January 1, 2006 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors. This page is updated every Sunday. For current issue Click here City beloved This book is a collection of both poetry and prose by well-known writers celebrating the special relationship that they share with Lahore... EXCERPTS: Rainbows on wheels This book is a collection of rare photographs of people, places, festivals and things that record the lifestyle of desert dwellers, mystics, tribals and... ARTICLES: Obituaries 2005 Jan 31: Ivan Noble, BBC journalist, science and technology writer, Feb 10: Arthur Miller, American playwright and Pulitzer prize winning author... ARTICLES: New year felicitations Chris Abbas, an artist and wife of late short story writer, Ghulam Abbas, pens a new year’s wish for her friends... ARTICLES: As winds come whispering Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi is a renowned and respected writer. Prolific and versatile, he has contributed several collections of poetry.... ARTICLES: Autobiographies of the powerful More than 150 years ago, the Scottish historian and essayist, Thomas Carlyle, in his book On Heroes and Hero Worship noted that.... ARTICLES: Best Pakistani literature of 50 years The Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) has published a three-volume anthology in English translation of the best works of Pakistani short story writers and.... AUTHORS: Great universality Romila Thapar, the pre-eminent historian of India, recently visited Pakistan to participate in the Karachi International Book Fair... REVIEWS: Large garden, nasty neighbours ... Some time around the middle of the second century AD, a young rhetorician named Aelius Aristides delivered a lecture. The whole occasion was gloriously cosmopolitan. Aristides himself.... AUTHORS: At long last “I want it all to stop,” says Syed Khalid Sajjad. “The cruelty, the indecency, the wrongs eating at our society’s fabric must be written about and a death sentence.... REVIEWS: Mincing Mammon’s minions Few subjects have polarized people throughout the world as much as globalization. Some see it as the future, bringing unprecedented prosperity to... REVIEWS: Strategy for how we will prevail In his book, The Master Strategist, Ketan Patel says the world is standing on the brink of the greatest... At A Glance Islamic Names takes a look at Islamic naming system, which includes naming customs, the superstitions associated with them and social change as reflected... REVIEWS: Manna for the soul Many associate the term “yoga” with a person sitting cross-legged, his eyes closed trying to enforce control over the mind or else.... In brief The Rise of Benedict XVI: The Inside Story of How the Pope Was Elected and Where he will Take the Catholic Church... REVIEWS: Extraordinary collapse Enough time has passed to permit the scholars, as opposed to commentators, to analyze the end of the USSR. And Jeremy Smith, lecturer in.... REVIEWS: Mini wonders It is heartening to see so many collections of short stories illuminating the otherwise dim contemporary, if not modern, literary world. Short stories in Urdu at that... REVIEWS: The not-so-innocent in Denmark A good thing about the columnist Qamar Ali Abbasi is that wherever he goes, he does not forget his readers. He notes down his...

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