DAWN - Books and Authors; April 06, 2008

April 06, 2008

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Paradise lost Clive Ponting’s A New Green History of the World is an eye-opener. It deals with a detailed study of man’s exploitation of nature; how different civilisations...		REVIEW: Islam in Europe The book looks at the lives of young Muslims in Europe, and examines the implications of scrutiny, that in many cases includes multiple levels...

EXCERPT: A global challenge Islam, Islamic fundamentalism and Islamo-fascism have become important and recurring themes since the ‘war on terror’ dawned on the world....		REVIEW: Revealed in translation Let’s be plain for there is no other way of saying this: the publication of this translation of Dastan-i-Amir Hamza is a major event. With this work...

REVIEWS: Playing with numbers Nikita Lalwani’s debut novel Gifted was both a pleasure and a pain to read. This story about Rumika Vasi, a math prodigy born into an immigrant...		REVIEWS: An outsider looking in Poverty is a universal human condition. And despite centuries of progress in all fields humans have not been able to eliminate poverty....

REVIEWS: Delightful renderings The Penguin Book of New Writings from India is a delightful collection of fact and fiction. In the fiction section there are contributions....		EXCERPT: Informal terms The Lahore office of Ford Rhodes Robson Morrow that I joined in the first week of April 1966 was located in a nondescript building in a side...

EXCERPTS: Saying things The collection of poems represents the struggle between the inner and outer selves, illustrating the rift separating real sensibilities...		ARTICLES: Say it with a book ‘Say, do you have some money left?’ asked my sister. I, at that particular time, was staggering under the weight of various Mary Higgins Clarks....

ARTICLES: Read to live, live to read Perhaps the best known advice and one of the most widely quoted lines regarding selective reading is from the famous essayist and philosopher....		ARTICLE: The compulsive dreamer When friends and acquaintances die, you feel sad. When poets pass away, you feel devastated. That’s exactly how I felt when Munir Niazi....