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This is a world book of sublime wisdom. In an artsy and poesy mould, Mia Kamara Bey makes the World roll inside out to reveal a holistic life intended for humanity pervading all religions. The basic elements are effulgent enough to conjure up the esoteric delight awaited by all. This book has an all encompassing approach bolstered with subtle astrology to render the ultimate succour to humanity.
"Strategic calculations is the result of magnificent libations
Cultivating nature essence with my potent
presence Possibilities infinite
Deliverance confirmed
Walk the path and discern
Unlearn the wickedness that’s been taught and even sought"
- In the poem 'Empowerment Through Wellness'
"Significant change occurs, shifting the way you think with the use of mantras, affirmations and symbols.
Changing your mental state to a more optimistic view and viewing challenges from a higher perspective is a major key."
Learn to commune with The Great Mother Earth
Learn to Pay Homage to Mother Nature
ELSE BYSKOV DELVES OUT THE PROLIFIC LEGACY OF MARTINUS THOMSEN
How are the physical world and the spiritual world placed? The raging issues of global hunger, nuclear energy, animal extinction, extraterrestrial life, and reincarnation are not disparate outcomes. The human trajectory of evolution in consciousness appears rather nebulous to most of us. In the last century Martinus from Denmark had divination and achieved cosmic consciousness that led him to reveal the locus that instills the universe after considering both the physical realm and the spiritual realm. Logic, intelligence and love make the cardinal matrix that Martinus invoked to discern the merger of science and spirituality. Every entity in this creation is sentient and hence our attitude must be accordingly inculcated. The rational perspectives offered are captivating to any sceptic reader. What is the future of earth – atrocious infighting or harmonious coexistence or is Armageddon looming ahead? Martinus had brilliantly defined the quintessence of evolution to answer such tortuous questions.
Else Buskov brings out this treatise to serve several pertinent questions that baffle us today and were not addressed by Jesus Christ at his time that exemplify the structure of the universe and the nature of God. The cosmos comes revealing!
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Key to the Library of Transformation
Key to the Library of Transformation
Are you scrambling for that wisdom lost to time, after being exasperated with the glut of dreary information doing rounds? Here you find powerful insights on personal development, spirituality, health, psychology, and even the mysteries of the universe.
Are you scrambling for that wisdom lost to time, after being exasperated with the glut of dreary information doing rounds? Here you find powerful insights on personal development, spirituality, health, psychology, and even the mysteries of the universe.
You stand at the threshold of something extraordinary. The universe has conspired to place this book in your hands... This is no mere coincidence—it is a calling. A whisper from the depths of your soul, reminding you that your dreams are within reach, your questions have answers, and your journey is only beginning.
Here is a catalogue of over 50 books that enables you to hit the elevated path of knowledge. The prolific author, Robert Anderson of this entire knowledge corpus considers himself ‘a fellow seeker on the journey’.
The rubrics of family relations is tantamount to the upbringing of children. At a bookstore, pick out ten fiction books and perhaps you'll find four of them show bobbing relationships quaking the household. A doting mother nudging her child against its father or it could be the father as well, who splits mother-child bonding. How does it happen and what drives a spouse to create this rift? The worst sufferers are the credulous children.
Robert Anderson has delved into this aberration inflicting irreparable damages upon these tender human offshoots. A child is a puerile creation of nature to be nurtured on the natural lines. In humans, a relationship with parents molds the child. A warped relation wobbles the natural balance ordained to shape up a young soul.
This handbook explains you this unrecognised canker, why it sets in, the different ways it happens, how to identify its various malignant intrusions and also the feasible remedies. A lucid approach to prevent or discover or defuse a tinderbox in your backyard.
Robert Anderson is a proponent of LOVE, and holds it ultimately to be the winning streak of existence as well as its realization. The profundity of LOVE has impelled this author to contrive this book upon a pervasive malaise that is ruthlessly taking its toll upon the unblemished souls of tiny-tots.
“Every being deserves kindness, love, and respect. Take a stand against the abuse of animals and people!”- Robert Anderson Love Wins
Robert Anderson chips in with this guidebook precisely for course correction on life and existence preventing your vital energy from getting frittered while wandering astray.
Robert puts forth very handy solutions to frequent problems - ‘How to change state in minutes’ is possible using simple techniques. This book has no religious polemics but only inner engineering in a graded manner. You are advised to ‘Anchor the Emotion with a trigger (a physical trigger)’. Reading the guidebook sends you reeling under curiosity expecting the momentous change that is under your thumb and your pitfalls can be a bygone misfortune now feted with windfall.
Revelations remain galore. We all want increased mind power. “But did you know that when multiple minds come together, the power is exponentially increased? This is the essence of the Master Mind Group.” Can you hold back to read more about it. It all matters in verity, an urge of ultra thriller!
Robert is a proponent of quantum consciousness. He reifies everything through the quantum paradigm to formulate findings and perceptions.
This life-changing book offers enhanced resilience through the combined tack of inspiration and motivation during NLP and CBT bolsters one to combat adversities and reach full potential.
Corporate acumen accrues through imperceptible habits.This compact management primer serves as a subtle beacon for course correction in the American corporate sector. To iron out those workforce digressions and managerial detours and cut down frittering expenses to overhaul optimisation is a surefire optimal multiplier.
Negativity is spilling over in the American corporate workplace. Yet there is the dazzle of bright hope flaming across for you to seize that inspiration page from the books of those management mavens whom the author, Randall Haug encountered during his extensive presence in the corporate career. Thus Randall entwines anecdotal history-in-the-making vis-à-vis history-in-the-breaking to illustrate the prudent approach to set the cardinal areas that decide the course of business. The book instills the dictum, ‘IT’S NOT FOR ME.’
MEET THE HAUGS
MEET THE HAUGS
Is happiness elusive? Planning with due checks and balances ensures coherent execution of our aspirations. Greg Davis vouches for readers to make happiness go up in grabs. Checkmate comes with turnkey solutions for happiness. With the paradigm of chess, one sees movers and shakers; winners and losers finding a whoop of joy in serving checkmate to oddities and stumbling blocks. The book narrative impels tingling flashbacks with thrilling gusto. Greg has a novel trope to convince people. If you’re a misery gut floundering for that cure-all, this book is a surefire.
Is happiness elusive? Planning with due checks and balances ensures coherent execution of our aspirations. Greg Davis vouches for readers to make happiness go up in grabs. Checkmate comes with turnkey solutions for happiness. With the paradigm of chess, one sees movers and shakers; winners and losers finding a whoop of joy in serving checkmate to oddities and stumbling blocks. The book narrative impels tingling flashbacks with thrilling gusto. Greg has a novel trope to convince people. If you’re a misery gut floundering for that cure-all, this book is a surefire.
Empyrean edict prevails upon this entire creation in subtle ways. J.L. Berkowitz sets off ethereal romance wafting across a cornucopia of passion amidst a tryst with nature. There is seraphic enchantment seizing Aree, the prima donna of the story. The narrative dabs the elixir of vivified imagery of Celestrian: the Holy City of Angels and Archangels. Engrossing narrative streaks out upon two dimensions of creators and mortals crisscrossing each other. The invisible Faermorreya is not just a figment of imagination but is ecological fallout.
Intrepid challenges and self-discovery impel readers to endure and give up for the people we truly love.
Can the inextricable mumbo-jumbo of KISMET and the fallout of KARMA be linked?
Dr. Michael Shandler redefines spirituality and vindicates the mortal limitation of sanctimonious cults and congregations. He exhibits how absolutism of facts stand on a slippery ground and no beliefs or dictums remain sacrosanct per se. This memoir instills some beliefs while routing out several ideas one believes as sacrosanct. It’s not just a story of vicissitudes but has a subtle connotation peeling inside out.
Karma & Kismet is highly readable to both casual readers and also the accentuated minds to ennoble their perceptions.
The missing mom falls heavy upon her kids. Searing thrill coupled with empathy engross readers. The dreaded moments thrust upon a meek and gentle child to don the mantle of a detective putting the dumb cop to shame, a perpetual infamy borne by the men in uniform. Subtle outcomes crisscross to question the sanctity of familial bonds and perturbations skulking therein showing life is a curate's egg.
Missing Mom is a groundswell of young adult mystery serenaded with a sweet love story.
Blockchain is becoming an all weather pop-up, a new paradigm and is no longer a pipe-dream.
This book is a myth buster to ward off morbid fears clogging the populace to call it a ‘great disruptor’.
It vouches for a plethora of services with over 12 billion USD in the global market.
This book analyses human minds and socio-political trends and government actions down the ages to extrapolate the next generation of internet experience already making waves in our daily lives.
Sylvain Metz
Here the past is not yet over and the present is warped into the past. A dashing damsel at the NightGlen School of Magic is making potions to rip off the earthly norms. Gliding shadows await all readers to sense the spirits. Sinister pogrom claims déjà vu ancestry cutting across bloodlines to leave you white-knuckled.
Antonio has devised such an incisive technique to mortify readers gasping for an escape from this psychic dragnet.
Antonio Carlos Pinto with his tack of Sombroespério presents a tale of danse macabre with the interplay of light and darkness.
Quantum facts have turned stranger than fiction! The book verily ushers its readers into ‘joyous awareness’ once they are able to fish out the requisite energy to ‘align with the infinite’. It’s easier done with reading Ken’s ‘Aligning with Universal Consciousness as part of Quantum Energetics’.
There is a path breaking finding in this book – The Dual Anxiety Theory, propounded by William G Alston. He claims that information on ‘types of anxiety’ is hardly available elsewhere.
The stress-response biochemical system is not a human frailty but a God's creation to inculcate ‘righteous behavior’. To be ‘empowered or impaired’ is one’s sheer sensibiity.
Hard times can become the springboard of success. It’s a tale of rags to glad rags. Brooke Evans outshines her odds to be Just Brooke. Such a doughty account is stranger than fiction.
Opulence amidst haunting memories conjures up this double walker at the magic shop where one sees ‘no magic left’.
This mental tussle of conviction of true identity forms the bedrock of the novel. The story thus moves between these two layers of haves and the have-nots. There is an undercurrent of life that is scraping by while there is an urge to catch up living on easy street.
But which one of the duo is the real Brooke – the narrator or her double walker? Who has the song within? The reader is the Queen maker!
Fish Nealman has raked up some humanist perplexities in this story. His characters analyze the perpetual parody of life and religion with grated religious beliefs at every stage for readers to see its worthiness to be upheld and has made an unstinted mockery of its practices.
Fish Nealman tosses love as a tactical gambit of humanism serenaded by Christian mores. But is there any hallmark of Divinity or does it stand on a slippery ground? The tussle between the identities of the sacred and the profane gets nebulous with the narration of Esteban, while he is in the making of a church priest.
The corporate bandwagon is much sought after till hard lessons fall sooner or later. How does the beck and call of the corporate grandees trap you? To jumpstart the stargazing career you keep no space for trivialities and then what a treachery comes to shag you!
This book is laid on an allegorical management table to go prancing far from the madding corporate of archetypal dragnet.
The author follows a witty lingo to fire a salvo and denude the foppish grandees – just grin and bear it. It is the aberration in the cogwheel that the author wants to point out, the frittering of life force in the corporate corridor.
Euclidean geometry streaks across higher realms of metaphysics with the makeover of fractals projecting much of a muchness. The geometry of shapes has pervading realms of prescience into it. It is not a revelation. Matthew dwells on this interplay of perception and absolutism with geometrical lore. He hewns philosophy out of shapes and goes on patterning to construct and deconstruct philosophies.
The book brings together esoteric aspects and semblances in entire creation and in relating the varied facets of existence and non-existence too.
Hyperdimensions tweak one’s intuition into astonishing complexity yet remaining imbued with the beauty of it.
Innate fears and phobias are a common occurrence that impinge on the expression of life. Innate fears are not congenital but are all acquired through muddled reasoning.
Phobias are a clogged rationale conduit. The hedge of reasons is a deterrent to any groundswell of morbidity. Kalliope in her trenchant note wards off stereotyped and clichéd views. ‘Irrational fears and irrational phobias’ are the key problems. The book moves in a bantering exchange of cursory questioning to analyze phobic situations or tendencies or thought processes that are deviant from their natural course.
THE GOWER HISTORY SERIES
Lore of local history:
King of England was toppled in a civil war that snowballed from this Swansea Castle in the Lordship of Gower.
ALINA: The White Lady of Oystermouth is the only book about Alina de Braose.
SWANSEA MIRACLE: In the year 1290 telltale confronts history at Swansea.
Ann Marie Thomas has brought out raw history and tenaciously processed it savoury.
The bunch of transcendental numbers are on the rise and not just limited to ‘pi’ and ‘e’ but also unfold further with the results of mathematical operations done upon these numbers. Liouville numbers and the Gelfond-Schneider theorem opened the can of transcendence.
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The mumbo-jumbo of extraterrestrial affairs is intriguing but when this savoir faire grips our own planet’s international relations, it gets on pins and needles. Peacenik denizens of the planet Proxima vis-à-vis Earthlings make a consortium of think tanks charting a new multi-world order.
Readers larking for heebie-jeebies will find this sci-fi to be jaunty enough. At no point, does the story get far-fetched but holds on the human emotions.
The present artisan posterity in several parts of India still carry centuries-old tradition of decorative motifs, patterns and design ensemble. This book digs out dollops of incognito facts that depicts Indian textiles in the world fora as coveted merchandise. Amidst these fading artistic vocabularies the book showcases riveting photos of historical Indian textiles from around three dozen collections at places spread over four continents.
Some jinxed onslaught has denigrated India’s illustrious stature of textiles that wielded its charm over other nations. The author deplores that ‘the record of India’s textile production and trade preceding the late medieval period has survived mostly in historical literary works, temple inscriptions, court chronicles and travelogues’.
The period of 15th century to the 17th century during the late Sultanate period is dealt here. Both Hindu and Muslim craftsmanship evolved in tandem symbiosis. Most of those vintage textiles have not remained in India but are stashed in places like Egypt, Tibet, Indonesia or even Portugal. A rare chapter of textile historiography is awaiting here!
Whitehead, an agnostic writer chooses St Joseph’s mission, Baramullah to catch the thick of events at the onset of lashkar invasion from Afghanistan following the partition that deluged the Kashmir valley with cadavers raising skirl of wail to fall too much upon the reader to singe his cockles. For writing this medium sized book he rummaged through an intriguingly large number of living testimonies to tie the missing ends. The writer has traipsed a non-partisan stand that scooped out the glaring flagrances and thereupon commented against Maharaja’s fiefdom, Pukhtun pillage and debauchery, Pakistan’s gameplan or be it India’s vested interests. Whitehead braved to sneak in the Laskar-e-Taiba heartland in Muzzafarabad, POK. He’s fizzled out several existing notions holding them on slippery ground.
ANDREW WHITEHEAD
This book with its splendorous pictures surpass to become a delectable platter for ocular delight often spiked by the deceptive look of meandering river or chocolate cake, Siachen has been a raging development and yet partially understood by the populace. Kunal Verma achieves to ferret out the genesis of Siachen and its prevailing state as well as the nemesis meted out to this terra incognita.
The dollops of history starting with Zorawar Singh’s bravados and then streaking across an astute vivisection of world affairs cuts a gnashing dash upon the readers.
The roving pictures of the Karakoram range by Dipti are simply astounding. The authors narrate the developments that led to the attack on ‘Quaid Post’ on 18 April, 1987 leading to ‘The capture of the world’s highest post’ by Pakistan. The section has some derring-do pictures of crossing ice crevices and vertical climbs on snow.
The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother led to this book. Integral yoga is a very powerful synthesis of different schools of yoga.
Yoga accelerates the spiritual sojourn by providing a conducive ground of a healthy body and a purified mind. Yoga doesn’t suffice for callisthenics but instead attunes and streamlines the body-mind concord.
Integral Yoga aims at a collective psychospiritual transformation by dealing with the ego, dealing with desires, surrendering oneself, learning to accept diverse situations with equanimity, profess love and involve sincerity.
The author has blacklisted gluttony as the mother of many maladies’ for an inebriated urge to gorge turns disastrous. He lays increased emphasis on increased intake of dietary fibre.
Ramesh Bijlani dwells on sleep disorders. To sleep well one must learn how to sleep. He analyses the state of deep dreamless sleep and the phase of rapid eye movement (REM). He elaborates on sleeplessness and sleep apnea as well as the repercussions of inadequate sleep.
The advises certain prudent strategies and a corrective lifestyle.
In a major flashback, the book beams out the past, present and perhaps the future of Saudi Arabia. The book carries out a vivisection of the Saudi hegemony that towered post 1930s. The book is a conglomeration of contributions from various discerning people from round the world edited by Madawi Al-Rasheed. She has segregated the book into three parts – politics beyond frontiers, the prospects and limits of religious expansion and the media and the multiple actors.
From the servitude of the Ottomans and then the British, Saudi Arabia rose ‘into a central economic and strategic hub in the age of nation-states. Its geographical position and oil wealth have made it a key geopolitical centre for American expansion in the Middle East, Asia and Africa’.
The USA during the Cold War usurped antagonistic forces in Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nicaragua and Afghanistan with the camaraderie of Saudi Arabia. The oil wealth that was accrued thereof was cycled in ‘concrete political projects’ abroad leveraging Saudi role in tandem act with American vendetta. ‘In addition to oil and location, Saudi religion was also a key factor.
This expository corroborates the fact that,’ an expansionist Saudi economy was destined to grow and flourish outside the borders of the Saudi State’. And so, ‘economic wealth and Islam’ ensured a great supply of material and symbolic religious capital to pursue an aggressive expansionist policy abroad.
Delineate the domains of Life and Work
This book is the need of the hour when crass materialism and avarice has put our life on an inane wild goose chase. One craves merely for aggrandizement in professional life to notch up more and more. But at the end of the day we miss out the tranquility and sanity too. We’re virtually growing into mutant Frankenstein like malevolent beasts. The co-author Walker makes candid confession - ‘I believe that my struggle with life and work is the same kind of struggle faced by most of us. ….For most of us, finding a way to balance work and life starts with a gradual erosion of our commitment to one way of life…. This book is written for this kind of struggle.’
The book rolls down nuggets of quotations from vanguards of society to give credence to author’s views. There are several soul wrenching questions that we hoodwink and overlook.
The authors recount their own experiences of a futile life impregnated with mundane frivolities. The book is replete with riveting anecdotes making it affaire de cœur. The book well serves a handy panacea to some of the all-pervading circumstances debilitating us and enervating problems sapping us out.
You too can make miracles!
The authors explicate out how thoughts, words and actions get transmuted into bodily constituents – chemical and electrical substances that become vanguard messengers coordinating entire gamut of bodily systems viz. immune system and circulatory system taking account of heart and cholesterol in its very ambit.
The God-given sprit is in itself a boon to surmount mundane trivialities and transgress into an esoteric realm. The authors, a father-son doctor duo do a tandem act to resonate out this message to the readers. ‘The father’s life was tempered by the privation of the 1930s and the fear, then exuberance of the 1960s. From opposite sides of what we once called the generation gap, they join to present their exhilarating science of the human spirit.
Dr Arnold Fox vouches by dint of being in medical profession for the last 30 years –Unhealthy germs of the spirit and mind can destroy our immune systems, weaken our hearts, turn our body chemistry upside down, bring on depression and despair and predispose us to failure in every aspect of life’ The maxims with Biblical tenor that have been culled in the book remain vibrant in our present society.
This autobiography is imbued in a didactic tenor though not straitlaced nor is it a shibboleth work that stands derelict today. This second part of his autobiography relates to his life-story beyond twenty three years of age that was written by NC as an octogenarian having reached the ripe old age of 81 and got completed on reaching 89 mortal years.
This book cites populist measures, hypocritical stance of society, the fallacy of de rigueur obligations tending to subjugations and et cetera for the lucre of crass philistinism. His passage through multitude of situations ushers in a panoramic vista of an entire gamut of mundane affairs compelling upon the reader to look into his scourged soul singed by actions bereft of conscience. NC makes his readers implore with –wither art thou weltanschchaung? Harping on parochial mindset with obliterated views, can mankind exult over its success by its own demise?
NC flings open his knowledge arboretum laced with oodles of witticism and raillery often sending readers into peals of laughter. This rare insight of events transcending timeline, geographic and political boundaries, all adopting a non-partisan stance relegates the book to an exalted classic. And quite so, his then editors branded his writings as ‘intellectual whippings of a very high order’.
The clairvoyant Guruji
Has mysticism become redundant? Mysticism remains incorrigible to the masses, a jargon to reckon with metaphysics. Many believe mystics to be an extinct species like the Tyrannoauras rex, says Arundhati Subramaniam. Several intriguing questions integral to life and death puzzled the author until her encounter with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. The book is tailored for endearing such truth-seekers who remain flummoxed and flabbergasted with the rigmaroles of life. The book is weaved in the form of a brilliant dialogue between the Guru and his protégé, a ‘seeker’. Sadhguru’s ways are very unorthodox’ like a non-conformist. But Sadhguru’s abrasive ways have always fostered growth.
Sadhguru recounts his occult prowess as well as about metaphysical science. He abhorred going to schools. The readers find drifted in a metaphysical world, they might have ever since yearned to peep in. The book gives an uncontrived inside-out view
The book ‘offers an unprecedented glimpse into the world of a contemporary mystic, a prodigious living archive of knowledge’ . The course of enthralling discussion ‘touches on every conceivable question that a seeker might nurse about the realm of the mystical’. All those niggling doubts are put to rest.
Occult powers are not mumbo jumbo
Can fables be enacted in our real life? Quite indeed, the occult makes fact and fiction converge. Incredulous though, Mayah Balse ferrets out such instances of aberrations, vagaries, freaks and eccentricities to topsy-turn her readers. And all this happens in today’s modish terra firma, amidst the milling crowd of the hoi polloi. The book encompasses all supernatural activities by mystics and alike, from faith healing masters to dare devil acts. Mayah also delves into the theory of spiritual evolution. The book also answers several questions haunting the Indian society about the mystics that lie beyond the purview of human comprehension and perceptions.
Incredulously Mayah Balse discovers flesh mortifiers, black magicians, death defiers who despite getting interred remain alive, yogis who can voluntarily stop their pulse and heart-beat, mystics who can reify honey and ash from thin air and the clairvoyant masters.
The book also deals with the Hindu concept of reincarnation and transmigration of soul as propounded conclusively in the Upanishads.
Faith-healing and thaumaturgic power are proven facts worldwide. Psychokinesis has been experimentally proved. There are numerous apocryphal stories related to Indian folklore.
The book amplifies those hushed reverberations that does rounds in the metaphysical corridor and ever remain enshrouded. Quite indeed the book offers a fascinating reading with figments of fancy becoming tangible for readers to take stock of occult science and also dabble with the realms of recondite extra sensory perception.
Once Bitten Still Not Shy!
Is Sino-Indian bonhomie a farce? The author has been juggling several roles from being an adept administrator to the deftness of a writer. Call him a whistleblower or a good Samaritan drumming his duty to disseminate nuggets of truth stashed under politique shambles. Right upto 1949, Pandit Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India had maintained to give sanction to the sanctity of ‘the Tibet Government’ as a distinct sovereign entity. But then, he seized a bizarre turn to concede to the Chinese Communists and their avowal to liberate Tibet.
The Chinese invasion of Tibet sent alarm bells ringing in the minds of the then president Dr Rajendra Prasad and several statesman like Sardar Patel then Defence Minister. But yet Panditji remained nonchalant and rebuffed all fears as preponderous. Arun Shourie tables ample evidence giving excerpts from Panditji’s letters, how he scorned at the Chinese troop’s incursion into the Indian territory.
Yes, indeed this book is bound to jolt the Indian mass and cause upheavals among the echelon of society to realize we are sitting on a tinderbox. Arun Shourie has proved that Panditji’s appeasement policy of China has hung the sword of Damocles over the Indian peaceniks leaving us vulnerable preys for Communist hawks. Shouldn’t we confess being turncoats on Free Tibet stand that we had initially adopted? Panditji’s foreign policy that has led to the present anathema will haunt the Indians forever.
Why should Tibet be wrested from China? Isn’t Tibet an integral part of China when Beijing administration claims to possess ten lakh files to corroborate evidence on claiming Tibet as its dominion? The book serves to dispel some misplaced notions among world community. The author, Man Mohan Sharma embarked on a fact – finding mission to ferret out The Truth. The book is a fact - file on the integrity of Tibet, its sovereignty and its present captivity.
The author has also included several photographs to rebuff ‘any Chinese claim that Tibet was a backward society and that they are the noble saviours is malicious and wrong’. The book conclusively establishes Tibet’s claim for sovereignty, UNO’s ineptness to grapple with this horrendous situation while the world community has remained a mute ringside spectator. The author has sent a clarion call to the comity of nations across the world that the Tibetan imbroglio is a blot on the face of humanity and the onus falls on the world camaraderie cutting across lines to cut the Gordian knot and resuscitate The Dying Tibet.
The kingdom of Thraldom
Slaves Among Us
In this age of ultra-modernism, learning about slavery thriving under clandestine wraps ruffles up one’s credulous beliefs. When we at large boast of liberated world with uninhibited ideas, there exists in its underbelly annals of gruesome and grisly tales of incarcerated Homo sapiens. Their abject life under utter subjugation lets down modern-day achievements. Young nubile girls get exploited for flesh trade or other appeasement act at the beck and call of more powerful strata of society. Indeed it’s a horrendous saga when a human gets choked with one’s pent-up feelings. And this pall of subjugation descends over people of all nationalities. It is the meek and gentle who are susceptible to get engulfed by these luscious and avaricious marauders even in hip places like downtown London. We are reminded of Boris Pasternak juggling Dr Zhivago and Jekyll Hyde with a difference that the book doesn’t face a ban for its exposé. Slavery with a new makeover but with the same macabre face lurks in out modern society, marauding with aplomb panache. Slavery has found different forms and also different masters with suave veneer and affable countenance. But what remains unchanged is the pitiable fate of the trampled underlings. Its been two hundred years when slavery has been abolished in America. But yet there is flagrant violation and our society is reeling under such turpitude.
The book rattles down the travails of destitute men and women. Rahila Gupa clears the decks for a real manumit of human civilization.
Indian Diaspora: Trends and Issues
The great Indian Exodus
Diaspora has now become a catchword and is quintessential to understand the humanities today. The Indian diaspora has become quite a phenomenon – its multitude divested by geographical dispersion, historical contexts, temporal frames, authorial positions and political affiliations charting its own trajectory in more than 100 countries. ‘This volume is thus an assemblage, not a narrative’ holding its delectable platter to the erudite cognoscenti while it might appear uneventful to a dilettante reader. This book is the brainchild of academics working at the Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora, Hyderabad.
The final section of the book delveS into the psyche of the Indian diaspora to ratiocinate meta-mobilis and its polymorphous existence.
The book offers rare vignettes of globetrotting forays of Indians to regale its readers with the globetrotting Indians. The book divulges prognosis with acuity to prove this mobilization not to be a lemming-tide syndrome.
‘Indo-US relations have often bellied hopes and expectations, with reality playing truant repeatedly, notwithstanding…commonality of fundamentals’. The last decade has witnessed a tailspin with an increased bonhomie and powwow forging the hitherto strained relations.
Vivek Chadha goes on to cut the Gordian knot into its very shreds for his readers to take stock of the enigmatic state of affairs. The book is a rare stockpile of confabulations and deliberations made thereupon to plough the mindscape of his readers. The author has laid the tapestry depicting the emerging equation after mapping the contours of the coming era that ‘can in all fairness be termed a strategic relationship today’ and ‘has built its own momentum, which cuts across party lines in the US and in India too’. The book shatters tinpot rhetoric doing the rounds worldwide by splurging expositions upholding absolute perspicuity.
Mahatma Gandhi’s dictum, ‘I know no diplomacy save that of truth’ prodded the bureaucrat writer, Dr G Sundaram to uphold probity of his profession.’The public has the right to know. They are not well conversant with the happenings, the methods and machinations in Government. They blame the politicians all the time….At the same time, they may not know about the civil service politicians (second rung of politicians!) who are in fact more dangerous than the professional politicians’. This conscientious urge goaded him to jot down his memoirs in ‘Plight of honesty’.
The author traces his life journey from a nondescript village in Tamil Nadu to becoming the former Secretary to the Government of India during his tenure in the Indian Administrative Services.
Dr G Sundaram ridicules the jurisprudence of Indian system. A single person is often entrusted with several portfolios; C Rangarajan, Montek Singh, Rakesh Mohan to name a few. ‘This is the bane of our system of not looking beyond one’s nose…should cast the net wide all over the world and bring in new people.
The author throws up flashbacks that later caused much upheavals. Candid confessions jiggle across the book.
The forty-fourth president Barrack Hussein Obama had vouched the US to give a facelift. He is the first African American to be elected president of the United States. The authors brandish Obama’s versatility, ‘ Obama is of biracial ancestry, of a Kenyan Luo father and a Kansan White mother. With his upbringing in Honolulu and Jakarta, and his Ivy League education’, he is a class apart.
Obama grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. Obama largely grew up with his white mother whom his father had left while he was two years old. Later Obama saw his father just once who later died in an automobile accident in 1982. As an adult Obama confessed that during high school he used marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol, which he described at the 2008 Civil Forum on the Presidency as his greatest moral failure. Such is his uprightness to squarely make candid confessions.
The much-touted US invasion of Iraq backfired upon the avowed saviors as well as upon their protégé procreating horrendous repercussions. This book offers a threadbare analysis of this war by derring - do masqueraders to yield humanitarian succour that fizzled out but its insidious fallouts ricocheted across the entire globe to snap existing entente and redefine international comity. Miserable though Saddam Hussein’s regime was, life is actually worse for the Iraqi people now’ blows the gaffe over the pragmatics of waging this war of attrition.
The authors make a parody of the mastermind behind the genocide. Why did the US embark on this invasion disregarding the fact that the inspectors of the International Atomic Agency (IAEA) maintained that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction? The global consequences of the invasion of Iraq are far-reaching.
The book deals a scathing diatribe on George Bush regime. The author has culled data from bona fide sources and thereupon deliberated to surmise his implications of US invasion of Iraq. The book is a curtain raiser to the US suzerainty jeopardizing an entire nation putting human lives in the throes of excruciation.
The Reliance Syndrome or the Natwar Canker?
Who’s the scam - kingpin and who’s the petty whipping boy? The author explicates the ‘Iraq oil for food’ scam entailing a hideous saga that debunked the former union external minister K Natwar Singh. Corruption is palpable at all levels cutting across political parties; the malaise has percolated down to all strata of Indian society, the top echelons amongst the worst affected. The sordid episode led debates in both the houses of Parliament but remained defunct. The author sneaks his readers into this scam brewery milling with contagion. The author lays bare the Volcker Committee report.
The author divulges, “that all the political parties get huge financial help from Reliance which is why they remain silent even at the most egregious violations of law by Reliance.” Perhaps the worst deprivation comes from the media, supposed to be a neutral watchdog. They too are in cahoots with Reliance doing an appeasement act and turn a blind eye to the gaffe failing to upkeep vigilante. If Reliance suzerainty has sway over political parties and can also gag the media though on its volition then the situation can prove detrimental to the democracy of our country. If public coffer be bungled and siphoned off by the guardians of society, sustainable development will ever remain bleak.
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Let's take peek at bygone epochs to celebrate the International Museum Day on 18th May. Ten years back I'd written this feature in a newspaper.
Let's take peek at bygone epochs to celebrate the International Museum Day on 18th May. Ten years back I'd written this feature in a newspaper.
THIS PRIVATE MUSEUM SPRANG FROM A MOTEL THAT WAS ON THE VERGE OF BEING SOLD OUT. THIS REMOTE TOWN IN THE HIMALAYAN UPPER REACHES BORE THE INFAMOUS KARGIL WAR IN 1999 FOUGHT BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN. BUT THIS CULTURAL MERCANTILE VIGNETTE HAS SURVIVED BY FLUKE.
THIS PRIVATE MUSEUM SPRANG FROM A MOTEL THAT WAS ON THE VERGE OF BEING SOLD OUT. THIS REMOTE TOWN IN THE HIMALAYAN UPPER REACHES BORE THE INFAMOUS KARGIL WAR IN 1999 FOUGHT BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN. BUT THIS CULTURAL MERCANTILE VIGNETTE HAS SURVIVED BY FLUKE.
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