THE BOOKS
“I have got only one life to live and one death to die; there better be a good cause to live and a good cause to die.”
-- Karna's Alter Ego
Kavyanjali -3 - Manifestation of Love
ISBN : 978-8192814544
Love has many splendours, and Shri Krishna reveals his love in different hues to different persons in his life. While for Radha, it is romance, it takes different shades for His friends, for His parents, for His devotees. Even for His enemies He has reserved a special kind of sympathy.
It’s a literary work that needs to be savoured delicately, with love and devotion.
Kavach of Surya
ISBN : 978-8192814537
What stands out in this story is not whether Vasu completes the task, but how he undertakes the mission and what the expedition turns him into. Here, the journey is more important than the destination, and the reader shall see how the writer takes his protagonist through a subtle spiritual search.
Ruskin Bond
Kavyanjali -2 (English Translation of Poems of Haldhar Nag)
ISBN : 978-8192814520
Haldhar Nag is a true balladeer of the soil. The words, the imagery and the rhythm of his verse are steeped in a simple earnestness that resonates thoroughly with his audience. He has a rare ability of transforming episodes from the Indian mythology into songs that reverberate so well with local sensibility and aspirations.
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Karna's Alter Ego
ISBN : 978-9384180119
Karna, the ill-fated hero of Mahabharata. Many feel he deserved to win. If only luck had favoured him...
5000 years later, we have a man named Vasu, who is much like Karna – born illegitimate, very talented but denied all credits in life, rejected in love, misses a medal in the Asian games, gets caught for telling an innocent lie, overlooked for promotion. He begins to identify himself with Karna, and interestingly Karna appears to him after every debacle to assuage and encourage him.
It seems Vasu is Karna’s alter ego.
Kavyanjali -1 (English Translation of Poems of Haldhar Nag)
ISBN : 978-8192814513
The poet’s (Haldhar Nag’s) flow is irresistible and the metaphors he uses reveal a picturesque imaginativeness. Shri Surendra Nath has undertaken a formidable challenge to present Shri Nag’s creations in English. His strenuous effort to see that the poet’s flair and forte survive the mutation can be comprehended from the footnotes. Undoubtedly he deserves our congratulations for having done a service to literature by presenting to a wider readership a minstrel and a bard.
Manoj Das