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This book is aimed at making an comparative study of the relationship between religion and politics. It incorporates in its ambit a study of religion and politics in modern liberal democracies of Japan and India, the problem of secularism, religious and political intertwining in the historical perspective of western vis-?-vis Japanese and Indian experiences. It specifically studies the evolution of Soka Gakkai in Japan and its counterpart, the Rashtriya ...
The novel Seducing Pain is woven around the story of an idealist and sensitive civil servant, suffering from the guilt of his participation in the system generating and perpetuating depravation, miseries, suffering and utter helplessness all around. His efforts to extricate himself from the quagmire – his breast beating, whining, self-flagellation, his ill-fated impotent rebellion against the system, seeking succour in his God, escapism, drunken orgies, ...
This novel is about the success and failure of the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. It deals with the predicaments of the early years of Indian independence and concerns itself with the moral and political problems of the era. It sheds light on many dark corners of India's recent past. Recounting the pogrom of Muslims in Delhi in September 1947, the novel shows that Indian communalism was not the result of British policy of divide and rule. ...
This novel, first in the trilogy 'Laughter In A cage', 'Man Who Stole rainbow' and 'Woman Who Sold Tears' evaluating freedom, justice and commonweal in British and Independent India through the depiction of life in Amritsar and Delhi from Jalianwala Bagh firing in 1919 to Operation Blue Star in 1984, covers the period up to partition. This novel Shows how the wrong policies propagated by Indian leaders before and immediately after First World War unleashed ...