Books published by Partridge Publishing

Random Conversations talks about the lives of three friends, Justin, Deepakh and Chris, who spend their college life outside college, to say the least. As the title suggests, the book is a concoction of conversations between the three friends.The story is woven around college cultural and talks about Justin, Deepakh and Chris' journey through their college years trying to make a mark in cultural competitions.The pages in this book take us through their embarrassing performances on stage, the petty challenge they take up, filthy fights with their classmates, a fake industrial visit to Bangalore, politics in College, a love story and a movie making contest. Humorous bits of their experiences are breathed into the book to give it a fresh and young feel. The book ends in a positive note with a surprise twist.Random Conversations, a conversation you'll enjoy overhearing!

ROHANKAR is a compatriot, a companion and a connoisseur of a wide range of arts. The Poet envisions his emotions with great pizzazz and channels them through a variety of media. His mind churns out tunes of melancholy and echoes them on a pile of flat-woods. This book is an urn to the flowers growing out of ashes that were his days while cast away into the valley of ¿eytan disguised as a nymph.Temptation and devotion, emotional molestation and simplified perplexity, anxiety and sacrifice, helpless arrogance and selfless indulgence… are all painted on hectares of cotton fields like blood rain. These are the themes laid down throughout the pages of this love note.Furthermore, the metaphorical range that this collection encompasses is staggering. It tends to delve into the darker corners of a reader's mind. But, at the same time, it gives a clear sense of hope for hopeless romanticism.ROHANKAR succeeds in wandering off even beyond the horizon of his own unique visceral literary style. Going by the final set of wordplay, it is quite safe to assume that this convincing piece of work is just a verbal foreplay, a predecessor to, hopefully, a series of tributes to Nietzschean affirmation.

The book must be of use to those who look for deeper ways of living and self-development or who are educationists, psychologists, and spiritual seekers. It will take the reader beyond the mental psychological insights provided by the method of transactional analysis for understanding and improving relationships, as devised by Eric Berne, to the spiritual realms wherein hide the true meaning and purpose of human life, works, relationships, and growth. The book will be of interest to those who wish to derive from the spiritual method provided by the Gita the meaning of yoga as applied to human life and its importance in achieving peace and joy amid the contradictions and conflicts faced by the seeker. The writer has studied and followed Sri Aurobindo's extensive writings on Indian spiritual traditions, which make the foundation of his integral yoga, seeking a complete preparation of human life for enlarging and receiving a higher truth consciousness and a transformation of human life on earth, which must be mandatory for the flowering of such an aspiration. The book reflects a synthetic approach centered around the Gita and some subtle psychological observations about the traditional and current Indian societal patterns.

Occasionally, it happens that when men or animals have been struck by lightning, peculiar impressions have been left upon their bodies, which seem to be the exact impression of some adjacent objects, persons, paintings, etc., in the vicinity of the stroke. The imprint is so accurate, and sometimes the exact colors of the original object are also imprinted in such a way that it makes any common observer believe it to be a photographic replica. Amazing as it may seem, lightning sometimes turns out to be a good photographer!The book revisits this curious phenomenon of nature after more than a century, especially at a time when science is perplexed to explain the causes of spontaneous appearance of ghostly images occasionally found on windowpanes or the recent miraculous appearance of Virgin Mary's image on the window of a hospital in Malaysia.The book contains a greater body of information about the curious photographic effects of lightning than any other work on the subject, and it will be a convenient guide to those who wish to investigate further the amazing phenomenon of nature. This is a thorough study of the subject, written in nontechnical language for the layman with a scientific inclination or just curiosity about nature.

Driftwood is the story of Rini and Rajiv. It is about their love and loss, their struggle and success. It follows their journey from a slum in India to the Himalayan foothills, trekking the high paths in the land of the gods to the world of show business and high finances of property developers. It is about their meeting, parting, and shaping of their future.

What if Ajmal Kasab's mission were to entertain, and not kill, Indians? In recent years, many Pakistani actors and actresses crossed the border to work in Bollywood. The presence of a Pakistani actor will ensure a Hindi movie's smooth release in Pakistan. Many of them managed to become the heartthrobs of moviegoers in both countries while their lonely fellow national, who was the most hated man in India, spent his last years in a high security prison in Mumbai. If the real Kasab came to terrorize Indians, the Kasab in the novel comes with a seemingly noble mission. But does everything work smoothly for him? The fictitious Kasab doesn't wield a rifle, but the influence he wields over the moviegoers terrorizes many. The hero in the novel could have been known by any other name. But the name Kasab has been chosen to convey the ironies and contradictions in Indo-Pakistan relationship. The experience of a Pakistani actor is narrated here in a true Bollywood style - with drama, romance, action and suspense - to make it an unputdownable book.

It is the saga of riots that had spread much before the partition of India. There were murders, rapes, abductions, looting, and arson, and the government machinery miserably failed to control it. The law and order had gone haywire. The novel is mainly the story of three young boys who had lost their entire family during the riots. One of them though, academically brilliant and career wise, reached a coveted position but could not adjust with the unfamiliar ambiance and was a social misfit and a failure in life. The other two, through their sheer grit, made a mark in their life and bravely faced all the odds and obstacles in an alien milieu. The novel is full of pathos, events, drama, romance, and typical Punjabi sense of humor. The book advocates against religious bigotry without being didactic, because of which mankind is suffering till date. It is a great subject for a movie.

As a member of an uprooted family settled after partition of the country, on the other side of the border, the author in her book reflects on the pain, fear, embarrassment, sympathy, and affection of people who have been left to themselves yet, inspired by their own determination, have walked myriad journeys to become leading lights in their own ways.