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WAKE UP, INDIA! ESSAYS FOR OUR TIMES by Drs Koshy A.V. and Bina Biswas

WAKE UP, INDIA! ESSAYS FOR OUR TIMES by Drs Koshy A.V. and Bina Biswas

When a Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry with six or seven books to his credit and a writer whose translations of an Urdu poet have been nominated for a Nobel who also has six or seven books to her credit get together and bring out a compilation of their essays on India in a post modern minimalist aporia ridden effor what will the result be? A delectable potpourri, a Cortazarian hopscotch, collage, montage, bricolage, an assemblage of fragments 'shored against ruins' that is poetic in pieces, literary at times, critcial, theoretical and surface centred at others and sketchy at places, definitely. Will this book be banned, burned, be controversial or silenced and marginalized for questioning concepts like nation and caste and religions, questioning Gandhi, criticizing Indian governance, politics, politicians and polity, exposing fault lines and espousing indirectly a non Marxist revolution without stating if it should be violent or not, looking at the past and leaders and Pak-Indian relations etc.; in a totally original way, while mixing high and low culture? One thing is certain, this book is dynamic and challenges the reader to let go of his safe assumptions and begin thinking for himself or herself and enter areas of thought that he or she may find highly disturbing so that he or she may even turn against the book but will be forced to acknowledge its ability to work as a pulley and lever to bring movement and activism towards the process of nation building. Hate it or love it, curse it or praise it, criticize it for its glaring flaws, inconsistencies, inaccuracies, weaknesses and mistakes or laud it and give it awards and accolades for its equally amazing strengths- this book is going to make waves. All we its authors can say of it is : Watch out for it, get hold of a copy when it comes out soon, read it, discuss it angrily and loudly and vehemently and then go out and do something, anything, about the issues it raises in a very brief and tantalizing manner.
with Mahip Chadha YsBooks Intl Bina Biswas

About our new upcoming book Wake Up, India! Essays for our Times by Dr Koshy A.V and Dr Bina Biswas

1. HAMARA INDIA MAHAAN
   Our upcoming book Wake Up, India! Essays for Our Times by me and Dr Bina Biswas wrestles with the idea of what India really is. While all of us respect India's past as Bharath do we have to accept the Hindutva version of it as the only true one? Don't many of us find that we belong more in the India that came into being on August 1947, 12 p.m.? And are we not looking forward to an India that is not just politically able to choose its own government, where one is physically (seemingly) free, but to greater freedoms fulfilling all that is promised in the constitution and potentially ours but not ours yet. The book is a pointer and a signboard to awaken your thoughts on the participatory process of nation building where all of us can have our own dreams and visions and bring them into being as a billion and more torch bearers, to make India truly 'mahaan' in the 21st century as others too, like Kalam, have envisioned. This incomplete in the best sense of the word book - as all such books must be - going to be brought out by Mahip Chadha of YsBooks Intl will be a must read for all who are genuinely interested in joining in the ongoing process of nation building and thoughts on the same as well as discussion and action on it. We and our people are great and in these days when the whole world is going to become one we have to move beyond what our petty leaders have had to offer to us so far to a larger bigger wider group vision and this book will act as the lynch-pin for such a discussion, going beyond even the beginnings set by stalwarts like Kejriwal, in its concise seed-like brevity. It sows ideas as seeds. It is a book for the people, of the people and written by two of India's people. When we sow good ideas of equality, justice and progress or make people aware of them it is not always necessary that the ones who introduce the ideas need be the ones who carry them out; sometimes they need not even be thanked if the fruit is of use to many people. We hope this book alters many perceptions and starts off movements that makes things better for our nation in leaps and bounds in the coming century.

   Mahip Chadha, our publisher, says about our new soon to come out book Wake Up, India: Personally, I realise its worth and was keen that it should be published before the elections so that the readers get an insight into Indian politics and the lethargy which grips our populace! Nevertheless there is no harm in trying- after all we know that = if wishes were horses,beggars would ride-consider me a beggar !You guys and gals are going to love this piece of artistry woven by two literate doctors!
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Wake Up, India - Essays for our Times by Drs A.V. Koshy and Bina Biswas - the contents list!

One of the most interesting and controversial books on India going to come out in the near future, partly a compilation, written in two minimalist and aporia ridden enjoyably populist styles, will be the one by me and Dr Bina Biswas called Wake Up, India: Essays for our Times that is soon going to be published by YsBooks Intl /Mahip Chadha

The contents list below will give you an idea why!

Contents

Auuthor’s Preface by Koshy A.V.

Acknowledgements

PART ONE
The Road to Shangri La
by Koshy A.V.

Chapter 1: A Few Thoughts on Reservation.
Chapter 2: Ideology -1
Chapter 3: Ideology -2
Chapter 4: Ideology -3
Chapter 5: Poverty and Class - 1
Chapter 6: Poverty and Class - 2
Chapter 7: Population and Land - 1
Chapter 8: Population and Land - 2
Chapter 9: A Bridge Piece
Chapter 10: Politics and the Populace -1
Chapter 11: Politics and the Populace -2
Chapter 12: Was Gandhi a Mahatma? The heads side of the coin.
Chapter 13: Was Gandhi a Mahatma? The tails side of the coin.
Chapter 14: Corruption, Common Sense and the Common Man – 1
Chapter 15: Corruption, Common Sense and the Common Man - 2
Chapter 16: Debt, the Common Man, Black Money and White Money.
Chapter 17: More Horrors and Grand Narratives.
Chapter 18: Return to Analysis.
Chapter 19: Inflation.
Chapter 20: The Specially Gifted and Shangri La.
Chapter 21: Shangri La – The Dream of the First Autism Village in India.
Chapter 22: A BRIDGE TO PART TWO: LIVING MODERNITY

PART TWO
Corrective Seeds
by Bina Biswas/Koshy A.V.

Chapter 23 : The Irom Lady
Chapter 24: ‘Freedom from fear’ Aung San Suu Kyi’s story
Chapter 25 The Maker of India – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Chapter 26 Is Arvind Kejriwal an Aam Aadmi?
Chapter 29 FDI
Chapter 28 The First War of Indian Independence 1857 – The Lesson To Be Learnt
Chapter 29 Bio –diversity : A New Challenge For The Youth
Chapter 30 E-waste and the Question of Livelihood in the Third World
Chapter 31 “Look at the Darkness, giving birth to the Sun” - Gujarat.
Chapter 32 Is HONESTY a far cry in today’s world?
Chapter 33 Tagore – The Poet Educator
Chapter 34 The Desolate Indian Youth - A Story of Expunction
Chapter 35 The Youth of India and Their Future

Addendum:
Chapter 36. On post-colonialisms by a non- post colonial by Koshy A.V.