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Siddharth Gautam, prince of Kapilavastu and heir to the throne, has everything. Yet he is dissatisfied. The fundamental problem of suffering, dukkha, bothers him. He leaves home, renouncing crown and family, and becomes a wandering seeker. Siddharth finds gurus to guide him, practises extreme asceticism at one point nearly starving himself to death and then rejects everything, for the knowledge he seeks constantly eludes him. He then meditates, and one epiphanic ...
With his debut collection of short stories in English, Fair Tree of the Void (1990), Vilas Sarang established himself as a writer of great gifts, and one with a unique sensibility and literary vision. His works since-in Marathi and English-have confirmed his reputation as one of India’s finest and most daring contemporary writers. The Women in Cages brings together all his short stories written in English, both previously published and new, brilliantly ...
This is the story of Pramod, a young Indian, who, like many others, goes to the USA hoping to live a more ‘meaningful’ life, but is quickly disillusioned and, in desperation, opts for a totally unknown place which happens to be Basra in Iraq. This is an area of the world known as the ‘cradle of human civilization’, the land of Enki, who was an all-powerful Sumerian god—the ancient mythical equivalent of today’s totalitarian dictators. Pramod’s ...