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Every person, at some time or the other, at a certain point of life, faces this question: What is the bare truth? Truth, one comes to understand, is not a simple antonym of falsehood, yet it is! Truth is a many faceted diamond, and like diamonds, it is very rare. Yet Truth is all pervading and the facets are rarely seen in the brilliance of the gem. These poems on ‘The Bare Truth’ by the author which together from this book, have been written between the age ...
The book seeks to present a brief introduction to the Vedas from the point of view of the common man. People of India are generally aware of the existence of the Vedas and regard them with veneration, but only few of them may have had an occasion to see them, much less read them. This book tries to tell them in brief and in a simple language as to what the Vedas contain and what they do not. It throws light on the various aspects of the Vedas-their authorship, ...
This book concentrates on the problems of combining socialism with nationalist revolution in India. Emergence of the Congress Socialist Party in 1934 within the Congress for institutionalizing socialism problems. The parallel running streams of socialism and nationalism, full of insinuations for each other uptill now, were sought to be combined by an effort to replace the traditional and slow pace Gandhian strategy by the Marxian technique; thus seeking the ...
In this age of violence, resurgence of medieval fundamentalism and onslaught of market forces, The Native Bird, an anthology of poems, by Basanta Kumar Kar opens the windows to the nature, to the realms of sensitivities and soft emotions. Keshav malik, former Editor, Indian Literature comments thus: ?Mr Basanta Kumar Kar is a prolific poet. During my last meeting he was kind enough to inform me that he had penned poems numbering a couple of thousands, ...
Mannu Bhandari's writing disproves the myth that acceptance of a literary work by a wider readership is necessarily at the cost of its artistic qualities. Hailed by the most exacting and factitious critics as a monumental work on the theme of a child?s alienation from his parents and environment, Mannu Bhandari?s Bunty has already run into several editions and is still one of the ten bestsellers in Hindi. One of the best novels written in the ...
In this collection of short stories translated from original Hindi into English entitled Mother's Diary, Rajee Seth is poised to open up a very startling and powerful genre of Indian writing. Her sharp insights into the human psyche and the sensitive etching of human frailty offer a sum of experience which is beyond any time, space, country or culture. Devoid of dexterous plots and complex craft, her work is ostensibly a gentle revelation of human behaviour ...
With the growth of administrative process in all welfare states, the citizens' problem of getting quick and efficient decisions on matters affecting their economic life presented a new phenomena of administrative justice. The classical rule of law gave into the concept of administrative tribunals to administer justice on specialised fields. French model of droit administrative with its success story became the basis of the new innovation of administrative ...