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Asura : Tale of the Vanquished The story of Ravan and His people Written by Anand Neelakantan and published by Leadstart. The author is  a former engineer in a PSU and has come up with this novel after lot of deliberation in which he narrates the story of Ravan from his own perspective. All the other versions are either of Ram or Hanuman and no one has tried to understand Ravan and his side of story. As it is said that the history is written by the victors and so none will take up his side. In the introduction, the author writes that Ravan is portrayed as 10 faced traditional income, ism places, importance on the control of emotions and projects the intellect alone as the being supreme.  His guru Mahabali advises Ravan to shun, the nine emotions of anger, pride, jealousy, happiness, sadness, fear, selfishness, passion, and ambition. Intellect alone is to be revered. But Ravan argues and states that all these 10 emotions make him a complete man without any pretence of holiness ...

“श्याम फिर एक बार तुम मिल जाते!”             इस उपन्यास की रचना गुजराती साहित्यकार श्री दिनकर जोशी जी ने मूलतः गुजराती में किया है जिसका बाद में हिंदी अनुवाद प्रकाशित किया है विद्या विहार प्रकाशन ने। पुस्तक की विषयवस्तु महाभारत अंत के ३६ वर्ष उपरांत द्वारका नगरी में व्याप्त अराजकता है और गांधारी के श्राप के फलस्वरूप कैसे यादव कुल में विध्वंस मचा हुआ है। यादव कुल की आपसी लड़ाई और मद्यपान को लेकर कृष्ण व्यथित हैं और इसी क्रम में वन में उन्हें ज़रा का बाण लग जाता है। ज़रा को जब ज्ञात होता है की भूलवस बाण कृष्ण को लग गया तो वह क्षमा याचना करने लगा। श्री कृष्ण उसे संबोधित करते हुए कहते हैं, “पाप आचरण नहीं, भावना है ! आचरण कर्मप्रेरित निमित्त है - भावना ही आत्म प्रेरित है। तू भावना मुक्त है, वत्स । तुझे पाप स्पर्श नहीं करेगा..”         जैसे ही अर्जुन को यह ज्ञात होता है यादव कुल में कलह है वो कृष्ण से मिलने द्वारका और फिर प्रभास जाते हैं। वन में कृष्ण से भेंट और उनके आदेशानुसार कर्म करके जब अर्जुन महल लौटते हैं और कृष्ण के ...

"The Tibetan book of the Dead" is translation work of Prof. Robert Thurman. This book is translation of "The Great Book of Natural Liberation through understanding in-between" or “The Bardo Thodol” in Tibetan. This is the translation of the original composition by Padma Sambhav. There are many translations of this great text. However as per the preface of The Dalai Lama, this one by the author is more realistic.  The book explains the phenomena of dying and is related to body of literature popular in Tibet which is similar in theme, and is kind of a manual for people who are facing the death of self or of dear ones. Death is one of the most mystic and researched topic in the world. There is no absolute truth, no explanation which can tell us to what happens after one person dies. This book attempts to tackle and explain the phenomenon with help of Tibetan Buddhism. So the book basically explains the in-between state, which refers to whole process between the death a...

Bandits by Eric Hobsbawm published by hachette, is a book on history of Bandits explaining their rise and expanse as a social phenomenon. If we see the profile of the author, he is one of the accomplished writer and historian and has produced major works like the Age of Revolution, the Age of Capital, the Age of Empire, the Age of Extremes, apart from several other books on social, political and economic aspects. Banditry is an old phenomenon. Bandits came into limelight due to their relentless opposition to the authorities. India has long seen banditry phenomenon and were called as "Dasyu" which was a bit different from Dacoit. Colonel Sleeman has written good account of same in  " A journey through the kingdom of Oude in 1849-1850". Even the  Boll ywood was fond of the topic which was mainstay of the films like Bandit Queen on the life of Phoolan Devi, Ganga ki Saugandh, Sholay and recently Paan Singh Tomar which has been played by Irrfan Khan. Mostly these movies...

                                       This Explains Everything                                         John Brockman Published by Perennial is a compilation of different articles written by various scientists, academicians and researchers having expertise in their areas. It is an attempt by the author to explain all major phenomena, especially related to science space human life in a single omnibus.  Now packing more than 125 articles in 400-page book is quite a task, both for the editor and the writer. On the one hand it gives benefit to the reader for getting knowledge, even if superficial, while on the other it devoids the depth of understanding for any topic discussed in the chapter. Nonetheless, having gone thr...

Trust Hernan Diaz Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows.  This fiction is based in United States of America around early 1900 written by Hernan Diaz and published by Picador Books in 2022 and Booker Prized. The book is a story about business family which has migrated from Glasgow to United States of America. The book is in four parts which offers four different narrative. The unique format of the storytelling is USP, it has used both the descriptive format as well as the producing the first person account of the characters. It is a story of the couple Andrew Bevel and Mildred in New York.  In part one Bond, the description of the perspective by novelist Harold Vanner describes how money was made by Benjamin Rask (pseudonym) in trading. It is also the most popular version which was acceptable in New York. Rask was a trader and finance wizard with seldom any inclination for emotional aspects of life. When he got married to Helen, his life takes a sweet ...