February 27, 2005 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors. This page is updated every Sunday. For current issue Click here Water disputes INTERNAL water conflicts have led to fighting between downstream and upstream users along the Cauvery River in India and between Native Americans and European settlers. In 1934, the landlocked state of Arizona commissioned a navy (it consisted of one ferryboat) and sent its state militia to stop a dam and diversion project on the Colorado River.... EXCERPTS: The Bangladesh makeover THE main issue facing Bangladesh today is how, given its problems of disorder, we can reverse chaotic tendencies and act before the crisis deepens further. The nation cannot afford any more drift, dereliction and degeneration.... ARTICLE: Amusing Ernest THINK Ernest Hemingway and you think of a rugged hunter, not exactly known for clowning around. Yet in one of his last manuscripts the author comes across as a confident and... ARTICLE: Pakistan Studies: the state of the craft EVER since the Ziaul Haq era, Pakistan Studies has come to exclusively connote the establishment’s sanitized version of the Pakistan movement. The textbooks published by the textbook boards follow the official... ARTICLE: For old time’s sake Brig Suleman, 80, a retired army officer, has a heart and mind that are still audacious enough to think up many a challenging scheme to right the wrongs in the world... ARTICLE: Drawn to the story LEWIS Carroll’s Alice struck a neat blow for illustration when she remarked: “And what is the use of a book without pictures or conversation?” Certainly, Carroll’s story has been permanently linked... AUTHOR: Champion of Urdu in India GOPICHAND Narang is the only Urdu writer who has the distinction of being recognized and decorated by the presidents of both India and Pakistan, for his contribution to the language. He... REVIEW: What are dreams made of? SUNIL is a cable television operator. He’s also a soldier in the Army of Shiva, the Shiv Sena. In the latter capacity, his supreme boss is Bal Thackeray, described as a... REVIEW: A history of jihad JIHAD! The very mention of the word anywhere in the world today would make people jump with a frisson of horror. It would conjure vivid pictures of the fall of the... REVIEW: The protean Roosevelt AMONG 43 presidents in the 229 years since the United States declared independence, only George Washington and Abraham Lincoln can claim to be peers of Franklin Roosevelt. His two towering achievements,... REVIEW: A comic book hero is no comic hero “I wanted to write about what we all want and can never have — the ability to rise above our lives, the ability to see our worlds from an impossibly privileged... REVIEW: The fiery message of Iqbal DR KANIZ Yusuf was motivated to write this book after listening to Wazir Agha at a seminar in Lahore. What Wazir Agha said about Iqbal was not to her liking. Perhaps... REVIEW: A man ahead of his times AS is true of almost all major happenings on the planet, the trendsetting Progressive Writers Movement did not come about out of the blue. Long before it made its mark in... In brief THE state of the media in South Asia differs from country to country. It is, therefore, unwise to generalize. But on the whole it can be said that the media in each country reflects the level of political development in that country....

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