There are books and there are books and then there are those books that leave an indelible impression on your mind for eternity and make you want to go back to them over and over.........
Tabrik C's "Prisoner, Jailor, Prime Minister" is one such effort that you want to go back delve in it's 319 odd pages again and again in order to unearth or excavate hidden facets and meanings that you may have ignored or bypassed in your earlier reading/s of this sure shot best seller........
Set largely in the future (end 2016/early 2017) Prisoner etc tells the tale of an India that is on the precipice or cutting edge of a subversive internal revolt that threatens to subvert the very constitution of this glorious country as well as an ever present or eternal threat held out by jihadi elements who lay their hands on enough or adequate fissile material to execute or carry out their own nuclear explosion in the neighbourhood of India's nuclear testing site in Pokhran (Thar desert in Rajasthan)........
Cometh the hour, cometh the messiah and the reluctant messiah in this case is consummate outsider Siddhartha Tagore- a conflicted, confused and diabolic musical and political genius as well as prodigal son to boot; a Harvard graduate who loves his Mozart in equal measure with Tansen; Siddhartha boasts of his own radical or then "hatke" views on China, Pakistan, friendly and neighbourly relations with our regional counterparts and is thrown into the innermost recesses of an all engulfing political cauldron from which he merges as the prime minister of a nation at the crossroads of both it's political history as well as existence as an independent nation.........
Faced with a faceless enemy and female version of Narendra Modi who wants to take India back to the Vedic Ages and thereby reduce a nation that has thus far taken immense pride in it's "unity in diversity" to a monotheistic monolith; Prisoner, Jailor, Prime Minister is a rivetting, eyeball catching, scorching, no holds barred and starkly honest account or portrayal of Siddhartha Tagore's epochal and equally fascinating journey from Harvard to 7 Race Course Road.........
Priced at an extremely pocket friendly Rs. 350/- and published in India by Hachette Publishers this magnum opus that is rocketing it's way up the best seller lists is available at a hefty 30% discount off the cover price if bought from Flipkart, Homeshop 18 or then any other online book store.......
So do both your heart and soul a favour by reaching out and procuring your very own copy of Tabrik's soul churning and gut wrenching saga as such books come along only once every five years or so.........
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tabrik C is a political enthusiast, perfumer as well as internet entrepreneur who boasts of a post graduate degree in History from the ultra prestigious Saint Stephen's College in New Delhi where he was the president of the student's union for his fair share of years......His special or then should I say almost unique ability lies in dispassionately and candidly observing, analysing, predicting and debating the rise and fall of sterling political personalities and their deep rooted influence on the destiny's of both nations and individuals.........
Tabrik can be reached at: tabrikc@gmail.com, or then through facebook atwww.facebook.com\Tabrikc........
Tabrik C's "Prisoner, Jailor, Prime Minister" is one such effort that you want to go back delve in it's 319 odd pages again and again in order to unearth or excavate hidden facets and meanings that you may have ignored or bypassed in your earlier reading/s of this sure shot best seller........
Set largely in the future (end 2016/early 2017) Prisoner etc tells the tale of an India that is on the precipice or cutting edge of a subversive internal revolt that threatens to subvert the very constitution of this glorious country as well as an ever present or eternal threat held out by jihadi elements who lay their hands on enough or adequate fissile material to execute or carry out their own nuclear explosion in the neighbourhood of India's nuclear testing site in Pokhran (Thar desert in Rajasthan)........
Cometh the hour, cometh the messiah and the reluctant messiah in this case is consummate outsider Siddhartha Tagore- a conflicted, confused and diabolic musical and political genius as well as prodigal son to boot; a Harvard graduate who loves his Mozart in equal measure with Tansen; Siddhartha boasts of his own radical or then "hatke" views on China, Pakistan, friendly and neighbourly relations with our regional counterparts and is thrown into the innermost recesses of an all engulfing political cauldron from which he merges as the prime minister of a nation at the crossroads of both it's political history as well as existence as an independent nation.........
Faced with a faceless enemy and female version of Narendra Modi who wants to take India back to the Vedic Ages and thereby reduce a nation that has thus far taken immense pride in it's "unity in diversity" to a monotheistic monolith; Prisoner, Jailor, Prime Minister is a rivetting, eyeball catching, scorching, no holds barred and starkly honest account or portrayal of Siddhartha Tagore's epochal and equally fascinating journey from Harvard to 7 Race Course Road.........
Priced at an extremely pocket friendly Rs. 350/- and published in India by Hachette Publishers this magnum opus that is rocketing it's way up the best seller lists is available at a hefty 30% discount off the cover price if bought from Flipkart, Homeshop 18 or then any other online book store.......
So do both your heart and soul a favour by reaching out and procuring your very own copy of Tabrik's soul churning and gut wrenching saga as such books come along only once every five years or so.........
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tabrik C is a political enthusiast, perfumer as well as internet entrepreneur who boasts of a post graduate degree in History from the ultra prestigious Saint Stephen's College in New Delhi where he was the president of the student's union for his fair share of years......His special or then should I say almost unique ability lies in dispassionately and candidly observing, analysing, predicting and debating the rise and fall of sterling political personalities and their deep rooted influence on the destiny's of both nations and individuals.........
Tabrik can be reached at: tabrikc@gmail.com, or then through facebook atwww.facebook.com\Tabrikc........
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