually a process of discovery, making it difficult to predict what a country or region will be good at producing. This underscores the importance of creating a good investment climate for all firms in the economy and so focusing on improving the “basics”... ARTICLE: My best reads of 2004 AS far as books published in English are concerned I started off with a ‘Penguin Classic’ of Silas Marner by George Eliot first published more than 150 years ago in the... ARTICLE: A whiff of fresh air: Pushto books in 2004 THE year 2004 augured well for Pushto literature. While keeping up its tempo in quantity, it has, undoubtedly, improved the quality. Most of the books appeared with a beautiful get-up, many... ARTICLE: Lost and found IT’S every literary enthusiast’s dream to stumble across a lost work by an author whose work was thought to be complete, and this seems to have been a good season for... ARTICLE: Holding a mirror up to nature ONE must be very circumspect while showering encomiums on Saadat Hasan Manto. One must also try and not begin any profile piece by saying that Saadat Hasan Manto was a genius,... REVIEW: What it means to be poor POVERTY is a much bandied-about issue and yet the problem persists acutely in countries such as ours and in most instances, worsens by the day. The more privileged amongst us can... REVIEW: Before history was recorded THE project under the name of “Peoples History of India” has launched its first set of three monographs devoted to the early past of India. This trilogy presents to the readers:... REVIEW: Degrees of freedom LEE Harris believes passionately in capitalism, a system which reduces all relations to money relations. But he avoids mention of economic matters of the role of production in society. True, he... REVIEW: Sounds familiar? THE background of this outstanding novel is creepily familiar. It is a time of political suspicion and paranoia; the prevailing mood is xenophobic and fearful. Religious fanatics run the government. The... REVIEW: Good journalist, flawed person NORMALLY I am skeptical of books written by journalists, especially those covering world affairs. Most take their limited anecdotal knowledge and try to draw universal conclusions. But this book by the... REVIEW: The origin of man ARCHAEOLOGICAL literature published during the post-Independence period by Pakistani authors has mostly been related to arts and architecture. Motivated explicitly by the Islamic identity of the author, or in pursuance of... REVIEW: The gentleman’s sport THIS is far more than just a cricket book. It is an inspired approach to colonial and post-colonial Indian history, as seen in its relationship with what is now, unarguably, the... REVIEW: America in the dock BEFORE analyzing the book under review, Iraq Mein Amrika ke Jangi Jara’im, by former US attorney general, Ramsey Clark, let us have a brief look at some American war crimes... In brief AS the name suggests, the book traces the construction of the Siraiki identity, from the dissolution of the Bahawalpur State in 1947 to the present day. It appears that the nationalist sentiment was added to the movement as late as the early 1980s when Haji Saifullah, later of General Ziaul Haq’s non-party based Majlis-i-Shoora fame, demanded the establishment of a Siraiki province. Haji Saifullah at the time was an MPA in the then defunct Punjab assembly....

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