Islam

[close] Islam, the religion of peace and reconciliation, as taught and practiced by the Prophet, comes alive in this book, preserving the pearl of truth from the heart of Qur'an and Prophet. Adeptly researched facts, free from the rust of lies and distortions are a fresh challenge to the reader; to discover lies about truth, if not truth blackened by lies.

The message of his prophetic vision delineates the agony and ecstasy of his passion, which made him not only the Messenger of God, but the lover of the beloved.

Many books have been written about the Prophet of Islam, but none so candid as to explore his spiritual heart filled with the light of love, compassion and understanding. The example of his life, as lived in loving-kindness and in perfect harmony with nature and mankind, are the living emblem of his message in this book. Prophet Muhammad: The First Sufi of Islam strives to fill a gap within the historic arena of Islam by touching the fabric of Prophet’s life as a family man, a loving father and husband. [close]

[close] What happens when an irritating but lovable wise-cracking 'Stranger' meets a frustrated and arrogant teenager on a fateful day in a congested room at the metro station? Catastrophe!!!
Meanwhile, Pathan never had the pleasure of happiness in his life yet he thanked Allah for every second of it...
Abandoned by fate and friends, surrounded by responsibilities and poverty... This hard-coated man from the city of Delhi knew only thing and that was to keep faith in Allah... Now he is set on a journey to turn around his fate...

The tale from the Iyer's past will change Pathan's present and Jai's future... And trust me...
Sometimes all it takes is a stranger's tale to change the track of your life...

Three Men... One fateful day... and a Story of a Lifetime...

The Stranger is coming this May... are you ready to receive him? ;)

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When Strangers meet.. is K. Hari Kumar's first novel and is being published Srishti publishers and distributors. [close]

[close] Experimental, post-modern, philosophical, satirical, dystopian fiction.

Catena recounts the open-ended odyssey of a modern antihero adrift at sea.

Born into the cultural fragmentation of diaspora and a world citizen by default, the protagonist, named simply Dog, roams the globe in a Sisyphean quest for home, unable to claim allegiance to either creed or flag.

Erudite, sharp-witted, and street-smart, Dog marshals the survivor’s tenacity in his attempt to distill a legacy of victimization into a cogent, dynamic identity marked by the creative impulse, and, ultimately, a life-affirming ethos borne of the liberation from the self and the other alike.

The first epistle of the Journey to Virginland trilogy, Catena is Dog’s maiden foray into his ancestral country, where women are perennially struck by virginhood, men remain churlishly Neanderthaline, and a resplendent culture is held hostage by the twin hydras of chauvinism and corruption. It is here, in his self-referential heartland, that a disillusioned and ostracized Dog will be propelled into a consummate search for meaning.

The ensuing journey unfolds as a fluid, cinematic tapestry of emotion and experience, seemingly rudderless yet tightly interconnected, with the narrative woven together by the protagonist’s biting observations on sex, politics, history, religion, and philosophy.

Closely reflecting Dog’s splintered world, which is a consequence of empire in naked brutality marketed as progress, or as the exigencies of civilization, Catena is a conscious subversion of the form and structure of the modern novel. Melikian rejects the very nature of the conventional novel, viewing it as emblematic of the rational structures, cohesiveness, and verticality of centers of power, of the ongoing project of imperialism.

What emerges from Catena is the irreverent, often bawdy, and intensely moving tale of a stateless outsider which dispenses linearity in favor of fresh air, and a freedom of seeing which hints, with every turn, at a higher sense of humanism. [close]