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A Human Silicon Chip tries to capture the philosophical underside of the information revolution even as it traces the boom and bust of the dot corm era. This is not a defining portrait of a young man caught in the gold rush of the silicon valley boom years. There is no conscious portrayal of the physical or mental characteristics of any single entrepreneur who contributed to this boom. The aim of the writer is to evoke the philosophical underpinnings of the ...
The novel is a mix of political, historical, and philosophical fiction. It broadly deals with a current political issue: terrorism and violence. The narrative is told through the subjectivity of one who is known as a "militant." The writer explores how it feels to be hated and to be feared and to be rejected as the violence-makers are. This is neither a critique of the insurgent movement in which the novel’s protagonist is involved nor does it reflect ...
Here is a collection of poems that nishi chawla has written on the theme of war. An you shall see, she has tried to offer several perspectives on various aspects of the war. Her own position is quite non-partisan even as it emerges from her poems in this volume. In addition to writing poetry, nishi chawla has published two novels: The Twist of Truth in 2001 and A Human Silicon Chip in 2003.
In these fifty odd poems, Nishi Chawla has tried to use broad brush strokes in order to convey her own raw impressions and experiences of Indian women and Indian goddesses. That the poems are vignettes may lead the reader to focus on a possibility: the face of a goddess conjoined with that of an ordinary woman, thus humanizing one and elevating one or the other. The poems also makes us see connections and parallels between the lives and experiences of Indian ...