Amit's heartbeat stopped for a while. Who was knocking at the door near the balcony? Probably that Mackenzie had come to kill him. Amit met his severest misfortune when he had gone to holidaying at the lap of the hills of North Bengal. Could he defend the ruthless murderer, or will he fall victim to him? Mariam replaces the receiver and slowly moves to the kitchen. She shuts down the gas and moves toward the living room, where the television is kept. What is the news that resurfaces the submerged wound of a middle-aged lady? Is this news really going to ...

India launched an unmanned orbiting to Mars in November 2013. Once the project got the approval of the government, it was readied in the shortest possible time and launched. So far it has been successful. If it succeeds in reaching Mars in September 2014, it will be the first Asian country to have been successful in the very first attempt itself. The flight has attracted worldwide interest, judging from the number of international correspondents who were present at Sriharikota for the launch. Called the Mars Orbiting Mission, or just MOM affectionately, it ...

The book is about eight fired-up young Indian men and women. Their vision of excellence, coupled with their creativity, persistence, and indomitable spirit, helps them emerge as unique individuals. They overcome obstacles in their path, including their own mental blocks. They come from diverse backgrounds, representative of the diversity of contemporary India. One of them is a domestic servant, another is from a lower middle-class family, the third belongs to the family of an academician, the fourth comes from an extremely orthodox Brahmin family, the fifth ...

This novel treats the two themes of incurable diseases and euthanasia at various levels to bring into focus a web of dense arguments legal and medical woven together that never tire the readers in their attempts to grapple with issues of human suffering, disease and death and its over-arching subject of sympathy, pity and humanity. To lend credence to all the impressive arguments, the novel draws parallels from real life situations and cases that made possible a debate on physician-assisted suicides and importance of human dignity and right to life and death.

Spirituality is not antagonistic to science. In fact, the world, and mankind in particular, need both science and spirituality for its progress in the right direction. The modern world has relegated spirituality, knowingly or unknowingly, and is experiencing repercussions of this fault. The recent revolution in information and other kinds of technology has brought the world at our doorsteps, but not without ill effects. Mankind was never as vulnerable, as susceptible, to vices as is now. There is no remedy other than to re-enthuse and bring back new generations ...