This is the story of James, an ex-cop summoned by an archbishop to secure the release of kidnapped diplomats from Vatican, who faces scandalous revelations along the way. The strong bond that brings a reclusive cop, an archbishop, and a pompous pimp to rescue their friend is threatened by their individual convictions. A failed romance, rebellious seminary life, and disgruntled civil service-all form part of the racy saga that gives you ample dose of action, humour, and psychodrama.It's like having a chilled beer.
"The Man who owned the Earth" uses three very different sets of characters. The two academics with which the story opens soon yields the stage to the persona of a mysterious storyteller, before it finally widens its perspective into the vision of an ancient kingdom under an unusual ruler. Likewise, the story flits from the timeframe of the present into a thousand year old past. Through the conflation of contrasting characters and eras, it attains depth and perspective. The central character of the story is king Ram Pal of Vithalla. A Buddha like figure, he is a complex personage who is obliged to alternate between conflicting roles - that of a scholar and a king who is alive to his responsibilities to deliver his people from a poverty ridden serfdom. A second strand to the story is the unravelling of the riddle with which the story opens. As the story develops, we see how the unusual character of the king is responsible for its unexpected explanation.
The book deals with situations, personalities, and events following the writer's return to his hometown, Calcutta (Kolkata), after a prolonged period of absence, and recounts his observations, some in retrospect, of the changes that have taken place since he left. The author is not given to mushy sentimentalism. It is, in many ways, a critique of the Bengali psyche and the demographic changes that have affected the way of life of the average citizen seen from the perspective of an individual born into privilege. Among other things, the book examines the man/woman relationship and provides interesting cameos of the writer's perceptions of Indian womanhood and, in general terms, the truths that he holds dear to his heart. The book is divided into five chapters, including some amusing anecdotes.
This book serves as a self- help guide for personal growth. The eight chapters need not be read sequentially, but each chapter builds on the other. To keep the interest of the reader alive, each of the chapter has apt stories to convey the theme. The activity sheet in each chapter also provides the individual, insights through experiential learning. The insights shared in each chapter is like clay, it can be mud in shoes, brick in building or a statue that will inspire all who see it. The clay is the same. The result is dependent on how it is used. The Pause, Reflect and Scribble notes are touch points for the adult readers to delve deeper, and eventually your revelation will guide you to Connect to your true nature, for your healing.The book can also be used as an additional reading material on the subject of ethics, values, wellness and integration of body, mind and soul. The book is apt course ware on, The Principles of Self Science for graduate and post graduate programme.
Like the Wild Flower that grows in the wild, in the valley and in the meadow and atop a hill or floats on the river, poetry as well as the stories grew from within me naturally - they are not implants from without . The urge to write was natural, arising out of my experiences in life and how they got entwined with my emotions - my trepidations like the first time when I as a child hesitantly neared the water front and dipped my foot into the cold icy water, how these struck a chord within me and urged me to express my feelings. Slowly like the way a flower matures, the onslaught of varied experience moulded my thoughts and inspired my poetry. It continued to articulate my joy of unfurling the curtains of perception and sharing the joy of living and sometimes the pain that came with it. Life has so much to offer and often so much to take away from us all . Our convictions, our doubts, our joy and our sorrow - all of them blend together in our quest for that ever eluding meaning such feelings hold for us -and what could be more beautiful and more lyrical than to express our innermost thoughts through poetry. Like they say, poetry is magical!
The book is a critique on the structure of the English language. English lacks neutral causative expressions. Eat has a causative in feed, but other verbs do not have corresponding causative forms. That the need for a genuine causative construction is real can be shown by the various processes at work in the present-day English to express Causation learn, sit, stand, etc. are joining the ranks of verbs like grow, wake, etc. to be used both intransitively and causatively in informal English, though help, make, and have, without the infinitive marker to are being used to covey causation, but they do not sound authentic. In Indian languages, causative verbs are being formed morphologically. All these prove that grammar is constantly changing and evolving and not wired into the brain before birth. The book enunciates a program for direct well-meaning interventions to simplify and rationalize English, particularly its spelling. It also engages learners in cultivating rational thinking through short stories, episodes, and skits, written in a simple style, as exercises at the end of chapters. There is a wrong notion in the minds of most Indians that everything ancient is good and should be blindly followed, which creates an avoidable tension in the minds of young people exposed to scientific methods of studying natural phenomena.
This thought-provoking book is about the use of solar energy at our home. It is about a solution to the country¿s most urgent problem¿power shortage. The book details basic principles, usage, and current development and growth of solar energy in India and around the world, with add-on chapters about other renewables, climate change, energy efficiency, green buildings, electrical vehicles, etc. We are proud to present this first-of-its-kind book to be published in India. Even though a few publications in the subject are available today, most are pure technical for a niche segment. This book is now unique in India with its broad range of interesting subjects of mass appeal related to deployment of solar energy, its importance in our daily life, and other related topics and happenings. The introductory chapter of the book looks into the history of solar energy. The next couple of chapters get more specific on solar energy and its usage. The amazing range of products that work on solar energy, which gives us an alternative to grid power, is briefed here next. The next section of the book talks about climate change, its impact on our ecology, and an exhaustive list of organizations working to combat climate change. This is followed by the solar energy utilization around the world. Indiäs power requirements is then followed by the status of solar power in India, the aggressive action plan of the government of India, a serious look on why to minimize the use of grid power, and then tips for selecting and installing the right solar system for your use. The wonderful concept of the world¿s first carbon-neutral city comes next, followed by a chapter on the importance of energy efficiency. The world of renewables has an astonishing range of power-generation techniques, and this is detailed in the next chapter. This is followed by the chapter on green buildings. The main book comes to a landing with a chapter on one of the most promising concept¿electric vehicles. This book on contemporary science and its imminent use is a well-thought-out and prepared collection of useful information for every discerning reader to enjoy reading and improve his/her knowledge on the subject.
This is the story of Anuksha, a beautiful young woman. After the death of her loving mother, Anuksha grew up without love and care of her abusive and drunkard father. At the age of sixteen, she found her love , Anupam, the man she loved most in life. Those were the wonderful days of her life. Days passed joyfully. Then one day, she lost her love. She felt deserted. She grew up to become a beautiful young woman. She was forced by her father to marry a drunkard man of her father's age against her will. Her life had been a tragedy after marriage. Then another tragedy was waiting for her. Six months later, her husband had a heart attack and died. She was forced again to marry the younger brother of her dead husband, who was also like his brother. She spent a painful life . She was always abused mentally and physically. She had been a proud mother of a beautiful daughter. As her daughter grew up, she could feel her mother's pain. Anuksha spent the days remembering the wonderful memories with her lover, Anupam, and prayed to God to bring him back to her life again. Then coincidently, one day Anuksha met Anupam again. She was overwhelmed. They began to meet regularly and fulfill their desires. After the death of her husband in an accident, her daughter reunited both Anuksha and Anupam, and a boundless joy and happiness filled her life, and she began to feel like a twenty-year-young girl again.
Twilight, the novella, gives glimmering and hazy landscapes of Indian politics. It is a curious combination of negative and positive forces. Our political problems require saner solutions. We must purify our system to make it a strong democracy. The Migrant gives an interesting and dynamic contrast between the cultural contours of India and Australia. It gives a peep into the culture of two countries. This novella seems to be episodic and semi-autobiographical, but it is a product of creative imagination. The novella is interesting to read and has many situations of giving mental kicks to the reader.
Terror outfits in Asia are looking beyond the 9/11 episode to terrorize the world with nuclear devices. Rogue nuclear scientists involved in smuggling and dissemination of WMD technologies are eager to help Al Qaeda and similar groups in achieving their objectives. Russian mafia groups are arranging sale of nuclear scrap retrieved from ICBM's dismantled under SALT Treaty agreements to whoever is willing to pay in bullion and US Dollars. Indian Intelligence agencies discover a major money laundering operation in Mumbai. A British hydrocarbon specialist working at a major drilling site is kidnapped and taken to Myanmar as hostage. The Tamil Tiger guerillas of Sri Lanka demand the British Government release a Lankan rogue scientist undergoing prison term for smuggling contraband nuclear material, in exchange of the hostage in Myanmar. The murder of a senior executive involved in the money laundering operations in Mumbai sends Indian sleuths on tracing money trails to Sri Lanka, Bangkok and Chiang Mai. The daring rescue of a Bangladesh nuclear scientist held captive for three decades and blackmailed to work on a project of WMD's by the ISI, exposes the conspiracy to arm Qaeda with nuclear devices.
Mala masti is a satellite dalit community that traditionally depends on the central Mala caste for its survival and sustenance. It is surprising to notice the paucity of works on such satellite-dependent castes in the Indian caste system. While the system itself is founded on structured inequalities drawn in to hierarchized and stratified arrangement, interestingly, the castes at the bottom too exhibit such a hierarchy. These satellite dalit communities are insulted, abused with derogatory terms by the central castes that are themselves much discriminated, and excluded from the mainstream. Such a situation generated much confusion as to their position in the caste hierarchy, bringing into focus mutual claims and counterclaims for superior position. This study brings to light the fact that the ambiguous position of these dalit satellite castes keeps the entire system intact without being critically questioned by those at the bottom, as they are always at loggerheads with other castes at the bottom for a claim of superiority. In this background examination of the position of Mala masti, vis-à-vis the central Mala caste and others in the system, would certainly bring out facts that are not given full focus in the earlier studies.
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