Friday 21 February 2014

“Bless You My Child” – Part 3

In the third of her four-part Partridge India Blog series, Nilu N Gavankar continues her fascinating account of her meeting with Mother Theresa. She describes the 15 minutes they sat together as being “almost like peaceful meditation time” for her.

“Bless You My Child” – Part 3
By Nilu N Gavankar

I was very surprised and did not know how to reply.

Do I say “Thank you mother?

Do I touch her feet like the Indian people do?”

I was baffled.

So she touched my head again and said,

“Bless you my child!”

I mumbled something like saying “Thank you.”

She turned to people in the crowd and blessed a few children. I was happy that I got to see her that close. I thought of making an exit.

As I was going to make a move, Mother Teresa turned around and touched my head again and said,

“Bless you my child.”

That blew me away totally.

Then she asked me to follow her to the prayer hall. (Is she kidding?). I followed her as she indicated.

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Thursday 20 February 2014

“Bless You My Child” – Part 4

Nilu N Gavanakar’s final installment of her Partridge India Blog series describes how Mother Theresa touched her head a total of 6 times in just 25 minutes. She say it was “too much for me to handle.”

The Partridge India Blog takes this opportunity to thank Nilu N Gavankar for contributing her fascinating encounter and being a part of the Partridge India author community.

“Bless You My Child” – Part 4
By Nilu N Gavankar

I exited the prayer hall following her. She stood in front of a black board. I noticed that the date on the board was 2 November 1996 with a caption “Meeting of All Souls Day.” Working in Mexico for 18 months before, I knew that meant to commemorate all the faithful departed.It was too much for me to handle, because she had already touched my head 5 times.

But that day I felt that Mother had touched my soul and I was alive.

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Wednesday 19 February 2014

My Experiences With Both Traditional and Self-Publishers

Partridge India Blog welcomes artist and published author, Amitabh Sengupta. He shares how his art and his book, Scroll Paintings of Bengal, have been inspired by his time living and working as an art teacher in Nigeria.

Sengupta decided to record his “theoretical search” for his art in a book. He tells us about his experiences with both traditional and self-publishing in India and the different results they have brought him.

My Experiences With Both Traditional and Self-Publishers

By Amitabh Sengupta

The genesis of self-publishing my book, Scroll Paintings of Bengal has certain events and outcomes that I would like to share.

Being a painter and teaching in universities in Nigeria between 1977 and 1988, my interest was naturally drawn to folk art, especially when I discovered the amazing range of African art forms. Seeing African Art on glossy plates of books or walking past the objects mounted on serene pedestals of European museums, did not have the same feeling.

With the gathering villagers, sound of drum and the fast-stepping dance of the Masquerades – art came alive in another context.

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“Bless You My Child” – Part 3

In the third of her four-part Partridge India Blog series, Nilu N Gavankar continues her fascinating account of her meeting with Mother Theresa. She describes the 15 minutes they sat together as being “almost like peaceful meditation time” for her.

“Bless You My Child” – Part 3
By Nilu N Gavankar

I was very surprised and did not know how to reply.

Do I say “Thank you mother?

Do I touch her feet like the Indian people do?”

I was baffled.

So she touched my head again and said,

“Bless you my child!”

I mumbled something like saying “Thank you.”

She turned to people in the crowd and blessed a few children. I was happy that I got to see her that close. I thought of making an exit.

As I was going to make a move, Mother Teresa turned around and touched my head again and said,

“Bless you my child.”

That blew me away totally.

Then she asked me to follow her to the prayer hall. (Is she kidding?). I followed her as she indicated.

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Posted By Unknown15:33

“Bless You My Child” – Part 2

The Partridge India Blog welcomes back multi-published author Nilu N Gavankar for the second in her four part series about her “magical moment” when she met Mother Theresa.

Today she tells Partridge India how providence and the generosity of others conspired to allow the meeting to take place.

“Bless You My Child” – Part 2
By Nilu N Gavankar

A lovely sister in white sari with blue border greeted me at the entrance door with a gentle and kind smile. She inquired extremely politely why I was visiting their organization.

I couldn’t hide my excitement. “Is mother here? Is there any way to have glimpses of her from distance. I do not have any appointment with her.”

“No. It is not possible right now. She is sleeping.” Recognizing the confused look on my face she continued, “Mother was up since 3 AM this morning because she had some international dignitaries visiting her. Lately she gets tired often and now she is resting. Sorry, I can not help you. Can you come tomorrow?”

“I am leaving Kolkata at 2:30 PM. I have to be at the airport by 1:30.”

The sister was very thoughtful, she said, “Mother prays in her prayer hall around 12. I can not promise you anything but People do come around that time and stand 50 ft away. You can stand with crowd and you may be able to see her for a few seconds, when she walks by to her prayer hall.”

How exciting!

I rushed back to the hotel and the manger taking interest in my story told me,“Though check out time for us is 12, you do not need to check out on time. Because it is so hot and humid, you may want to take a shower before you go to the airport. If you rush right after you see Mother, you will be able to make it to the airport on time.”

I sure was receiving kindness from people that day.

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Monday 17 February 2014

“Bless You My Child”

The Partridge India Blog’s guest author today, Nilu N Gavankar, is a multi-talented artist. Not only is has she published multiple book titles in India and in the US, she has also composed music for India’s thriving movie industry. She also loves to travel, having received degrees from both the the University of Bombay, the University of Wisconsin and Golden State University in San Francisco. Fittingly, it was her travels that led to the the “magical moment” she writes about in her four part series.

“Bless You My Child” By Nilu N Gavankar

In 1996, as soon as I accepted a short term assignment in China from the Construction Engineering company the one I always worked for, I knew that was the year for me to travel. After my assignment I took 2 months to travel all by myself in China all the way to Tibet. I realized that I had not explored my birth country India in the same fashion as I have been exploring the world over the years. Therefore when I left China, I detoured to India around end of September and named my journey“Discover India”.

I made a list of all the states I had not visited before and started serious traveling.

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Friday 14 February 2014

How I Became a Self-Published Author

Today’s Partridge India Blog’s guest author is Romesh Chopra. He has been involved in the performing arts for much of his life as an actor, writer, editor and critic. He published with AuthorHouse in 2012 and he talks about his reasons for choosing self-publishing, his experiences working with AuthorHouse and how becoming a published author even taught him how to use a computer and how to type. All in his 69th year.

How I Became a Self-Published Author
By Romesh Chopra

To be honest when I found no publisher ready to publish my novel, LOVE IS THE ULTIMATE WINNER, only then I decided to have a deal with AuthorHouse.

Some of the other publishing houses replied that they would let me know within 2 to 3 months, some did not care to reply at all. Of course there was this consolation that none outrightly rejected my work or considered it sub-standard and not worth publishing.

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Wednesday 12 February 2014

Challenges of a Successful Self-Published Author

The Partridge India Blog welcomes back multi award-winning author, Dr. Asim K. Dasgupta, for the second in his series about being a successful self-published author. Today he talks about the challenges you will face and defines the true meaning of success as a self-published author.

Challenges of a Successful Self-Published Author
By Dr. Asim K. Dasgupta

As a self-published author one has to overcome a number of hurdles.

Many say that the authors who have failed to publish a book through traditional ways go for the self-publishing route.

As a self-publisher we also have to sell most of our books through the internet and find it hard to get bookshops to stock our work.

Also books can be over priced. So if you are thinking of self-publishing keep a close eye on the price. And also remember that there are extra costs like postage and packaging.

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Tuesday 11 February 2014

Experiences of a Successful Self-Published Author

As Partridge India is a partnership between Penguin Books India and Author Solutions Inc., we have invited some of our successful self-published Indian authors to contribute guest articles to our blog. Thankfully they are more than happy to help guide and inspire India’s writers to share their stories with the world through self-publishing.

Partridge India Blog‘s very first guest author is Dr. Asim K. Dasgupta. His book Disasters was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Book of 2011 and more recently received an honourable mention at the 2012 London Book Fair.

In today’s article, Dr. Dasgupta explains how he came to choose the self-publishing route and his experiences working with another Author Solutions imprint, AuthorHouse. He will return tomorrow with the second part of his series, when he writes about the challenges facing self-published authors and how you can overcome them.

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Monday 3 February 2014

S.J.P. Thompson Envisions Sustainable World in New Book

Kanyakumari, India (PRWEB) January 26, 2014 In “Climate Change, Untold Truths and the Ultimate Solution: Also guides to end Poverty, Unemployment, Corruption, Crime, Terrorism, Pollution, Environmental Degradation and other evils” (published by Partridge India), author S.J.P. Thompson promotes the importance of sustainable living conditions. He explains how mankind lost it at all levels – families, communities, regions, countries and as the whole planet Earth and why humans failed to recognize it. In fact, through the truths he has observed and with his revolutionary ideas, he has created a new science based upon unsustainable living conditions (ULC) and deficits. It explains how ULC generates evils such as poverty, unemployment, crime, violence, terrorism, environmental degradation, pollution, etc. in a rationally predictable way and how all these interact to warm the earth and bring about climate change.

“Climate Change, Untold Truths and the Ultimate Solution” makes readers understand a series of conditions which “warned” humanity of their violation of sustainable limits and their foolish march towards harsher evils and entrapments. He lists a number of day-to-day happenings, experiences and difficulties which confirm that humans are leading a highly unsustainable situation. They failed to recognize danger signs because as “intelligent” race they had been adapting smoothly to the changing (worsening) situations with a variety of inventions, supportive gadgets and non-stop entertainments. These achievements even gave them a deceptively wonderful feel of victory over nature.

Latter chapters help the readers to derive at the most rational and scientific solution appropriate to the different regions. It is nothing but planning for sustainable families and economy based upon the severity of their ULC or deficits. Thompson explains how to gauge the severity of ULC and how the correction of it will end all the evils by reversing the way they evolved. Further the present day calamities such as Arab uprising, American shutdown, ungovernable situations in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Cairo, Athens and many other regions around the world, tragedies of Syria, unending Israel-Palestine conflict, dangerous migrations, etc. also will vanish into history. As a bonus this solution also saves the threatened millions of species from extinction, replenishes nature and brings mankind together as a global village.

Thompson writes passionately, “If the world diverts a fraction of the funds spent for the eradication of above evils to help the ignorant and illiterate masses of the world to understand the level of ULC and the importance of planning for sustainable families, dramatic changes will happen in front of us.”

“Climate Change, Untold Truths and the Ultimate Solution”
By S.J.P. Thompson
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 280 pages | ISBN 9781482813791
E-Book | 280 pages | ISBN 9781482813784
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

About the Author

S.J.P. Thompson graduated from Madras Medical College and post-graduated at Stanley Medical College. His professional and social life taught him the truths behind the good, the bad and the ugly happenings. Through the vast media he confirmed that the same truths, in magnified form, are behind the curses of modern humanity such as resisting poverty, unstoppable forest destruction, intractable pollution and others and hence climate change. Thompson has previously published “Give Yourself A Sane Happy World.”

Partridge India, a Penguin company, is a leading provider of book publishingmarketing, and bookselling services for authors in India, all priced appropriately for the Indian market. Committed to providing the highest level of customer service, Partridge India assigns each author personal publishing and marketing consultants who provide guidance throughout the process. Partridge India shares its headquarters with Penguin Books India in New Delhi. For more information or to publish a book, visit http://www.partridgepublishing.com/india or call 000.800.10062.62. For the latest, follow @PartridgeIndia on Twitter.

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Saturday 1 February 2014

New Book Sees ‘Perestroika Glasnost and Socialism’ from a New Perspective

Kerala, India (PRWEB) January 24, 2014 In his new book, “Perestroika Glasnost and Socialism” (published by Partridge India), K Vijayachandran presents a collection of twenty articles. The lead article, 'Reaction Strikes Europe,' was written on the eve of disintegration of Socialist Camp and collapse of USSR: Quoting documents and based on personal experiences while on professional training in socialist Czechoslovakia in early sixties, he explains how enterprises reforms, inspired by Khrushchev, weakened grass-root level democracy and led to the hegemony of a self-seeking intelligentsia over socialist society, its economy, government and even political system. These developments are then examined in the context of contemporary theories on ‘State and Knowledge Workers’, by Peter Drucker and others.

Bolsheviks, according to Vijayachandran, had looked at the liberation of a hundred big and small nationalities from Czarist oppression as a necessary corollary to socialism. He looks back to the unprecedented socialist experiment lasting over seven decades, and explores how these experiences – the establishment of a multinational socialist state encompassing a truly diverse multitude of peoples and its industrial and social development could be of relevance to a country like India. He suggests a genuinely federal government to replace the present highly centralized authoritarian one in Delhi.

Possibly, he considers this as the Indian road to socialism. “Perestroika Glasnost and Socialism” is an interesting search for alternative development models. It presents a refreshingly different world view that will command attention from politicians as well as academics. The book will be of interest to social scientists, management experts, and social activists.

“Perestroika Glasnost and Socialism”
By K Vijayachandran
Softcover | 5 x 8in | 218 pages | ISBN 9781482813531
e-book | 218 pages | ISBN 9781482813524
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

About the Author

The author is an engineering and management consultant based in Cochin and has trained in socialist Czechoslovakia as performance designer of power boilers. He was the coordinator for clean coal technology programs while leaving BHEL in 1980 due to divergent perceptions on technology development. He has served left governments of Kerala on three different occasions.

Partridge India, a Penguin company, is a leading provider of book publishingmarketing, and bookselling services for authors in India, all priced appropriately for the Indian market. Committed to providing the highest level of customer service, Partridge India assigns each author personal publishing and marketing consultants who provide guidance throughout the process. Partridge India shares its headquarters with Penguin Books India in New Delhi. For more information or to publish a book, visit http://www.partridgepublishing.com/india or call 000.800.10062.62. For the latest, follow @PartridgeIndia on Twitter.

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