Badal Verma
Badal Verma is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune. An infantry veteran, he grew up with the best of humans in the lap of nature and drew strength from them to face the challenges of life with grace and honour. He lives in Jaipur with the memories of his beautiful wife.Read More...
Fractured Solitude
Books by Badal Verma
The Fractured Solitude unfolds on top of a road protection concrete barrier, where a young woman teeters on the edge, contemplating suicide. Just in a nick of time, an old Army Veteran intervenes, preventing her leap. This sets the stage for a collision of two profoundly different worlds, encompassing contrasting socio-economic classes, backgrounds, and lifestyles; as well as similar circumstances, beliefs, and perspectives. Despite these disparities, this une
Fractured Solitude
Books by Badal Verma
The Fractured Solitude unfolds on top of a road protection concrete barrier, where a young woman teeters on the edge, contemplating suicide. Just in a nick of time, an old Army Veteran intervenes, preventing her leap. This sets the stage for a collision of two profoundly different worlds, encompassing contrasting socio-economic classes, backgrounds, and lifestyles; as well as similar circumstances, beliefs, and perspectives. Despite these disparities, this une
The Loves Loved and The Lives Lived
Books by Badal Verma
The Loves Loved & The Lives Lived is a gutting account of Anant’s coming to terms with Anshika’s death and coming into his own as a man of honour. An honest and detailed account of grief over time, studded with moments of hope, beauty, and clear-eyed observations of many flavours of life suffuse this story of love, loss, growth, and man-woman relationship with a conscious frankness. The author challenges the status quo and yet upholds the sanctity of relig
Souls in Love... Madly. Truly.
Books by Badal Verma
Souls in Love... Madly. Truly. is a love story that transcends time. The book is premised on the imagination that everything is connected, and everything that once lived lives on forever in the eternity of time. The spinning wheel turns, round and round in a circle. One fate is tied to the next. The thread, red like blood, cleaves together all our deeds. One cannot unravel the knots, but they can be severed. Someone severed the knot of the protagonists with a
Smoth... A Nimbus Cloud of Unknowing
Books by Badal Verma
Smoth… A Nimbus Cloud of Unknowing is a collection of interrelated short stories. They are focused on the stories of women, who make our lives beautiful and so often leave us in the end to change the entire paradigm of those very lives which they had once decorated.
The narrative is an insightful interplay of thoughts and complex emotions between the protagonist and three imaginary young women who are the subtle characters of his Atarangee Antarman,
Serendipity of Soldiering
Books by BADAL VERMA
Soldiering is a timeless idea and Serendipity takes us through the process that differentiates us from ourselves and where the training and touch of nature transform boys from city streets into men, Men of Honour. It peeps into a sacred zone of soldiering which is a space of pure action and where the power of mind plays the dangerous games. This is the celebration of unsung soldiers who are the best, the brightest, and famous in the heart of soldiering, but no
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