January 27, 2008 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors. This page is updated every Sunday. For current issue Click here COVER STORY: Futile chase for justice? VIOLENCE against women has now come to be recognised as a widespread phenomenon that has historical antecedents. As many as 69 per cent of women have reported being physically abused by a man in their lifetimes, the UNFPA reports.... COVER STORY: Interview Need to write this book During my term at the National Commission for Women I felt the urge to write this book. Too many unresolved issues agitated me.... EXCERPT: An ugly truth THE stories in this collection are about these women, almost all of whom came to us as cases during my term as Member, National Commission for Women. I met them during my trips to villages, talukas, towns, districts, wherever cases occurred which demanded our presence.... REVIEW: What lurks within MAHMOOD Shaam’s book, Visiting America’s Mind reminds one of John Gunther’s ‘Inside’ series of socio-political books that were the rage during the 1940s. Gunther had travelled extensively, interviewed a wide cross-section... REVIEW: An ode to Karachi ‘Avoid Accidents Here — sign on Karachi’s Sunset Boulevard.’ The provocative opening of Shandana Minhas’ debut novel Tunnel Vision is a perfect introduction to her book — piercingly witty and acutely perceptive; with a strong sense of place and an avid appreciation of the ridiculous.... REVIEW: Ghostly discourse KIM knows it all but will he tell? The private detective digs into his memories. He questions and re-questions Kim about the girlfriend he was about to marry. Two souls destined to be one; living together in harmony while sharing dreams of a new life ahead and setting professional goals for themselves.... AUTHOR: Speaking her mind BA-GUNAH-I-BEGUNAHI — by the sin of innocence. The tracks stop short at a story; the title says it all. It was this story which made me seek out the storyteller. Researching literary responses to 1971 in Pakistan, Umme Umara’s story became a rallying point for me.... REVIEWS: India Since 1947 NO one can afford to underrate the astonishing convenience offered by IT in the pursuit of knowledge, but at the same time nobody can deny the continuing usefulness of printed material either,... ARTICLE: Tales of bird and book LISTEN: just as there are Parsis and Parsis, so are there birds and birds. You don’t understand what I intend to convey from my present pons asinorum, do you? Well, years... ARTICLE: Books not bombs INDEED, it takes a big heart and a strong believer — in God and humanity — to set out on a mission to build schools, mostly for girls, in remote areas ‘on the other side of the globe’. Greg Mortensen has done that, through charity and donations by Americans and... REVIEW: Family ties BACK in the late 1920s, when undivided India was ruled by the British and the fight for a separate homeland was nowhere in sight, a young man born in Lyallpur (Faisalabad)... COLUMN: Zeal of a missionary BENAZIR, democracy and modern poetry — what a fine combination presented by the poet as a prescription to all our social ailments. The poet, late Mubarik Ahmad, firmly believed that the combined forces of Benazir and modern poetry could achieve democracy for us....

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