June 29, 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 Guilty of treason, really? Before proceeding to survey the main events in the trial and condemnation of the last Timurid King of Delhi, and the circumstances leading there to... EXCERPTS: Not a mystery any more Answering the ten most frequently asked questions often provides an opportunity to explore attitudes and to correct common misunderstandings.... ARTICLE: It’s Harry Potter time again As if there wasn’t enough excitement already surrounding the publication of the latest Harry Potter book, confusion and outright theft added high drama to its release on June 21.... ARTICLE: US needs an Einstein We live in strange times when history is repeating itself. A sharp reminder of this came last month, when the transcripts of the Congressional hearings conducted half a century ago in... ARTICLE: Shaw was wrong, after all In 1903, two teenage brothers, William and Gilbert Foyle, failed their Civil Service exams and decided to sell their textbooks. Three years later, they had founded six London branches of Foyle’s,... AUTHOR: Razia Fasih Ahmad: Woman with the viewmaster The wind rustles in the corridor. A door opens in the distance. Some people are talking in the room at the end of the corridor. A little girl walks across a... SYNDICATED REVIEWS: Full Nelson Edgar Vincent calls Nelson “the most tangible hero in England’s history”. That is probably true, but it is not the whole truth. Nelson is also one of England’s first heroes in... SYNDICATED REVIEWS: Here’s a P.G. tip All P.G. Wodehouse fans owe Tony Ring a great debt of thanks, for the publication of A Prince for Hire marks the culmination of a remarkable piece of detective work. The... REVIEW: What 9/11 did to the media In two recent wars — one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq — it was the same media organization that was at the receiving end of brutal attacks. That was... REVIEW: Games scientists play Many people in the world would agree that the most dangerous threat to the existence of humankind is the nuclear bomb. However, there are scientists — biologists, virologists, epidemiologists — that... REVIEW: Life behind bars Lord Jeffrey Archer is as famous for reinventing himself in times of trouble, as he is for his successful careers as politician, writer and businessman. When he was recently convicted for... REVIEW: Like foam on ocean waves Islam Under Siege has one of the most riveting opening paragraphs I’ve come across — perhaps because it is so relevant to our times; and the rest of the book too... REVIEW: A year in the life of the Kalasha When Books & Authors requested me to review a new book on the Kalash people of north-western Pakistan, I literally groaned. Most books I have read by expats have been anthropological,... REVIEW: Nationalist or fundamentalist? A tourist guide of Tatar origin told me in Bukhara that the Russian conquest of Central Asia had been a progressive development, as it had aided the Central Asian peoples to... REVIEW: The path of thorns Amrita Pritam is no longer a stranger to the lovers of Punjabi literature. Her individualistic artistic approach in stories has placed her among the major Punjabi fiction writers of the world.... REVIEW: Paeans for Momin The 19th century was an era of great turbulence, trial and tribulation for the Muslims of India. They touched the nadir of their political life and lost the pre-eminence that had...

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