Mulla Nasruddin is a common folk hero in the Near East, Middle East and Turkey. He is a Seljuk satirical Sufi figure,... More > sometimes believed to have lived around 13th century. His inspired tomfoolery is tempered with wisdom and in the present work his anecdotes serve the same purpose as the fables of the Greek slave. The Greek storyteller adopted fables as a mode to teach lessons in prudence and moral values. Mulla Nasruddin served his life, as a living proof that a life stripped of superfluities can be both inspiring and lively.
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The theme of Love Death in human existence is the stuff for romantic literature. But among cyborgs? The Ring of Fate is the... More > fantastic tale of a love gone sour and yet cyborgs have to deal with it just as human kind would. Askold the slayer has become a cyborg and he must deal with his past as a cyborg. But fate intervenes in the tangled weave of the Chief Silver Bolt and the fatally beautiful Magda. With awesome capacity of cyborgs to move through so many dimensions the nature of Love and Death shifts as well. < Less

This book is a result of the author's life-long search for meaning to life. Life according to him gives everyone a ringside... More > view.
"What is Life?
It's easier to live than to explain."
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Aesop was 12 when he entered into the household of Iadmon. Though misshapen and ugly his intelligence endeared him to... More > all.
He became famous as the teller of animal stories.

Very little is known of his actual life. This book is a fictional biography. He lived in a period very similar to ours. There were larger forces at work,- a clash of two world civilizations was inevitable.

The story is told in a series of episodes tracing his early years, fame and his disgrace. He is a symbol for every man.

The book is illustrated by the author.
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A fictional biography of Aesop, who is credited as the father of a literary genre of fables.
We follow his life in a series... More > of short episodes that recall the original fables.
Illustrated by the author. < Less

"Where do we come from? Are we here with an in- built blueprint of sorts that dictates certain conduct in relation to... More > others?
Does our success or failure hang upon our lives, of what we accumulate in material terms or in terms of ways and means we set out for others to follow?
Are wars natural to mankind? If wars were fought between nations or tribes to balance some perceived injustice how come we still have wars
in our midst?
If religions are natural to us how we have caused so much bad blood between all?"
If you have asked yourselves these questions this book shall be of interest to you. I have asked myself these and I have reached my own conclusion, which I have set out in 364 short essays. These loosely follow a pattern with some breaks where I have provided some anecdotes or personal glimpses. < Less

This book of anecdotes gives the reader an intimate look at the famous and not so famous in their unguarded moments:
*Mme de... More > Staël interrupts Napoleon in his bath on the excuse, ‘Genius has no sex.’
*The formidable Dr. Johnson bares his prejudices and his life-long regret for being a bad son.
*Picasso reveals his ‘fake’ while Whistler makes himself a living canvas.
*Verdi makes his curse take effect on the parish priest who insulted him when he was an altar boy.
There are many such little known facts that make history come alive and these are set down in two volumes.
33 illustrations.
Anecdotes about 137 personalities. < Less

“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of the great men” so wrote Carlyle. The... More > second book of the Representational Man carries more anecdotes of great men whose personal lives made a history of sorts- a sideshow to the onward passage of mankind. Anecdotes of Einstein, Darwin, Voltaire, MK Gandhi, Wilde and Freud for example bring the larger movement of ideas into focus and on a personal level. < Less

Muckle is a waterspirit. Wherever he goes trouble follows. One morning he sets out to clean up his valley.... Picture book.... More > Age group 4 years and above. Text and illustrations by Benny Thomas Lay-out by Emma Thomas < Less

A fairy tale about Giant Peerless who lives far, far north and has a secret garden. There he has a magical rosebush. He goes... More > on a journey... The book is illustrated by the author. < Less