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This novel unfolds the mysterious story of Mr. Harisingh, the young journalist whose spirit is held up in purgatory after his accidental death. The Spirit establishes a communication link with the narrator who visits the cemetery for his personal peace. The Spirit reveals the whole of his life-story to the Narrator and asks him to do his ‘Shradha’ (after-death religious rites) to release him from the limbo. The Narrator, moved by the Spirit’s traumatic experiences, agree to perform the religious rituals the Sprits longs for. After the ‘Shradha Vidhi’, the Spirit returns to his body and his life is revived like the story of a phoenix which rises from its ashes. The novel is a curious and mysterious mixture of science and 20th century surrealism. The theme of the novel is spun around the excesses and extremities of the Emergency period in India. It fictionally describes how the whole opposition, the rightists and the leftists, were made to suffer for the ambitions and wrongful governance of the country.
On the significance of popular religious prints in India.
Seminar papers.
It is largely based on author's experiences, both personal and professional.
This Book Is Based On The Field Enquiry In The Life And Works Of 41 Elite Artists In India, Art Galleries, Art Connoisseurs, Critics And Dealers And Art Public. Nmber Of Illustrations In B&W, Condition Good.
The highest accolade I can give Prakash is to say he is a humanitarian. He has great empathy for all kinds of people he encountered in east Africa where he grew up, in the United Kingdom where he studied Industrial Chemistry, and in Canada where he makes his home today and works with Metro Testing and Engineering Services Limited as a Senior Materials Engineering Technologist. He is also an internationalist who seeks to understand the richness of the human spirit through great spiritual leaders past and present like Mahatma Gandhi of India, Dalai Lama of Tibet, the Reverend Desmond Tutu of South Africa, and Spiritual Chiefs of our Native North American Indians. He has given back to his commu...