This is the sequel and a prequel to Not a Sin to Love. I wrote it as a Bildungsroman of a mentally ill boy, Vivek. The story revolves around his mental health, addictions, love, romance and success against all odds. He marries a different girl in this book, Priya and many other flings are mentioned. He cheats on his wife with a coy of a woman who was plotted by a business rival, is, however, a social activist towards the end of this novel and it ends with a question, was it a dream, a hallucination under coma or reality.
The book is a self-help guide for people who wish to live their lives with higher ideals and release themselves from unhealthy thoughts to live a successful life.
Fully career oriented book for budding entrepreneurs to let them know how to go for a startup and how to scale up, it covers many major parts of business execution, for freshers who are looking for job, for working professionals who want to get their promotion or next appraisal, how to plan a career for students and motivations as well.
Destiny’s Dalliance reflects the situation of the urban Indian woman. The dilemma she faces whilst juxtaposing her innate values and the values of the society today. Samaira, the main protagonist, epitomizes this conflict. It is not that shes perfect, shes flawed in many ways, but one of her endearing qualities is that she tries to do the right thing. Her husband, Raghav, is the quintessential, chauvinistic male, who dominates and subjugates her in the guise of love. Samaira tolerates it all, accepting it as her fate. Shes extremely close to her two sons and she draws strength from this filial bond.But then, destiny has something else in store for Sam. Her first love, Neil, reappears in her life. Hes the complete antithesis of Raghav and its not long before Samaira realizes that she needs to make a very important decision, a decision whose ramifications would irrevocably change their lives.
1971, The Rebel, is a work of fiction. A student of Dhaka University, in the year 1971, enrolls himself in the struggle for liberation against the Fascist Pakistani Army rule in Bangladesh. He encounters action and later, he gets captured by the Pakistani army and is brutally tortured. Separated from his comrades, all he was left was to escape to India. Along with the brutality of war, the novel is packed with honor, glory and brotherhood that turn an academician into a freedom fighter for his motherland! If anyone is looking for a compact package with action, patriotism in par with the history of 1971, this is the book that is needed to be read.
Kolkata, 17 August 2018:Hamare Azadi ki Ladai, a book containing untold heroic stories of unsung and unknown freedom fighters who fought for India’s freedom, was released at Oxford Bookstore, today. The book authored by renowned historian Govind Prasad Srivastava was formally inaugurated by filmmaker Aniket Chattopadhyay, author-social-activist Sumitra Padmanabhan and journalist-author Ritwik Mukherjee.
The book Hamare Azadi ki Ladai is published by Power Publishers on the occasion of India’s 72nd Independence Day. The late author’s son Anand Srivastava who flew from London to attend the event of his father’s book launch, read out excerpts of the book that brought out untold facts about Jalianwallabad massacre. He said that the book tries to talk of many heroic stories of freedom struggle that most Indians are unaware of. There were many brave people who contributed to India’s struggle for freedom from British imperialism, whose contributions are undocumented and untold in any book before this. The book tries to bring forward these forgotten heroes and unknown stories of known heroes of India’s nationalist movement.
Journalist turned filmmaker Aniket Chattopadhyay spoke on the occasion of the release of the book, said history needs to be written from the neutral viewpoint. Most history that we read today are written from a biased viewpoint, that glorifies someone and shows someone else in unfavourable light. He gave the example, that if Gilani in Kashmir is labelled as a terrorist, then why Khudiram is labelled as a freedom fighter and not a terrorist?
Journalist Ritwik Mukherjee supported the viewpoint of Aniket Chattopadhyay and said that neutral history is the requirement of the day, so that the representation of history is unbiased and uncoloured.
Social activist and author Sumitra Padmanabhan said the book Hamare Azadi ki Ladai highlights untold events of the history of our freedom struggle.
Pinaki Ghosh, the co-founder of Power Publishers stressed that the struggle for independence does not end with the freedom of India from British imperialism. It is a continuous process and should be continued even today, so that women are free to move around anytime of the day, without worrying about their security; so that people feel free and safe to travel to any part of India without worrying of getting lynched as child-lifters because they look different; so that people of a community feel free to live in another state without the fear of being driven out of the stage.
Ghosh also discussed how Power Publishers has always supported 1st time authors giving them the freedom to become published authors, and how his company always supported freelancer writers, illustrators and filmmakers to quit their jobs and do something on their own; something they love doing. He called on stage many such freelancers who have quit their jobs and have now achieved their financial freedom as writers, illustrators, and filmmakers.
The event was moderated by Anupriya Dutta, the General Manager of Power Publishers. The book Hamare Azadi ki Ladai is available from all leading online and offline bookstores.
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Kolkata, 17 August 2018: Hamare Azadi ki Ladai, a book containing untold heroic stories of unsung and unknown freedom fighters who fought for India’s freedom, was released at Oxford Bookstore, today. The book authored by renowned historian Govind Prasad Srivastava was formally inaugurated by filmmaker Aniket Chattopadhyay, author-social-activist Sumitra Padmanabhan and journalist-author Ritwik Mukherjee.