I have been reading some excellent writings by you. Consider sending me such some pieces in Hindi for the Vishva-Vivek. Regards, BhuDev (On #14) I’ve wanted to say this for a long time. Since you write so well, I am surprised that you don’t enter the Toastmasters International Speech Contest more often and win!! Maybe I could help you convert some of your writings into inspirational speeches! Let me know if interested! Narayanan (On #19) It seems you have knack of praising everything Americana by putting Hinduism down. Nobody can miss this bias in your articles. Have you heard about samagams and they were what conventions were sans frills. Wish you could make your point without getting into unnecessary diversion. Rahul (On #28) This is, by far, the best of your recent articles! Anand Bhatia (On # 38) Your articles are thought - provoking. Sometimes, I read them twice or thrice to grasp the deeper ideas embedded. You have a natural talent to express the ideas and feelings. Soori (On #60) You have had a very eventful life indeed, coming in company with people of unusual talents. In contrast, I knowingly drifted away from success in search of what I thought was truth. I did find it. But I have been going into hardship intentionally and rejected the material world. Subhash (On #76)

A STRIKING NEW CONCEPT!

Here's a peep-show compendium of personal poems with a pulsing, provocative pace. Each one is linked to events of its time, along with a look at what lured it to life.

Author Walt McConville lets down his hair (the little he has left) and gives you a candid contemplation of a life lived to the limit.

With seven books, three musicals, two plays, and over 500 poems, short stories, travel and technical items to his credit, Walt's way with words will warm you within!

This is the true story of Charles Hayes, a man who, from the time he was a school-boy essay-winner in England, set out to become a writer and news broadcaster. A lifetime of adventure led him, as a young articled clerk in a London lawyer's office, to WW2, when he became an Infantry Officer in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. After his experiences in Burma, he was sent in 1946 to Simla in the Himalayas where, a year later, he was present at the partition of Pakistan and India.

On his release from the army, he boarded a ship in India bound for England with his wife and two young children. After a four-day stop-over on the East African coast they decided to go no further. He accepted a post as District Officer in Kenya, a country which he was destined to enjoy for the next 35 years.

With a 'golden' voice, he was the perfect 'stringer' for BBC - the British Broadcasting Service for Foreign News, sending daily reports to the world and was an avid news writer for several English and South African newspapers. He also used his voice, and his love of acting, to star in many theatrical productions and films shot in Kenya.

By the early 1950s, as Mau Mau (The War of Liberation) threatened Kenya, Hayes was instrumental in starting the first Kishwahili newspaper and, as Editing Director, soon developed the Standard Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd. , publishing daily and Sunday newspapers in the English Language. In the early 1960s, His Highness, the Aga Khan, bought shares in the company which now has the largest newspaper coverage in East Africa.

On his retirement in 19890, Hayes immigrated to British Columbia, Canada, with his third wife and young daughter, to start a small-town weekly newspaper, The South Okanagan Review, which was published for 15 years.

Between 1996 and his death in April 2000, at the age of 85, Hayes wrote a book on Kenya and 3 books on British Columbian pioneers.

This Love Letter as a Biography captures the spirit of the Indian and African adventures and experiences of a remarkable gentleman, Charles Hayes.

These essays, brief discourses and editorials represent writings that are both academic and professional. The author, Charles E. Miller, explores subjects he investigated while attending graduate school at Stanford University.

Miller’s commentaries also appeared in the small theatre guide, THE CRITICS' REVIEW, published in the early 1950s in San Francisco. He lays no claim to having invented a philosophy of literary criticism. Yet his insights display a sharp, critical mind combined with an engaging literary style.

The collection includes dozens of essays and commentaries, such as:

• • Goddess, Witch or Mortal – Thomas Hardy’s Eustacia
• • God-Man or Tragic Hero in Drama
• • A Short Story Defined
• • The Basic Elements of a Drama
• • An Analysis of Suffering in Oscar Wilde’s Salome
• • On Propaganda Drama and Euripides’ Medea
• • A Note on Current Existentialism
• • Critique on Two Plays by August Strindberg
• • And many more!

Delve into the motivations behind some of the greatest authors the world has ever known and what motivated their characters in The Whitney Papers: Literaru Essays=Brief and Long.

These essays, brief discourses and editorials represent writings that are both academic and professional. The author, Charles E. Miller, explores subjects he investigated while attending graduate school at Stanford University.

Miller’s commentaries also appeared in the small theatre guide, THE CRITICS' REVIEW, published in the early 1950s in San Francisco. He lays no claim to having invented a philosophy of literary criticism. Yet his insights display a sharp, critical mind combined with an engaging literary style.

The collection includes dozens of essays and commentaries, such as:

• • Goddess, Witch or Mortal – Thomas Hardy’s Eustacia
• • God-Man or Tragic Hero in Drama
• • A Short Story Defined
• • The Basic Elements of a Drama
• • An Analysis of Suffering in Oscar Wilde’s Salome
• • On Propaganda Drama and Euripides’ Medea
• • A Note on Current Existentialism
• • Critique on Two Plays by August Strindberg
• • And many more!

Delve into the motivations behind some of the greatest authors the world has ever known and what motivated their characters in The Whitney Papers: Literaru Essays=Brief and Long.

Lin Shu as a Chinese translator, though initiating Chinese translation undertakings in the period of late Qing and early Republic in China, has been a very controversial figure owing to his conservative political attitude and his unusual translation approach. In this new book, Dr Wanlong Gao re-evaluate Lin Shu’s translation from a cultural perspective and confirm his great contribution to Chinese translation.

Andrew Dys is a longtime reporter and columnist at The Herald, the daily newspaper serving York, Chester, and Lancaster counties in Upstate South Carolina. His hard-knuckled writing covering regular people who do extraordinary things has garnered awards from press associations and other organizations in both Carolinas.

He is known for driving an 1986 Mercury Cougar with more than 230,000 miles on it, devotion to vices including drinking coffee all day, and wears on his sleeve an equal dislike of house pets and bigots. No one can carve off unique perspectives of the life like Herald columnist Andrew Dys.

His insightful, amusing, and sometimes bemusing looks at himself and others are both delicious and devious.

His wordly recipes, the ingredients of our daily existence, beg for a healthier dollop of irreverence or reverence than would normally suit most tastes. “Slice of Dys” is an all-the-way to-go order with double meat and that special sauciness that only Andrew Dys can cook up.

It’s a high calorie, carb-loaded feast of fun and frailty that’s fine food for thought.

It has been said that adversity is like a good master or disciplinarian. We have all known or may one day know extreme stress be it career, family, monetary or living status. The end of concerns for each human being is limitless, staggering and full of challenging experiences. There are many astute, wise people who give expert advice but it is short lived if there is only room for criticism. On the other hand, to fall into the good graces of an inspiring individual can help us deal with trouble or hardship.

It is my hope that what has been written might somehow touch the life of every reader with the knowledge that growth can come through difficulty. The illustrations, created by Max Parker, represent my personal interpretations as they apply to experiences in the physical sense and emotional realm. Ultimately we can rest assured that even in the most daring situations "Life is Worth Living."

By the late 1930s Warsaw, Poland, was a vibrant city. It was home to a bustling business community and its historic promenade and outdoor cafŽs catered to the city's community of artists, writers, and intellectuals. It was a magnificent place to live and visit.

On 1 September 1939, the day the Nazis invaded Poland, that all changed--particularly for the Jewish population. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, Poland was home to the largest Jewish population in Europe. It is believed that prior to the war that more than three million Jews lived in Poland. It is thought that perhaps fewer than four hundred thousand survived the war.

In September 1939, George Rynecki was a Jew living in Poland. He was a new father and just starting his business. The life he had planned was suddenly and radically altered. Instead of focusing on his family and nascent business, he found himself scrambling to outsmart the Nazis and provide for his family. With a combination of courage, wits, luck, and bribery he survived the Holocaust.

Unfortunately, George's father, Moshe Rynecki, was not so lucky. Moshe, an artist who lived in Warsaw, refused to leave the city. While George was unable to save his father from deportation to the Majdanek concentration camp, at the end of the Holocaust he was able to retrieve many of his father's paintings. Moshe's paintings, which are realistic depictions of Eastern European Jewry, were obviously personally important to George, but are also of historic importance; they portray a people, a culture, and a community that was almost completely annihilated by the Nazis.

This memoir, read in tandem with viewing Moshe Rynecki's paintings, provides a more complete picture of the Eastern European Jewish community, and the Rynecki family in particular.

If you are interested in this book, you might also be interested in Jewish Life in Poland: The Art of Moshe Rynecki (1881-1943).

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The Brontës of Haworth: Yorkshire's Literary Giants - Their Lives, Works, Influences and Inspirations has been designed by a retired teacher of English as a general, overall guide and reference for use by highschool teachers, college and university professors, students and Brontë enthusiasts

The functional layout of the book in three parts allows readers and researchers to obtain a quick, thumbnail sketch of the lives of each of the Brontës, each of their seven major adult works, and the various influence and inspirations which affected their short, tragic lives and led them into careers in writing.

Each chapter in each section has been designed so that the brief background sketches of their lives and works can be read as an entity in itself, and from there, readers can choose which area they would like to pursue further through additional studies and research. The amount of research material on the Brontës is overwhelming, and it was the author's intention to briefly sort out various areas of potential interest for those just being introduced to this great family of English writers.

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By the late 1930s Warsaw, Poland, was a vibrant city. It was home to a bustling business community and its historic promenade and outdoor cafŽs catered to the city's community of artists, writers, and intellectuals. It was a magnificent place to live and visit.

On 1 September 1939, the day the Nazis invaded Poland, that all changed--particularly for the Jewish population. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, Poland was home to the largest Jewish population in Europe. It is believed that prior to the war that more than three million Jews lived in Poland. It is thought that perhaps fewer than four hundred thousand survived the war.

In September 1939, George Rynecki was a Jew living in Poland. He was a new father and just starting his business. The life he had planned was suddenly and radically altered. Instead of focusing on his family and nascent business, he found himself scrambling to outsmart the Nazis and provide for his family. With a combination of courage, wits, luck, and bribery he survived the Holocaust.

Unfortunately, George's father, Moshe Rynecki, was not so lucky. Moshe, an artist who lived in Warsaw, refused to leave the city. While George was unable to save his father from deportation to the Majdanek concentration camp, at the end of the Holocaust he was able to retrieve many of his father's paintings. Moshe's paintings, which are realistic depictions of Eastern European Jewry, were obviously personally important to George, but are also of historic importance; they portray a people, a culture, and a community that was almost completely annihilated by the Nazis.

This memoir, read in tandem with viewing Moshe Rynecki's paintings, provides a more complete picture of the Eastern European Jewish community, and the Rynecki family in particular.

If you are interested in this book, you might also be interested in Jewish Life in Poland: The Art of Moshe Rynecki (1881-1943).

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"Never turn your back on the ocean. People who do often do not return to port." This was some wise counsel given to the author as a child being raised in the Canadian Gulf Islands by an unusual sea-faring Anglican minister and his kindly wife. With the solid influence of British culture and the lush setting of Mayne Island and its highly individual and entertaining inhabitants, the author has brought a collage of tales together to reveal the flavour of West Coast living, from discovery days to current times. As a sea-going realtor, the author met many a character who left a story to be told. A considerable collection of photographs, archival as well as the author's own, illustrate this intriguing memoir.

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This is the true story of Charles Hayes, a man who, from the time he was a school-boy essay-winner in England, set out to become a writer and news broadcaster. A lifetime of adventure led him, as a young articled clerk in a London lawyer's office, to WW2, when he became an Infantry Officer in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. After his experiences in Burma, he was sent in 1946 to Simla in the Himalayas where, a year later, he was present at the partition of Pakistan and India.

On his release from the army, he boarded a ship in India bound for England with his wife and two young children. After a four-day stop-over on the East African coast they decided to go no further. He accepted a post as District Officer in Kenya, a country which he was destined to enjoy for the next 35 years.

With a 'golden' voice, he was the perfect 'stringer' for BBC - the British Broadcasting Service for Foreign News, sending daily reports to the world and was an avid news writer for several English and South African newspapers. He also used his voice, and his love of acting, to star in many theatrical productions and films shot in Kenya.

By the early 1950s, as Mau Mau (The War of Liberation) threatened Kenya, Hayes was instrumental in starting the first Kishwahili newspaper and, as Editing Director, soon developed the Standard Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd. , publishing daily and Sunday newspapers in the English Language. In the early 1960s, His Highness, the Aga Khan, bought shares in the company which now has the largest newspaper coverage in East Africa.

On his retirement in 19890, Hayes immigrated to British Columbia, Canada, with his third wife and young daughter, to start a small-town weekly newspaper, The South Okanagan Review, which was published for 15 years.

Between 1996 and his death in April 2000, at the age of 85, Hayes wrote a book on Kenya and 3 books on British Columbian pioneers.

This Love Letter as a Biography captures the spirit of the Indian and African adventures and experiences of a remarkable gentleman, Charles Hayes.

A STRIKING NEW CONCEPT!

Here's a peep-show compendium of personal poems with a pulsing, provocative pace. Each one is linked to events of its time, along with a look at what lured it to life.

Author Walt McConville lets down his hair (the little he has left) and gives you a candid contemplation of a life lived to the limit.

With seven books, three musicals, two plays, and over 500 poems, short stories, travel and technical items to his credit, Walt's way with words will warm you within!