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Thursday, December 2, 2021

Wanna Be an Advance Reader of my upcoming books?


 

Readers are the pillars to the authors’ endeavor. They have helped me improve my writing. They have helped me keep writing even during the darkest hours.

So this is my way to say how much I lean on YOU, my readers. 

This is an offer. If you wish you can have advanced copies of my soon to be published books.

All you need is to fill up a simple form. It has less than ten questions. You need to choose your response from the options. There are less than five options for each question. Options are mostly “Yes”, “No” and “Maybe”.

If you agree to be a reader of advanced copies of my unpublished books, you would find one in your email in the desired format.

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Monday, October 4, 2021

More About Maternal Might


  Fatima had three daughters. She used to live in Bangladesh. She was frail and poor. She was unable to take care of herself and her daughters. One day she grabbed the opportunity that appeared before her. It led her to further opportunities. Eventually, her burden of maternity became her power that set her on the path of emancipation from poverty.


    Abel and Joshua used to live in Israel. They wished to have children of their own. There were physical obstacles and social dilemmas. They overcame everything by the actions of their visionary friend, modern technologies and ventures in service sectors.



Fatima became instrumental in the creation of the  family of Abel and Joshua. All of them got what each of them wanted by catering to each other's needs. In this story of personal achievements, some philosophical arguments on national identity reached a resolve.

It is now out on Amazon Kindle and free with Kindle Unlimited. 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GL3HDGK 

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Friday, September 24, 2021

About Maternal Might



Hello there,

Hope you all are good. Hope you all are enjoying yourselves. I am back with a new book. Its name is Maternal Might.

Maternal Might is a short read fiction. It is about a mother’s desperate endeavors in search of livelihood. It is, also, about fathers’ endeavor for family.

Poor, frail Fatima in Bangladesh was desperate to earn bread for her daughters. Her daughters had already learnt to digest hunger. They mustered the patience to see if they would get some food.

Business owners Joshua and Abel, from Israel, set their mind to start their family. One of them relocated his business to the other’s city. One of them was ready to risk a physical makeover to become parents.

Can Fatima and the couple Joshua and Abel, cater to their respective needs?



Maternal Might is rooted in a podcast I heard a few years ago. It speaks about women empowerment and gay rights. It depicts how humanity can reach the pinnacle of harmony by means of modern technologies and visionary initiative.

Short stories by Dr. Manos Chowdhury of Bangladesh helped me build the world of Fatima. Blogs and Vlogs about Israel helped me build the world of Joshua and Abel.

Maternal Might is ultimately an extraordinary tale of human actualization. It is the story of real union which seems impossible from a traditional viewpoint. 

It is now out on Amazon Kindle and free with Kindle Unlimited.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GL3HDGK 

Or, check here.

Hope you Enjoy reading it and please REVERT with REVIEWS.

Post your Reviews at https://www.amazon.in/review/create-review/?ie=UTF8&channel=glance-detail&asin=B09GL3HDGK

Or Click here to write Review 



Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Pros and Cons of Beta Reading

 Beta Reading is ……

Dangerous, at times.

Helpful sometimes.

Yet, I am still keeping an open mind.

I introduced my piece to be a flash fiction.

Beta Reading comments were:

  • Too many character introductions needed more built.

  • Too much is happening too quickly.

Isn’t it surprising?

Some advised to choose a topic that is not too vast.

Some protested the transition from one POV to the other.

And there are the usual grammar police, going beyond wholesome experience and the message, picking up gerunds and transitive verbs.

Instead of spending ten words on describing WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENED, I changed the respective tense of the verbs to create different time stamps in the plot. A question about this experiment was normal. But,  eviscerating an author’s inefficacy based on an experiment is too fanatical.

I have been writing for thirty years now.

I started publishing because a few accidental and private readings by teachers made them ask me for my write ups for school magazines and their private magazines.

My mistake was I asked entry into groups or asked a big publishing house editor for viewing my things.

Groups have their respective political goals and backstabbing methods through numerous private channels surrounding the forum. And I was not a whisperer.

Big publishing houses would not entertain anything outside their propaganda. Their employee editor has not much choice other than picking up a few money churning keywords. Neither big publishing houses can fancy to penetrate a new market with a new author.

With all the experiments and ideas of a potential market, I had to go self publishing. Often publishing under a publisher’s brand is self publishing too, with respect to author’s expense of printing, responsibility of distribution and marketing. So I have decided to do it without publishers’ names tagged along.

I have decided to do it ALONE.

Hence, I sought beta readers.

I do read other authors’ works in progress. I generally give them a reader’s feedback. I don’t suggest a plot point change or expression enhancement. I just convey what has satisfied me and what has not.

My readers made me think if I am seeking feedback from the right crowd. Hence, I would not accept the feedback that suggests elaboration or change of topic of the flash fiction. The efficiency of an author lies in depicting a story, illuminating a story within given limits of different formats(bytes, mini saga, flash fiction, shorts, novella, novel, epic). Whatever may be the topic, the story should be fulfilling and the message must be loud and clear. 

Besides, one of the readers, bragged that none of the contemporary author aspirants are good enough compared to the erstwhile ones. This is not a new complaint.

But I do seldom find the benchmark lies on classics from all over the world. The comparison of every writing is with the contemporary best selling books.

Hence, fantasy is sought in an upmarket novel. Fantasy is sought in sci-fi. Mythology is sought in political novels. Sorcerers are even sought in a Spy thriller or Police Procedural. Especially, while the author seeks feedback before publishing.

[Probably because fantasy gives lots of space to readers’ imagination which cannot be invaded by visual media. Otherwise, all other genres are better enjoyed over visual media at present.]

It is difficult to choose from piles of feedback. An author needs to be aware that her creation was a flash fiction, not the first three pages of a novel. 

To justify my points I would try mini saga format for classics:

If “One thousand years of Solitude” would have been a Mini Saga:

Crossing vicissitudes, some people escaped their sanguinous past; formed a township. The Gypsies explained to them, “The earth is round.”

While searching for her delinquent son, the mother discovered a trade route; ushered in government,  taxes, labor. Revolution insinuated.

Scandals, conservative superstitious cover ups were all blown by a storm.

If “Old Man and the Sea” Would have been a Mini Saga:

The old fisherman dreamt of seas and lions, though caught nothing for the past eighty four days.

Then he found one. While he was sailing with its carcass, imagining freedom from debts, the sharks attacked.

The fishing dock was abuzz with an eighteen feet piscean skeleton. He was asleep then.

It is not the responsibility of the beta reader to be satiated from what they get. It is the author’s choice to pick among feedback and move on.

Therefore, I chose the rare helpful ones and discarded the dangerous ones.

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What do you think?

Let me know in the comments.

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Relevance of Indian CItizenship Decoded

 As COVID-19 invaded India, the entire media coverage was diverted towards the horror of the pandemic. In the midst of global tragedy, the agricultural reforms act came into effect. The debate hungry populace embarrass the left, the right and the centre of the new law. It appeared that 2019 amendments of the CItizenship Act, 1955 was just passé

However, citizenship of India will remain a matter of concern for all the citizens till India stands as a sovereign nation. Therefore, debate over the latest amendments of the Citizenship Act, 1955 is still pertinent to the nation.


This argument can be substantiated in the latest outbursts of protests against CAA in Assam. Current debate is about breach of Assam Accord by CAA, 2019.

Assam Accord is Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955 as amended in 1985 [by Act 65 of 1985, s.2, with effect from December 7, 1985].

It has three landmark years in its definitions of different sections. These are 1964, 1966 and 1971. 

What does each of these years mean?

1964 is the year of the Constituting Foreigners’ Tribunal. It was the first step towards separating illegal immigrants in the entire territory of India. 

1966 is important year because January 1, 1966 was marked as the starting date for persons entering Assam from [specified territory]* whose name was to be deleted from subsequent electoral rolls (voters’ list) as mentioned in Subsection (3) of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955 as amended.

1971 is important as Midnight of March 24, 1971 was marked to be the end date of entry of persons from [specified territory]* whose name was to be deleted from subsequent electoral rolls (voters’ list) as referred in preceding paragraph.

* As mentioned in Assam Accord, [specified territory] is probably the areas belonging to Pakistan till 1971 and then to Bangladesh. This has not been explained in the Citizenship Act, 1955 as amended till now.

As soon as, a person is detected to be a foreigner by definition of entry to India from [specified territory]* between January 1, 1966 and March 25, 1971 such a person would be removed from the electoral roll though such person can keep their Indian passport.

Moreover, March 25, 1971 is the latest date of publication of the electoral roll to be compiled into the Legacy Data prepared for the National Register of Citizens in Assam. 

This appears to be discordant with the Assam Accord. Assam Accord declined to include people in electoral rolls who entered from the [specified territory]* into India in between January 1, 1966 and March 25, 1971 as soon as these people are identified to be foreigners with Indian Passport. Moreover, the Assam Accord attempted to put an embargo of ten years on these people becoming citizens and subsequently voters in India.

Preparation of Legacy data with electoral rolls published before March 25, 1971 was governed by the RULE 4A & SCHEDULE OF CITIZENSHIP RULES 2003 (As amended by 1. G. S. R. 803(E), dated 9th November, 2009 (with effect from 9/11/2009.) This rule unambiguously declared to exclude all persons identified to be foreigners by provisions of Assam Accord to be excluded from the Legacy Data [Rule 3(2) under Schedule supporting Rule 4A of Citizenship Rule laying out SPECIAL PROVISION AS TO MANNER OF PREPARATION OF NATIONAL REGISTER OF INDIAN CITIZEN IN STATE OF ASSAM]. Thus, the process theoretically resolved the conflict of point of references of definition of citizens on the basis of electoral rolls of 1951 and three subsequent electoral rolls published until March 24, 1971.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 has marked December 31, 2014 to be the last date of entry to India from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh for people belonging to defined religious groups to be considered for Indian Citizenship. The matter being sub-judice the framing of rules regarding this proviso of the amendment is still pending. Unless the rules, which are the executing procedure of the act,  under this proviso takes forms and shapes, it cannot be said if this proviso is in discordance with the Assam Accord.

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Looking for more resolves on the disputes over the Citizenship Act, 1955 and its amendments until now? Then, get your facts straight with “Indian Citizenship Decoded”.

Now available in Amazon and Amazon Kindle Store for prebooking all across the globe through designated market places at https://www.amazon.in/dp/B09875SJF8 

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Friday, July 23, 2021

Downloading #IndianCitizenshipDecoded in Different Marketplaces

 


In my previous blog I have elaborated the content of the book [here]. Hope, you have found the content useful. 

The content can be pretty useful for persons who are appearing in competitive exams for public services in India.

It can be useful to students abroad who need to maintain their Indian Citizenship.

It can also be useful for people who are treading in between Indian citizenship and citizenship of another country and vice versa.

It can also be useful for the people who are sceptical about the National Citizenship Register and how NRC would affect them.

Moreover, it can be useful to everyone who is curious about the true nature of the Citizenship (Amendement) Act, 2019 and the nature of controversy around it.



In an ambition to be more useful I am sharing herewith the details of having the book.

It is available in both Kindle format and Paperback.

The paperback is already available for purchase in nine (9) marketplaces. It can be accessed by this link from anywhere on the earth. It would be better while ordering a paperback to log in to the nearest geographic Amazon Marketplace.

If anyone is trying to purchase Indian Citizenship Decoded from Pakistan or Bangladesh, it would be better if they buy it from amazon.in.

If anyone is buying the book from South Korea, it will be better if they access amazon.jp.

For people in Newzealand the nearest Amazon marketplace is amazon.au.

Nearest marketplace for Finland is amazon.de.

Then there is amazon.co.uk, amazon.fr, amazon.es and so on as detailed below:

The United States (amazon.com),

The United Kingdom (amazon.co.uk), 

Denmark (amazon.de), 

France (amazon.fr),.

 España [Spain] (amazon.es),

Italy (amazon.it),

Japan (amazon.co.jp),

Canada (amazon.ca),

Australia(amazon.com.au)



August 15 is the Independence Day of India. The book is about to be released on Kindle is about citizenship of India. For dramatic effect, the release date of the book, “Indian CItizenship Decoded” has been set on August 1, 2021, the onset of the month of Independence.

The Kindle edition will be available in more marketplaces than the paperback. Also, the marketplace does not matter as long as purchasers can access any of the marketplace domain name (.com, .in, .co.uk et cetera) from purchasers’ geography while buying digital copy. However, if anyone finds any obstacle in accessing any domain, they can try the nearest geographic market place. The domains and geographies are as follows:

amazon.com > the United States

amazon.co.uk> the United Kingdom

amazon.de>  Denmark

amazon.fr> France

amazon.es>España (Spain)

amazon.it>Italy

amazon.nl> Netherland

amazon.co.jp>Japan

amazon.com.br>Brazil

amazon.ca>Canada

amazon.com.mx>Mexico

amazon.com.au>Australia

amazon.in> India


About Prebooking/Purchasing/ Free Download

Prebooking means if a purchaser pays for the book on Kindle Store anytime before August 1, 2021 then the book will be downloaded to the purchaser's device on August 1, 2021.

Purchasing means paying for the book as online shopper. It would enable the shoppers to read the book on their devices.

Free Download mean by clicking buy button the shoppers can download the book free of cost on their respective devices.

The devices can be a Kindle reader or an iPhone/ iPad with Kindle App or an android phone/table with Kindle App. Also, can be a desktop/laptop computer where browser is the reader.

For downloading Kindle App the purchaser should go to - 

Google play store for android phone/ tablet; then search by typing “Kindle”, then press/touch “Install”

Or, to the Apple store for iPhone/iPad; then search by typing “Kindle”, then press/touch “get”.

Those who just downloaded the Kindle App and those who already had the app now can open the App, then type in “Indian Citizenship Decoded” on the search bar and search for “Indian Citizenship Decoded”; as the book appears you can try any one of the buttons, “Prebook” (Till July 31, 2021), “buy” or “borrow” (since August 1, 2021). 

Following are the links to videos for finding “Indian Citizenship Decoded” on Kindle Store and Reader (App).


Downloading Kindle on Android phone/ tablet for #Indian #Citizenship Decoded

Downloading Kindle on iPhone/ iPad for Indian Citizenship Decoded

Downloading Indian Citizenship Decoded on Kindle App

Prebooking of Indian Citizenship Decoded


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The Kindle Edition of Indian Citizenship Decoded is now available in Amazon and Amazon Kindle Store for prebooking all across the globe through designated market palces at https://www.amazon.com/Indian-Citizenship-Decoded-Emotional-Predilections-ebook/dp/B09875SJF8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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Thursday, July 8, 2021

More about Why #IndianCitizenshipDecoded

 I have so far divulged [Live in this link] that Indian Citizenship Decoded/ Beyond Emotional Outbursts and Political Predilections have come into existence from an urge to know the definition of citizenship in India. With then ensuing controversy over the recent amendments of the Citizenship Act, 1955, curiosity also dragged the search to find the root of the controversy. Thus, the book is full of details about the controversy regarding the controversy.

In my previous post about the book [linked here], I have shed light on how I have approached the bare acts. The approach has been the same in discussing the stance of the Constitution of India on the matters of citizenship.

The book opens with the perception of citizenship in the Constitution of India. Then it goes through the nitty gritties of the Citizenship Act, 1955. The chapter has highlighted all the amendments made by the Citizenship (Amendment), 2019 with the Act of 1955. This has been the blatant attempt to understand the seed of the controversy.

As an obvious outcome, the book has gone through understanding the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003. It made clear that the processes followed in preparation of the National Register of the Citizens in Assam was execution of the aforementioned rule.

Therefore, the step by step process of NRC has been noted in the book. The forms used, the enumerations in the forms - all were discussed with reference to the aforementioned rules. 

Finally, the book took on the controversy. Sifting through the cacophony, the debate over the legitimacy of the amendments of 2019 of the Citizenship Act, 1955 were narrowed down only to two questions. Those two questions have been discussed with references to the Constitution of India, verdicts by the Honorable Supreme Court of India, some research papers, some reports by the foreign governments and by the United Nations and some international Non-governmental organizations.

Yet the book abstained from putting forward its own opinion.

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The Kindle Edition is now available in Amazon and Amazon Kindle Store for prebooking all across the globe through designated market palces at https://www.amazon.com/Indian-Citizenship-Decoded-Emotional-Predilections-ebook/dp/B09875SJF8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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The paperback is available now in selected marketplaces from all over the globe through https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098GTZYKK?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860


Monday, July 5, 2021

Why #IndianCitizenshipDecoded

 


It was January 2020. Conventional Media was gushing out debates on the legitimacy of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. Social media was abuzz with protests against allegedly communal, unequal and, hence, illegal amendments of the Citizenship Act, 1955.

The name of the law appeared cumbersome to the tongue. It shrunk and evolved to CAA.

The Kolkata book fair was noisy with “CAA CAA CAA Chih Chih Chih” (Ka Ka Ka Shame Shame Shame) shouts. The literary environment was polluted with political propaganda “Kagoj Dekhabo Na” (Won’t Show Any Paper).

It was fun to absorb the conundrum being at the core of it. 

But it was shortened.

Shri Rajarshi Chattopadhyay, Editor, Nayadashak (Webmag), asked me to write about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.

I started digging. I failed to produce a relevant write-up for Nayadashak. Instead, my notes started taking the form of a book.

I was conscious that the debates over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 were (are) still subjudice before the Honourable Supreme Court. Hence, my writings must not cross the boundaries of impartial observations. The author must not cross the limits of an ordinary citizen by drawing inferences based on historic references.

Yet I have tried to highlight the facts that are never pointed out overtly in myriad politically colorful cacophony. Because, twenty years ago when the media was abuzz with pre-56 status of Kashmir, there was no clear definition of the status in the media. Nor was it explicitly mentioned in the polity textbooks. But analytical reads of those books revealed that 1956 was a waterparting in the history of Independent India with respect to accession of Kashmir to India. In “Indian Citizenship Decoded/ Beyond Emotional Outbursts and Political Predilections”, I tried to eradicate the confusion created by implicit narrations and ambiguous explanations. 

In this book I have literally decoded the code (law) of Indian citizenship by dismantling articles/ sections, subsections, clauses, subclauses into conditional statements. Bare Acts are prosaic reads. They appear cryptic, too. I have tried to untangle the statements of the acts through nested/ cascaded conditional statements that were condensed inside the statements of bare acts.

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