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‘The Unlit Lamps’ is a historical fiction focusing on a tragic incident that happened during the reign of Tipu Sultan. The incident happened when the prominent ministers belonging to the Vaishnavite community of ‘Mandyam Iyengars’ conspired with the British to overthrow Tipu Sultan and restore the kingdom of Mysore State to Hindu kings. Exposure of the conspiracy before it could be hatched invited the ire of the king and a massacre of m
‘The Unlit Lamps’ is a historical fiction focusing on a tragic incident that happened during the reign of Tipu Sultan. The incident happened when the prominent ministers belonging to the Vaishnavite community of ‘Mandyam Iyengars’ conspired with the British to overthrow Tipu Sultan and restore the kingdom of Mysore State to Hindu kings. Exposure of the conspiracy before it could be hatched invited the ire of the king and a massacre of many civilians of the community along with the ministers on the first day of Diwali resulted in the cultural practice of not lighting the lamps on the first day of the festival; a practice continuing from over two hundred years. The boo traces the roots of the community established by the saint Sri Ramanujacharya at Melkote, the conspiracy and the victimization. The sane voices of the commoners who witnessed these historical events are the main characters of the book.
This novel The Coffee Track is based on the researches into the authors own ‘roots’, based on a few leads that extended back about 150 years. This novel was first published by Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co., USA and this is the re-edited Indian edition.
The narrative is about an orthodox Brahmin family that originated from a place where coffee is grown on mountain slopes. Although deeply rooted in tradition and Vedic culture, this family is
This novel The Coffee Track is based on the researches into the authors own ‘roots’, based on a few leads that extended back about 150 years. This novel was first published by Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co., USA and this is the re-edited Indian edition.
The narrative is about an orthodox Brahmin family that originated from a place where coffee is grown on mountain slopes. Although deeply rooted in tradition and Vedic culture, this family is swept by the historical and social changes that were inevitable with the passage of time. The old traditions undergo modifications, adopt new values and expand the meaning of old values with each generation.
The novel reconstructs the old Vedic times and culture in a rural set up, typically Indian, with its predominant caste system with little scope for rationalism. Professions get segregated along with castes and philosophy alone gets documented as knowledge and interestingly science is practised by the illiterates. A parallel is drawn between the progress of science in the west and the prevalence of superstitions in India of that period.
A tragic epidemic uproots the family from its original village and brings them to the urban surroundings. Encompassing five generations, the novel traces the impact of Vedic culture, British education, freedom struggle of Gandhi and the migration of post independent youth to the west. The family absorbs and adapts to the social changes and manages to retain the cherished family values that are both humane and universal.
None can remain untouched by history and progressive social changes. This novel traces the change from theism to rationalism, from philosophy to science, from east to west and from rigid caste systems to a more rational society.
A bold and righteous girl born to enjoy life on her terms, Aranye has no qualms about throwing society’s norms to the winds.
When her carefree existence is rocked by the turbulence of a broken heart, she turns to her career in science and her mentor Pavan to anchor her.
However Pavan’s loneliness pulls her in and the mystery of his shrouded past deepens the allure for her.
And what started as friendship becomes something much, much more.
A bold and righteous girl born to enjoy life on her terms, Aranye has no qualms about throwing society’s norms to the winds.
When her carefree existence is rocked by the turbulence of a broken heart, she turns to her career in science and her mentor Pavan to anchor her.
However Pavan’s loneliness pulls her in and the mystery of his shrouded past deepens the allure for her.
And what started as friendship becomes something much, much more.
Few years later, Aranye is getting married but fate .....'
Fate however, steps in. And an earthquake and a tragedy snaps her back to her destiny.
Where friendships move beyond the accepted norms and relationships are shrouded in secrecy, everyone has two worlds.
One visible and the other personal.
But which one is real?
And how far will she have to go to find out?
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