February 2, 2003 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors. This page is updated every Sunday. For current issue Click here Not a minute of silence For two and a half months the most powerful nation in history rained down a daily storm of missiles upon one of the poorest and most backward people in the world.... EXCERPTS: Nature’s very own sculptures In recent years artists have gone from looking at the landscape as their subject matter to using it as their medium.... ARTICLES: No more disagreements now The City of Oaxaca, Mexico: 12:00am January 1, 2003, eighteen days after my father, Behram Sohrab Rustomji, died in Mumbai. That is what my Mamaiji always called the city where she... ARTICLES: Is the novel really dead? Only a few years ago, you could not open a newspaper or literary magazine without finding some critic holding forth on the death of the novel. This bourgeois art form, ran... ARTICLES: After a very long wait The predictable is happening and advance orders for the next Harry Potter book are piling up. The eagerly awaited fifth instalment of the Potter book titled Harry Potter and the order... AUTHOR: Zahoor Shah Hashmi: A one-man institution Balochi literature is very rich in oral tradition but comparatively poor in the printed text. It was only in the early twentieth century that Balochi began to be transcribed in books.... SYNDICATED: Arabian nightmares Egypt is the cultural and intellectual capital of the Arab world. Even though recent events have focused much Western attention on regional hotbeds of Islamic militancy such as Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia... SYNDICATED: Focus on the American family Joined at the heart is a moving tribute to the courage, resilience and diversity of contemporary American families. Passionate and deeply felt without veering into sentimentality, this book is likely to... REVIEWS: Into the forbidden land This is an odd title for a book which deals with war, cruelty, adventure and contemporary history. But you get the hint what it may be about when you read the... REVIEWS: In the silence of the night Saratchandra Chattopadhyay is a master story teller. Reading his writing is like listening to a flute played in the silence of the night. The narrative’s simplicity charms the reader. This could... REVIEWS: Creating a spirited work force In this age of economic liberalization and “globalization”, when emphasis is on employee efficiency, restructuring, and downsizing, three professors from the Indian Institute of Management and an Indian visiting fellow to... REVIEWS: Explorers’ exploits This is a truly wonderful book harking back to a time when books were things to be treasured and referred to over a life-time. It is handsome and beautifully produced: a... REVIEWS: Why America shouldn’t attack A ‘quickie’ no doubt, the book under review is timely and is a forceful argument against what the author calls “an act of filial duty”, with son Bush finishing what... REVIEWS: Bridging faith and freedom It’s an inarguable fact that America, representing the West, has a great impact on the lives of people everywhere, regardless of whether they are aware of it or not. Muslim thinkers... REVIEWS: Don’t maim them The sepia-tone photo of young Eduardo with his right leg supported by a crutch on the cover of the fourth annual report of the Landmine Monitor, an initiative of the International... REVIEWS: Muslim culture through the ages Chittagong owes much to Moulvi Noor Ahmed (b. Dec 25, 1890) who ranks among the leading Muslim educationists in the South Asian subcontinent. He initiated free, compulsory primary schooling in his...

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