The Folding Chairs Meditation

Zusatztext

Dropped Off in a desert bardo after a rigorous affair with his beloved has crashed, a man scrambles to collect the parts. He even votes in a national election to appear normal, and that launches a downward spiral into displacement and suspicion. fear of censurefear of rebuff hed jotted on an index card under the womans bed. The Folding Chairs Meditation is a portrait of a reasonably sane person who crosses party lines to vote for president. The next day his mistress ab aeterna cancels their engagement on grounds of alienation of affection. Here he deviates from his self-told story and starts over from the ground up. What follows is a series of meditations conducted alone and in the company of witches who arrive in time to re-set the timer on the mans life and launch him on a new course. Petersons latest delves into the personal side of the latest national election in which issues and attitudes divided the U.S. to a degree perhaps unmatched but in the dark recesses of the psyche.

Autorenportrait

Mallikarjun B. Mulimani, born on 17 Sept. 1979, is a young electronics and communication engineer turned writer. He initially wrote poems; later took up writing short stories, novellas and novels. So far he has contributed to nine books viz. 'Abstractions, 'The Holy Plumber and Other Stories, 'Operation Epiphany Gods Journey on Earth, 'Victims Incorporated Circles of Sub-consciousness, 'Dams Across the Flow, 'What Happened to my Creativity?, 'Star Ride to Nirvana, 'Bhakti Sans Religion Dilemmas in the Search of Ones True Inner Self and 'Politics A Love Story. Four of these books have been published by Writers Workshop, Kolkata, one by Current Publications, Agra, another was self-published by CreateSpace, and his three latest novellas, 'Star Ride to Nirvana, 'Bhakti Sans Religion Dilemmas in the Search of Ones True Inner Self and 'Politics A Love Story were published by Leadstart Publishing Pvt. Ltd. The authors style is one in which he feels that brevity is of the essence. In his work, the author wrestles with the aspects of the social milieu, life, love, sex, death, religion, realisation of self and God and other serious issues. The author touches upon the metaphysical side of all the above-mentioned issues whenever he deals with them in his work. He is a serious writer, who also has a very subtle sarcastic wit about him. Even though he is still young, many eminent personalities including the late Prof. U. R. Ananthamurthy have appreciated him.

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