Jewel-less Crown: Saga of Life
Publisher: Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press
Published: 2/15/2013
Format: ebook
Number of pages: 125
Description: It's perilous penning this blurb. 
It's fine when man is modest about his work. 
It even affords him the aura of an invisible crown! 
But what about his work? 
Were it an art or craft, it is there for all to see. 
What of a literary work of an unheralded author? 
Well, lauding the same might raise one's eyebrows. 
Failing to praise wouldn't make a 'jewel-less crown' either! 
Why not see, if this is the great Indian novel.
This is the story of the rise and fall of an ambitious man, the decline, and the decay of his conniving wife, the trials, and tribulations of their wayward son as well as the grit and gall of a spirited woman, who enters into his life. 
This depiction of their life and times not only pictures the facets of ambition and achievement, intrigue and betrayal, compulsion and compromise, sleaze and scandal, trial and sentence, but also portrays the possibilities of repentance and resolution, love and empathy coupled with compassion and contribution, leading to the spirituality of materialism, and that makes it the saga of our times.
The story of a lifetime, truly.
Notes: This creative work like the author’s other fictional endeavors had emanated from his conviction that for fiction to impact readers, it should be the soulful rendering of characters rooted in their native soil but not the hotchpotch of local and alien caricatures sketched on a hybrid canvas, and was embellished by his passion for writing, matched only by his love for language.
Table of contents: title: Book One; title: Artha ‘n Kama; title: 1. Party Gone Sour; title: 2. Trauma at Tihar; title: 3. Mind of the Maligned; title: 4. Twist at Tis-Hazari; title: 5. Trial in Camera; title: 6. Dilemma of Qualms; title: 7. Moment of Reckoning; title: 8. End within end; title: 9. Vestiges of Prestige; title: 10. High on Rebound; title: 11. Bellows of Delhi; title: 12. Dicing with Life; title: 13. Spidering Spadework; title: 14. Loss to Order; title: 15. Daring the Fate; title: 16. Victims of Deceit; title: 17. Baring the Soul; title: 18. Garland of Guilt; title: Book Two; title: Dharma ‘n Moksha; title: 1. Bliss of Being; title: 2. Collage of Crime; title: 3. Domain of the Devil; title: 4. Renaissance of Life; title: 5. Sprouts of Love; title: 6. Despair of Hope; title: 7. Turn at the Bend; title: 8. Amity of Empathy; title: 9. A Day to Remember; title: 10. Spirituality of Materialism; title: 11. Sense of Reincarnation; title: 12. Epilogue.