March 6, 2005
Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors.
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Women on the peace front
 The general failure of states across our region to reach politically negotiated, peaceful resolutions of the conflicts in their countries, has had one unexpected outcome....
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EXCERPTS: The wedding of Sundri
 THE day that Sundri was to be married came as any other, with the rooster crowing in the semi-darkness of dawn, the calling of doves from the nearby forest, the sudden...
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ARTICLES: Poet of love and pain
 FADWA Tuqan, who lamented, “I fear, my child, that the human in you may be smothered” also saw herself as a link in the chain of the history of the Palestinian...
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ARTICLES: Men writing for women
 IN an article on Ismat Chughtai, Saadat Hasan Manto quoted Patras Bukhari who once wrote about her,...
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ARTICLES: To be or not to be: Women in literature
 EMILY Bronte’s magnum opus Wuthering Heights is considered to be the epitome of romantic fiction. While flipping through the novel we forget that it is penned by a woman. We do...
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REVIEWS: Moving hand in hand
 FROM the parting advice given to a daughter at the time of bidai “we are sending your doli (bridal palanquin) today, let only your arthi (corpse) come out of the house”...
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REVIEWS: Palestine’s voice
 NO one was more qualified to pen thoughts on Palestinian calvery than Edward Said, a Palestinian born in Jerusalem. A scholar whose book Orientalism stunned the western intellectual world, Said made...
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REVIEWS: Marie, Marie, quite contrary
 TO Einstein, she was “as cold as a herring”; much of the French scientific establishment detested her; and she was reviled for her “wanton” antics....
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REVIEWS: With clay feet
 AT this arty, standing-room-only do in Mumbai, with guests also partying in the street, I swapped ideas with a Lawrence watcher of sorts. Mainly informed, like so many, by the two...
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REVIEWS: Vignettes from Baghdad
 IT is reassuring that in this age of the crushing load of electronic-media in our lives, no newsreel or documentary can come so close to real life the way an old...
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REVIEWS: Challenging times, indeed
 COMPARED to her counterparts around the globe, the woman in our part of the world lags behind in ways more than one. While issues like domestic violence, gender discrimination and workplace...
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In brief
THIS novel by Ishtiaq Ansari is based on anthropological research on the non-Aryan tribe Oadh, a first ever experiment in Sindhi literature. It discusses at length the origin...
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In brief
THE Crow Chronicles is an allegory, a novel containing political satire presenting the bitter realities of corrupt politics coated with wit and humour....
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‘Anie Apa’ honoured
 QURRATULAIN Hyder, the renowned Urdu novelist and short story writer, was in the news recently. She was honoured at a function held at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, in collaboration with...
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