May 11, 2008
Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors.
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The painful past
 I was born almost seven years after the ‘Fall of Dhaka’ No one in my house, school or on TV ever spoke of it. If 1971 was ever spoken of....
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EXCERPT: The making of a book
 How Fault Lines came about is an interesting story by itself. In 2006 I happened to be in Karachi for a book launch. Thirty-five years after 1971...
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EXCERPT: The Last Encounter
 Another push by the soldier propelled Rashed into the room. He stumbled. The Pakistani officer standing in front of the table caught hold of him....
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REVIEWS: On the eastern front
 ‘All quiet on the eastern front’ still resonates in my ears. In those days, due to the absence of any credible source of information, we could only rely...
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REVIEWS: Aspirations and challenges
 EVER since its birth in 1971, Bangladesh has been dogged by misfortunes, the more serious and enduring of them being man-made. It has witnessed the assassinations....
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REVIEWS: Baghdad blues
 This is a passionate book, written after a long stay in Iraq during its worst periods. The author does not seem to object to the act of the invasion of Iraq....
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REVIEWS: The whole truth
 Daniel Lak loves India, and what started as a passion for Indian food almost a quarter of a century ago has culminated into a riveting narrative on India....
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REVIEWS: An insipid recipe
 Take three mothers, add three daughters. Stir in some ethnic flavour and spice with cross-generational conflict. Add a dash of age-old Indian wisdom....
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AUTHOR: Dateline: Islamabad
 ‘Pakistan in particular and South Asia in general, is a journalist’s dream and I will go back in a heartbeat.’ With this comment Daniel Lak sets out the tone...
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Classic corner
 I remember reading Peter Pan saying the following lines, ‘To die will be an awfully big adventure’. That was the instant I knew that Scottish novelist...
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REVIEWS: A worthy subject
 Zahida Khan Sherwani, known to the world of letters only by the Urdu initials of her name, Zay Khay Sheen, was born in the last decade of the 19th century....
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COLUMN: Commitment to philosophy
 Some extremist groups with their own version of Islam appear to be dominating the Muslim world today. As a reaction to it, some intellectual circles...
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REVIEW: Fresh wounds
 Just like her father Z.A. Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto appeared determined to bring change in Pakistan’s social setup. She was a dynamic leader with a new vision....
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