Shatabdira Nachiketa ( The Nachiketas of the Century )
Publisher: M/s Grantha Mandira, Binode Bihari, Cuttack-2, Odisha, India
Published: First pubkished in 1965- Mnay subsequent publications afterwards
Place of publication: Cuttack, Odisha, India
Format: Fiction
Number of pages: 200
Table of contents: title: The myth of Nachiketa is well known as it pertains to the haloed Upanishad: Kathopnishad, the ancient book of knowledge and philosophy of India, that has its ramifications in the modern man's obsession with scientific inquiries to decipher the meaning of human existence  and man's never ending passion of conqoring death. This story however carries an inner meaning.It is of  the older generations ever willing to sacrifice the future of their successors  for perpetuating their own selfish ends.; title: The present fiction " Shatabdira Nachiketa" ( The Nachiketas of the Century) is a depiction of the same selfishness of the post Gandhian politicians of India, after independence, who engineered the attack on the future of brilliant youths of the times by misleading them and luring into dirty politics. The misled youths abandoned pursuit of higher education, set by the British so meticulously over the century, resulting in  the collapse of higher education in India  in no time.; title: The picture of this sad debacle of  human resources in our country is  remarkably portrayed in this novel of about 200 pages.