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THERE IS A METHOD TO GRASP THE ELUSIVE WORLD PEACE (NATO you hold a significant part in this grasp)
THERE IS A METHOD TO GRASP THE ELUSIVE WORLD PEACE(NATO you hold a significant part in this grasp)The climax is where humans experience the most enjoyment. Any book, movie, or just about anything else. Therefore, we either misjudge or miss the best part of something when we don't finish reading a book, watching a movie, or doing anything else.Since about a century ago, humanity has been in a state of awakening. What does "woken status" mean to me? the point at which people recognize how destructive humanity is and how it has impacted the existence of our species for over seven thousand years. The reader will wonder why there have only been seven or eight millennia. Prior to that, humans lack...
Running With Knives - update to Dining: A Second Cigar?
Update to a "A Second Cocktail?" in the "Let's Dine First" chapter:I want to rip my tongue out. Wash my mouth out with perfume and baking soda. Scrape it with sandpaper, because rinsing and brushing with baking soda alone barely helped. The odor and taste in my mouth seeping into my nostrils and lungs is wretching. Why oh why, did I do this to myself?It is three in the morning and I am awake. Sleep should return. Instead, I lay there barely moving trying to not think about my oral cavities. Eating a two-day old dead shark would be better than this.A thought creeps into my mind. An idea for a story. Now I have to get up and write before the ideas are forgotten.Last evening's after dinner cock...
Running With Knives: My Geometric Path
Live Your Life Without Fear. From an author who couldn't stop moving to get what she wanted.
We all are in need of occasional instant gratification. Over 20 short stories of living fully with pleasure and one terror. Life changes from a positive can-do attitude are relayed and may inspire you to seek new adventures.
600 Devils
600 Devils is a gripping generational drama about an emotionally dysfunctional truth seeker turned smuggler turned undercover operative. From the Alps to the Burmese jungle to a Senatorial chamber in Washington D.C. From refugee to redemption, a life impacted by smuggling, cannabis, psychedelics, conmen, cops and assorted holy men.
Fasting Firepower
A Guide to Fasting, Detoxification, Natural Healing and a Mountain Moving Life! No one should lead a debilitated life for lack of this vital information.
CHILDREN & PARENTS by DUANE GREAT WRITER SEEER
CHILDREN & PARENTSHow Many Parents know how & also where the Children they are raising came to them from? It is more than obvious in the 'physical-sense' with a Physical Body, and then there is the UnSeeen Part, that actually, from where the overall preparation took place. Until unaware people Actually Become MoreAware & MultiDimensionALL, they will keep Agreeing to the 'rumors&stories' they have been raised with and continue to hear&experience from other unaware people, and especially the Authorities, who purposely keep unaware people Distracted with 'madeup stuff' so as to continue to ReCycle into More BodyTypes and More Continuous UNconscious Lifetimes! This is Not See...
Exploring the World of Portus: The Creation of the Fire Lord Trilogy
Overview: The Creation of PortusThe first book, the one that started it all, The Last Voyage of the Betty-Lou, was written because of a dream I had about a flying boat. In the dream, I remember that I was standing on top of a mountain, and this flying ship, like the old time sailing boats like the Nina or the Pinta of Christopher Columbus era, flew by. The sun was setting and the puffs of clouds were glowing yellow and orange. I saw the ship’s brilliant outline as it flew by the setting sun as the ship floated by me, and I wondered, “How is this ship flying?” Then it turned around and came back. It gently floated so near that I reached out my hand and touched it.I woke up with this viv...
The Fire Lord Trilogy
Never before has there been a hero like Gideon Livingston, the Fire Lord. In today's world of violence and evil, we need someone like him. Gideon's world of Portus is experiencing the cylce of evil, just like Earth is experiencing now. He faces the evil and overcomes them. That's what superheroes are supposed to do. Granted, he has control over fire, which allows him to do some amazing things, but his true heroic nature stems from his passion for liberty and his compassion for the oppressed. He does this without choosing violence as the first option, but he does not shy away from it when it is necessary. Unlike most fiction heroes, he is not conflict...
Benign Flame: Saga of Love
The attractions Roopa experienced and the fantasies she entertained as a teen shaped a male imagery that ensconced her subconscious. Insensibly, confident carriage came to be associated with the image of maleness in her mind-set. Her acute consciousness of masculinity only increased her vulnerability to it, making her womanliness crave for the maleness for its gratification. However, as her father was constrained to help her in becoming a doctor, she opts to marry, hoping that Sathyam might serve her cause though the persona she envisioned as masculine, she found lacking in him. But as he fails to go with her idea, she becomes apathetic towards him, and insensibly sinks into her friend ...
Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth
If passing through youth was like crossing the mirage of life for Chandra and Nithya, it proved to be chasing the mirage of love for Sathya and Prema though for plain Vasavi, Chandra's pitiable sibling, it was the end of the road.As life brings Chandra, who suffers from an inferiority complex for his perceived ugliness, and Nithya, who was bogged down being jilted by Vasu, together, they script their fate of fulfillment.And as poetic justice would have it, Sathya, who caused Prema's heartburn, himself was led down the garden path by Kala, doing a Sathya on Sathya.Just not that, life has in store just deserts for Vasu owing to Nithya's retribution as he tries to stalk her.Besides, after many ...
Glaring Shadow - A stream of consciousness novel
In a stream of consciousness mode, Glaring Shadow is the self-account of the life and times of a man, who liquidates his immense wealth only to consign it to the flames.The agony and ecstasy of his life as he makes it big in our materialistic world and the way he loses his soul in the bargain, only to regain it when tragedy strikes him makes one ponder over the meaning of success in life.This philosophical ‘novel of a memoir’ is a compelling read that is conducive to contemplate about the nature and scope of human relationships.This free ebook, in multiple formats, is in the public domain in umpteen ebook sites.Chapter 1, Glaring Shadow He had the soul of our times, and is the names...
Jewel-less Crown: Saga of Life
It's perilous penning this blurb.It's fine when man is modest about his work.It even affords him the aura of an invisible crown!But what about his work?Were it an art or craft, it is there for all to see.What of a literary work of an unheralded author?Well, lauding the same might raise one's eyebrows.Failing to praise wouldn't make a 'jewel-less crown' either!Why not see, if this is the great Indian novel.This is the story of the rise and fall of an ambitious man, the decline, and the decay of his conniving wife, the trials, and tribulations of their wayward son as well as the grit and gall of a spirited woman, who enters into his life.This depiction of their life and times not only pictures...
Prey on the Prowl - A Crime Novel
Even as Detective Dhruva was enamored of Kavya, whom he rescues from her kidnapper, Radha, an alleged murderess on the run, gatecrashes into his life.But when Kavya too joins him after her man was poisoned there ensues the tussle of a love triangle, which gets unraveled in a poignant end, but not before a series of murders.So, then who could have poisoned Ranjit the realtor, Shakeel the Inspector, Pravar the criminal and Natya his accomplice?Well the needle of suspicion tilted towards Pravar that was till he perished with his mate, but then who was the one? Could it be Radha under the scanner for her role in the death of her husband Madhu and his mistress Mala, Pravar's sister?Or was it...
Of No Avail: Web of Wedlock
Lured by the pitch - All marriages are made in heaven but some are delayed on earth: We endeavor to hasten them all - Priya goes to Renuka Marriage Bureau.Scanning the prospects, when she spotted Venu, whom she slighted long ago, she rushes to him to bring about a dramatic encounter.What brought about Priya’s change of heart to seek her former suitor and how Venu responds to his old flame’s fresh overtures lend suspense to their romance in this novella. This free ebook, in multiple formats, is in the public domain in umpteen ebook sites.Chapter 1 – Surprises of Life ALL MARRIAGES ARE MADE IN HEAVEN BUT SOME ARE DELAYED ON EARTH:WE ENDEAVOUR TO HASTEN THEM ALL.So read t...
Stories Varied – A Book of Short Stories
This is a collection of the author’s short stories that deals with women's dilemmas in the Indian social milieu accompanied with unique denouements. While 'Ilaa's Ire' contrasts woman's lot of the day with her eminence in the Vedic Age, '201' Qualms" depicts her predicament, torn between personal loyalty and citizen's responsibility. As "?" addresses woman's marital stress in an alien land, 'Cupid's Clue' is about her acting on rebound in her native place. Even as 'Autumn Love' lets woman discover the marital void in her life, 'A Touchy Affair' makes her amenable to her man's other woman. Just as 'Love's How's That' inflames woman's old flame, 'A Hearty Turn' brings her...
Onto the Stage – Slighted Souls and other stage and radio plays
This is a compendium of the author’s Indian stage and radio plays:"Slighted Souls" is a poignant love story set in rural Telangana, beset with feudal exploitation of the downtrodden dalits. Besides forcing the dalits to toil in the fields as bonded labor without impunity, the land owning doras had no qualms in reducing the womenfolk of this ilk as sex slaves in the gadis, which leads to an armed resistance engulfing an young couple.Men at work on Women at work" is a tragic-comic episode depicting the fallout of sexual harassment at the workplace in the Indian urban setting with its traditional cultural underpinnings."Castle of Despair", built on the ...
Puppets of Faith: Theory of Communal Strife (A Critical Appraisal of Islamic Faith, Indian Polity ‘N More)
The sublimity of Muhammad's preaching in Mecca and the severity of his sermons in Medina make Islam a Janus-faced faith that forever bedevils the mind of the Musalmans. This thought-provoking work, besides dissecting the anatomy of Islam, steeped in the Quran, seeks to depict the psyche of the Musalmans, shaped by the proclivities of their prophet, vicissitudes of his life and the attitudes of his detractors, which the mechanism of their umma perpetuates. More to the point, aided by “I’m Ok – You’re Ok”, the path-breaking work of Thomas A. Harris and Roland E Miller’s “Muslim Friends–Their Faith and Feeling”, this book, for the first time ever, psycho-analyzes the...
Sundara Kānda: Hanuman's Odyssey
Whereas Mahabharata's Bhagvad-Gita is taken as a philosophical guide, Ramayana's Sundara Kãnda is sought for spiritual solace; many believe that reading it or hearing it recited would remove all hurdles and usher in good tidings! Miracles apart, it's in the nature of this great epic to inculcate fortitude and generate hope in man for it’s a depiction of how Hanuman goes about his errand against all odds. Besides, it portrays how Seetha, on the verge of self-immolation, overcomes despair to see life in a new light? With rhythm of its verse and the flow of the narrative this sloka to sloka transcreation of the canto beautif...
Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of Self-help
Bhagavad-Gita is the most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue’ – William von Humboldt. In this the beauty of the Sanskrit slokas is reflected in the rhythmic flow of the English verse of poetic proportions even as the attendant philosophy of the Gita is captured in contemporary idiom for easy comprehension. Though it is a matter of consensus that Bhagvad-Gita in the present length of seven hundred slokas has many an interpolation to it, but no meaningful attempt has ever been made to delve into the nature and extent, not to speak of the effect of these on the Hindu society at large.The...
Inane Interpolations in Bhagvad-Gita (An Invocation for their Revocation)
The Manusmriti, the social doctrine of yore, and the Bhagvad-Gita, the spiritual tome in vogue that lay down the discriminatory dharma (duties) of the four social classes (castes) have been the bugbears of the Hindu backward classes. However, to their chagrin, of late, as the latter is being mindlessly promoted even though the former was constitutionally debunked, they began advocating that it too should be dumped in a dustbin.Ironically, the improbability of their progenitor Krishna, the architect of the Gita, relegating his own ilk to the social margins failed to dawn upon these that Gita supposedly slights, even to this day! Thus, their intellectuals, instead of seeking to reclaim their p...
On Attitude to Money
While a conflict of interest, be it in life or in fiction, can bring about self-introspection, strange though it may seem, a casual encounter could lead to self-discovery. So it happened with me in the wake of my rebuff to a dogged tempter, “money is not my weakness” and his “what is your weakness” repartee; for the record, either I had been a straight purchase officer or a strict loss assessor, occupations amenable to monetary mischief. However, the idea of this article is not to gloat over my uprightness but to present the genesis of my attitude to money and the vicissitudes of my life as a subject matter for possible research. But the caveat is that much of my growing up that...