About Puppets of Faith: Theory of Communal Strife (A Critical Appraisal of Islamic Faith, Indian Polity ‘N More)
The sublimity of Muhammad’s preaching in Mecca and the severity of his sermons in Medina make Islam a Janus-faced faith that forever bedevils the mind of the Musalmans.
This thought-provoking work, besides dissecting the anatomy of Islam, steeped in the Quran, seeks to depict the psyche of the Musalmans, shaped by the proclivities of their prophet, vicissitudes of his life and the attitudes of his detractors, which the mechanism of their umma perpetuates.
More to the point, aided by “I’m Ok – You’re Ok”, the path-breaking work of Thomas A. Harris and Roland E Miller’s “Muslim Friends–Their Faith and Feeling”, this book, for the first time ever, psycho-analyzes the imperatives of the Muslim upbringing, which has the potential to turn a faithful and a renegade alike into a fidayeen.
Also, apart from delving into the ironies of the faiths that affected the fate of the peoples, eclipsed the cultures of communes, altered the course of history and afflict the politics of the day, this book examines how the sanãtana ‘Hindu’ dharma came to survive in India, in spite of the combined onslaught of Islam and the Christianity on Hinduism for over a millennium.
This book is for those who wish to be aware of the follies of their faith and the foibles of others to lighten the burden of dogma and reduce the baggage of prejudice postulated in its thirty-four well-structured chapters.
Also, besides providing a panoramic view of the Indian history, this thought-provoking book appraises the way its political leaders made or unmade the post-colonial India.
Possibly in a new genre, this free ebook is a book for our times.
Contents
Preface of Strife
Chapter 1: Advent of Dharma
Chapter 2: God’s quid pro Quo
Chapter 3: Pyramids of Wisdom
Chapter 4: Ascent to Descent
Chapter 5: The Zero People
Chapter 6: Coming of the Christ
Chapter 7: Legacy of Prophecy
Chapter 8: War of Words
Chapter 9: Czar of Medina
Chapter 10: Angels of War
Chapter 11: Privates of ‘the God’
Chapter 12: Playing to the Gallery
Chapter 13: Perils of History
Chapter 14: Pitfalls of Faith
Chapter 15: Blinkers of Belief
Chapter 16: Shackles of Sharia
Chapter 17: Anatomy of Islam
Chapter 18: Fight for the Souls
Chapter 19: India in Coma
Chapter 20: Double Jeopardy
Chapter 21: Paradise of Parasites
Chapter 22: The Number Game
Chapter 23: Winds of Change
Chapter 24: Ant Grows Wings
Chapter 25: Constitutional Amnesia
Chapter 26: The Stymied State
Chapter 27: The Wages of God
Chapter 28: Delusions of Grandeur
Chapter 29: Ways of the Bigots
Chapter 30: The Rift Within
Chapter 31: The Way Around
Chapter 32: The Hindu Rebound
Chapter 33: Italian Interregnum
Chapter 34: Rama Rajya
Chapter 35: Wait for the Savant
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Author Bio:
BS Murthy is an Indian novelist, playwright, short story, non-fiction ‘n articles writer, translator, a ‘little’ thinker and a budding philosopher in ‘Addendum to Evolution: Origins of the World by Eastern Speculative Philosophy’ that was originally published in The Examined Life On-Line Philosophy Journal, Vol. 05 Issue 18, Summer 2004.
Born on 27 Aug 1948 and schooled in letter-writing, he articulated his managerial ideas in thirty-odd published articles, and later he penned Benign Flame: Saga of Love, Jewel-less Crown: Saga of Life, Crossing the Mirage: Passing through youth (plot and character driven novels), Glaring Shadow: A stream of consciousness novel, Prey on the Prowl: A Crime Novel, Of No Avail: Web of wedlock, a novella, Stories Varied: A Book of Short Stories and Onto the Stage: Slighted Souls and other stage and radio plays.
Then entering the arena of non-fiction with a ‘novel’ narrative of Puppets of Faith: Theory of Communal Strife (A critical appraisal of Islamic faith, Indian polity ‘n more) possibly a new genre, he ventured into the zone of translations for versifying the Sanskrit epics, Vyasa’s Bhagvad-Gita (Treatise of self-help), Valmiki’s Sundara Kãnda (Hanuman’s Odyssey) in contemporary English idiom, and a critique Inane Interpolations in Bhagvad-Gita (An Invocation for Their Revocation).
And in the end, as a prodigal son, he returned to his mother tongue, Telugu, to craft the short story తప్పటడుగులు (Missteps).
While his fiction had emanated from his conviction that for it 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, all his body of work was borne out of his passion for writing, matched only by his love for language.
Besides, some of his published articles on management issues, general insurance topics, literary matters, and political affairs in The Hindu, The Economic Times, The Financial Express. The Purchase, The Insurance Times, Triveni , Boloji.com are at Academia.edu https://independent.academia.edu/BulusuSMurthy
BS, a graduate mechanical engineer from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India, had been a Hyderabad-based Insurance Surveyor and Loss Assessor for over thirty years.
He takes keen interest in politics of the day, has an ear for Carnatic and Hindustani classical music and had been a passionate Bridge player.
He’s married, to a housewife, with two sons, the elder one a PhD in Finance, and the younger a Master in Engineering.
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