Book Reviews by Simran

  ONCE THERE WAS ME Bobby Sachdeva Caught in the web of communal violence repeatedly, Bobby Sachdeva stares at his burning house set afire by the bloodthirsty mob of the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi. As a fourteen year- old, his world turns upside down, exactly at the age his father had escaped from Pakistan during the Partition of India. Recovering from the trauma, Bobby re-builds his business and journeys across the US and China, experiencing a life unhindered by religious animosity. Having experienced both sides of religion – of immersion and detachment – he starts questioning the role of religion in our lives. Based on his vision of an emergent India, Bobby finally submits a PIL in the Supreme Court for religious shrines to distribute their excess income for the downtrodden. What happens next as religious hardliners turn against him? Sachdeva has produced nine short films in Hindi and three feature films in Punjabi and started a fully equipped studio, Ajab Productions, in his hometow

  Main aryaputra hun Manoj Singh ABOUT THE BOOK आर्य कौन थे ? कब थे ? कहाँ बसते थे ? क्या करते थे ? कैसे रहते थे ?... इन अनगिनत प्रश्नों के उत्तर की प्रामाणिक कथा है —‘ मैं आर्यपुत्र हूँ ’ । रामायण श्रीराम की जीवनकथा है और यह अब तक की आदर्श जीवनकथा होनी चाहिए। ठीक इसी तरह महाभारत समाज की कथा है और यह अब तक की महानतम सामाजिक - कथा होनी चाहिए , अपने आप में संपूर्ण। इन दोनों कथाओं से आर्यों के चरित्र का अनुमान तो लगाया जा सकता है , मगर उनका समग्र रूप नहीं दिख पाता , क्योंकि श्रीराम व श्रीकृष्ण अवतारी पुरुष थे , जबकि मैं यहाँ सामान्य आर्यों की बात कर रहा हूँ। आर्यों की कथा ही क्यों ? क्योंकि विश्व इतिहास का यह सबसे बड़ा झूठ रचा गया कि आर्य बाहरी और आक्रमणकारी थे। यह पश्चिम के विद्वानों की विद्वत्ता और निष्पक्षता पर प्रश्नचिह्न ‍ है। फिर यह भारत के वामपंथी इतिहासकारों की गुलाम मानसिकता है , जो उन्होंने इस आधारहीन काल्पनिक मत को आगे बढ़ाया। जबकि एक

  MAN HUNT PRIYA KUMAR ABOUT THE BOOK If you truly want to feel freedom, you need to step into the wild where the law of the universe is at its glorious best. If you really want to feel alive, get out of the four walls of the little point in space you call home and embrace the infinite, immortal truth of who you really are. You cannot know life living in the box of your daily existence. Step out into the planet, step into the wild, and you will come alive. Set in the Nagarjuna Tiger Reserve, the story is filled with Suspense, Drama, and Divinity, which brings fore issues like deforestation, genetic modification of animals, corruption in media, vested political agendas, and a larger environmental impact stemming from our responsibility. Get into the canter for an adventure of a lifetime, through the jungles of India’s most pristine tiger reserve. And as you do, keep your eyes open to the truth about the state of our planet. We were given its custody, and we have polluted it with o

  Winter poems SABARNA ROY ABOUT THE BOOK The poems contained in this collection, Winter Poems, by Sabarna Roy were inspired by the relatively mild season that prevails in Kolkata following the season of festivities, the Durga and Kali Puja, and portray myriad shades of human life. Some of them deal with the imaginations of death and home while still others the idea of loss and coming to terms with gradual wasting of life. Many aspects of human life and commonplace human impulses are examined and brought to life through a range of imaginations and varied metaphorical associations. The poems are sure to delight the readers and generate a whole range of emotions among them. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sabarna Roy (44) is a qualified Civil Engineer from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He works in a senior management position in a manufacturing and engineering construction company. An avid reader and a film buff, Roy is widely travelled in India and lives in Kolkata with his family. He starte

  Abyss Sabarna Roy About the book Abyss is a full length play in two acts with an interval in between. It is essentially a racy crime thriller full of gritty suspense. Act one builds up slowly to result in a crescendo of conflicts between personalities and ideas finally to end with an unnatural death before the interval. Is it a suicide or a murder? Act two evolves through a series of incisive interrogations to unravel the truth, which is deeply disturbing and affecting. As the play unfolds into a very well crafted situational thriller, underneath is the debate about using land for agriculture or for industry, the ethics of a working author and the nexus of a modern state all wonderfully enmeshed into its storyline and the personal lives of its subtly etched out characters. The highpoints of the play are its central conflict between a mother and her daughter and its female sleuth ? Renuka About the Author: Sabarna Roy (44) is a qualified Civil Engineer from Jadavpur University,