July 11, 2004 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors. This page is updated every Sunday. For current issue Click here And then the curtain fell AS Nehru resumed the reins of peacetime government in 1963 it seemed superficially as if little had changed. Despite his age and experience of debilitating illness early in 1962 he refused to countenance retirement or to appoint... Excerpts: The iron story DEMAND for iron naturally increased, and with the discovery of ore, people began to construct rude furnaces made of soil or stones, a layer of wood followed by a layer of ore. It would have been eventually noticed... Articles: Coursing the path of loss and defeat Born in 1933, Aftab Iqbal Shamim has a masters in English and Urdu. He taught English literature at Gordon College, Rawalpindi, for 25 years and Urdu language and literature to Chinese students at the Beijing University for 12 years.... Articles: Visual reading wish I could spend more time reading books, but now it’s the little bits of spare time I have from studying or working,” says Asma. For the past year, Asma was doing a programme through Columbia University... Articles: Images of rural Sindh HOW can one resist admiring the beauty of the daily sunrise and sunset on the Indus from the deck of the Lloyd Barrage at Sukkur? Please note that I call the barrage by its original name, approved unanimously by the District... Author: The master critic HE took the city by storm. He was mobbed by fans who wouldn’t stop asking him questions. They wanted to catch his attention. That was Shamsur Rehman Faruqi, the well-known Indian... Children''s Book Review: Just like Mowgli WHEN my father took his first tremulous steps towards learning to email, surfing the net and using Windows, I often found myself at pains to explain that it really was as... Children''s Book Review: Spine-chilling occurrences THIS very interesting novel for children leaves one wonder-struck as it has been written by a fifteen-year-old boy. One very befitting remark for the book is that “Christopher Paolini makes literary... Review: Lost memories A Chronicle of the Peacocks gathers together fifteen of Intizar Hussain’s short stories, translated into English by Alok Bhalla, professor at the Centre for European Studies, Central Institute of English... Review: Not really local, are you? LONG before Simon Schama and Linda Colley began to set the British right, the job of a popular historian was to celebrate Britishness as a historical constant. Other cultures changed in... Review: Father fixations CERTAIN novels read like history, and certain histories like novels. Two recent books on two wars — one on the Second World War and the other on the ongoing war between... Review: Why are women marginalized? EQUITY of women in community resource management is the theme of the book Livelihood and Gender edited by Sumi Krishna, an independent researcher and consultant. She was among the pioneers of... Review: Managing the animal within you A dash of humour tingles you. But humour with a dash of thought sets you thinking while you smile. Read the following:... Review: Take it or leave it LITERATURE has always been one of the finest pursuits of mankind, which has not only played an important role in the development of the human intellect, but has also served as...

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