January 29, 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 Crying wolf This book, a sequel to The Holocaust Industry, is about the daily practices of the occupation and colonization of the Palestinian territories by Israel. It aims at... EXCERPTS: Telling it like it is This book consists of 13 detailed profiles of some of the best journalists in history and provides accounts of their rather extraordinary lives... ARTICLE: Mukhtaran Mai in France Paul Michaud reports from Paris that Mukhtaran Mai who was visiting France to promote her book Dishonoured was hailed by France’s foreign minister Philippe Douste-Blazy for fighting.... ARTICLE: Reflections in the ‘Evening land’ Huey Long, known as “the Kingfish,” dominated USA’s state of Louisiana from 1928 until his assassination in 1935, at the age of 42. Simultaneously governor and a United States... AUTHOR: Observation at close quarters A writer is often described — and rightly so — as the conscience of the age, a guardian angel or a watchdog against all that is wrong in society.... AUTHOR: Exile, London and the world In the summer of 2005, Iqbal Ahmed published his first book Sorrows of the Moon, an extraordinary, original, and enjoyable account, which is.... REVIEWS: Above the law The truth must be told. Coming from the homeland of George W. Bush, who has unleashed a relentless war on ravaged people everywhere, Philippe... REVIEWS: Festering wounds Reading is said to open the mind. Sometimes it also opens one’s eyes. Religion, Power and Violence falls in the latter category. Edited by Ram.... REVIEWS: A statement of faith Passion has its own uses, even if it constantly tends to the non-rational. By challenging the accepted notions, it helps us to perceive that every proposition has two aspects... In brief Ganga (Ganges) is the longest river of the subcontinent but the same word with the same spelling in Spanish means “bargain”. Likewise the word baker in the Dutch language means “nurse”... REVIEWS: Cheated out of childhood The back of the book states it’s a work of fiction, but Meher Pestonji painstakingly, not leaving out even the minutest of details, has drawn the.... REVIEWS: A multi-faceted genius BORN in the mid-13th century, Abul Hasan Yaminuddin Khusrau is an amazingly rare personality in the context of subcontinental history. Musician...

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