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| Saturday, January 2, 2010 |
| The Telegraph, Kolkata |
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| God Behind the Firewall : A Novel |
| By Anirban Ray |
| Sparrow Publications |
| Price ₹250, U.S.Dollar :
$11 |
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A software professional
disillusioned with his job, seeking spiritual fulfilment. Eventually, he realizes that mystical messages are encrypted in the
software codes he has used. With the help of his wife, Sampurna, and after a hectic travelling schedule, covering California,
Calcutta, Bangalore, Las Vegas and the Lake District, Arun finally reaches the abstract “Quantum Mind, Cyberspace”. Then,
at last, he realizes that science is nothing but a spiritual quest. Now, all he has to do to redeem the holy power of software
and science is to fight a moral battle against hackers, the ungodly race. The novel ends with Arun’s discovery of “the Avatar” — a “collective spiritual being”, “a simulated aggregation of our quantum consciousness”, “a step closer to God” than ordinary
human beings (does it make any sense at all?). Strewn with quotes of Nietzsche, Einstein, Edgar Cayce and Oprah Winfrey,
the novel, pretending to be a piece of science. |
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| Friday, March 19, 2004 |
| Hindustan Times, Kolkata |
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| Bled white for
oil |
| The author
documents the decimation of Iraq as a West Asian superpower
in order to protect American interests |
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| Iraq War : The History Behind
the Conflict - The Untold Story |
| By Albert Jurgen |
| Sparrow Publications |
| Price ₹200, U.S.Dollar :
$10 |
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The book is extensively documented
to show how the US in 1991 virtually trapped Iraq into
a war with Kuwait, once a part of Iraq, so that the
Western power could intervene in a local conflict and
safeguard its three overriding interests – keep
the oilfields under its control, ensure safety of Israel
and never allow Pan Arabic solidarity to grow. For those
who do not know from earlier accounts, Jurgen’s
documentation will help estimate the scale of tragedy
in Iraq in the Gulf War. “The tonnage of ordinance
expended over Iraq in the span of 12 days exceeded the
total capacity of bombs dropped in Germany throughout
World War II”.
In the American operation to free Kuwait, about 1.5
lakh Iraqis died. |
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| Friday, April 2, 2004 |
| www.hindustantimes.com |
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| MUST READ |
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| Iraq War : The History Behind
the Conflict - The Untold Story |
| By Albert Jurgen |
| Sparrow Publications, Price
₹200, U.S.Dollar : $10 |
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| Jurgen, an expert in strategic studies,
has presented in this slim title the backdrop of the
armed conflicts in which Iraq got involved with Iran
and then with Kuwait and the attendant human tragedy
and virtual elimination of Iraq as a regional player. |
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