ISBN: 978-1-905796 The Dharma Videos of Lust
Subtitle: Mysteries of Indian Religions
By: A renowned professor leads a double life as a Hindu priest in this novel
Edition: Re-issued
Publisher: UKA Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London, U.K.
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 204
Work titles: Novel
First sentence: It is difficult to know just where to start, but perhaps it all began on a hot afternoon last November when I set off to Austin with my wife.
Description: Mohan Chaube leads a double life as a Brahmin priest and a radical professor, and comes to repudiate all religions, including his own. After settling down to watch racy videos sent to him in secret, he comes face to face with his own assumptions, and here he presents the reader with the vivid, dramatic, personal stories behind those videos, while also weaving through Hindu mysteries, myths, rituals, rites, and festivals which wallow in sex and violence. He seeks to show how faith leads to irrational actions, and has undermined human rights, gender equality, and ethnic diversity. At the same time, he uses satire and humor to show the dark side of a religion followed by over a billion people, some of whom are amongst the best educated in the world.
Notes: Available from UKA Press, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com and other bookstores on the Internet.   Finalist of "Best Books Awards" from the USA Book News in 2006 and Finalist of "National Indie Excellence Awards" in 2009.
Table of contents: title: 20 chapters