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Title : The Immigrant
Author : Manju Kapoor
Publisher : Random House India
‘The immigrant’ is the story of a thirty-year old Nina who has apparently missed the bus of matrimony at the right time. But one fine day, unexpectedly a proposal arrives from a dentist Ananda settled in far away lands of Halifax, Canada. The marriage arranged by their respective families takes place and Nina leaves her home and country with stars in her eyes to the alien lands. But within a short period of time, the stars disappear…

An ex-customs officer, a distinguished intelligence officer, a film producer, a novelist – all rolled in one. Yes, this is B.L.Gautam. After having experimented with poetry in Hindi and Urdu, he came up with Andy Leelu (reviewed here). It is a pleasure having conducted an e-interview with him and I am glad to be sharing it here.
1.      You seem to be having both sides of your brain extremely well developed. The logical and analytical left side, and thoughtful and intuitive right side. How do you handle both of them…

Title : Andy Leelu
Author : B.L. Gautam
Publisher : Zorba Publishers
ISBN : 978-81920669-5-0
Andy Leelu is a story of a rebel, a troublemaker, a good-for-nothing boy who has come to his maternal uncle’s place – Sehore from his birth place Mohindergarh. This is not a regular pleasure visit to Sehore which he used to indulge in with his mother during every summer vacation. This time he has come to Sehore for good, the reason being his mother not able to bear the abuses and atrocities that her husband…

Mathias B. Freese is a multifaceted personality who is a teacher, a psychotherapist and an author. I got a chance to read and review(here) one of his books –  ’This Mobius Strip of Ifs’ and was quite impressed by his writing style and the sincere way in which he has shared his life with his readers.

It was a pleasure to conduct an e-interview with him for our readers here.

1. When did you start writing your experiences in the book form ? How has been the writing experience so…

Title : This Mobius Strip Ifs
Author : Mathias B. Freese
Publisher : Wheatmark
ISBN : 978-1-60494-723-6
As I received this book, the title intrigued me to a great extent. I had no clue what the term ‘Mobius Strip’ means so obviously searched the web to find out about the same. A Mobius Strip is actually a twisted ribbon or is described as a surface with only one side. It is the basis of some scientific models and is used as a metaphor by mathematicians and physicists. It illustrates how,…

Title : Trade Winds To Meluhha
Author : Vasant Dave
Publisher : Vasantrai P. Dave
E-format ISBN : 978-81-922506-0-1
In ‘Trade Winds to Meluhha’, the author Vasant Dave recreates the scene of Bronze Age in Mesopotamia and Indus Valley Civilization. As the title of the book suggests, the story revolves around the trade between the two ancient civilizations.
Samasin, the stable boy of a Babylonian – Nergal, gets accused falsely in a murder case of a visitor who happens to be a businessman from Meluhha. He absconds from that place…

Title : Into The Wild
Author : Jon KraKauer
Publisher : Macmillan and Co
Sometimes after finishing a particular book, I find myself at loss of words to write its review. And for such books it takes a long time to compose the review. Somehow ‘Into the Wild’ belongs to that category. Its been almost two months since I finished reading this book and had jotted down the points that I wanted to include in the review but was not able to actually write it down. Christopher McCandless and his…

Rabindranath Tagore(1861-1941) – ‘Gurudev’ of the whole India, who bestowed the title of ‘Mahatma’ on the father of our nation, who gifted us our identity and whose verses are sung every day at every nook and corner of our country in the form of our National Anthem – is not called the ‘Complete Institute of Literature’ for nothing. Tagore is one of the greatest poets and thinkers India has ever produced.

I know my words will miserably fall short of the kind of paeans the person of his stature deserve.…

Nilanjan, congratulations on your first book ‘Bali and the Ocean of Milk’ and on such encouraging response from the readers.

What all research went in creating ‘Bali and the Ocean of the Milk’ and what has been the most interesting phase of this whole process starting from conception of the idea to having the first copy of your book in your hands?

This is not a research heavy book. It is essentially a work of imagination, not a retelling or strictly speaking not even a re-imagination but a new story…

Title : Living Fully – Finding Joy in Every Breath
Author : Shyalpa Tenzin Ripoche
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN : 978-1-60868-075-7

Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche was born in Himalayas and was trained as a Lama from the age of four. Rinpoche received transmissions from all the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism and he is a lineage holder of the Great Perfection (Dzogchen) tradition. Dzogchen is an ancient spiritual teaching developed in Tibet within Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The word ‘Dzogchen’ means ‘total perfection’ which refers to the true inherent nature…