A Datta: 13 books

What would be the truth value of the statement, "Time has no beginning?" What existed a minute before the beginning of time? Are the past and the future alike? We know about fundamental particles near us. But beyond our universe, quadrillions of light years beyond the farthest heavenly body that exists,...

An exact definition of God and a decisive answer to the eternal question, "Does God exist?"This essay also questions the propriety of preaching to a dying human that they have sinned and asks if knowledge of good and evil can be an evil in itself.Two kinds of prayer have been associated with two kinds...

This book is for you if you would like to be involved in your school-going kid's math education and need to get your own basics right, or if you decided to extend your education, may be involving some computer programming, or statistics and want to be up to speed in junior high school math before...

"When I was a kid dad told me that Ootacamund a.k.a. Ooty is the land of eternal spring in India. But when I opened the Lonely Planet India Travel Guide, I found that water freezes in Ooty in winter. Surely Ooty couldn't be the land of eternal spring! However not very far from Ootacamund there...

Curious about cats? It has been claimed that people who like house cats invariably love books. This delightfully illustrated volume on cat care presents information about their behavior, interactions with their own as well as other species, vaccination, deworming, restraining, feline vocalizations,...

An unusual love story with a message of bliss. Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's idealistic protagonist refrains from marrying his childhood sweetheart only to regret it years later. Then fate bundles them together during a dreadful night-storm and any moment can be their last. Read this translation of Tagore's Ekratri …

Taught at college level across India, this gem of a short story originally written in Bengali in 1914, lays bare the heart of matrimonial relations in a significant part of nineteenth and twentieth century as well as an uncertain proportion of twenty-first century India. This piece from Tagore will...

This is the English translation of Tagore's "Mukut" meaning crown, set in 16th century royal Tripura. The play is all ready for production. The Emperor's sons compete with each other in a contest of archery with an unexplainable outcome. Following that they are sent to battle the Burmese...

The bard wrote at the conclusion of his sixth letter, "Then the Sun-god having contained his thousand rays laid out his tired head on the bed of multitudinous clouds leaning on sunset's shadowy peak and closed his sleepy crimson eyes; the birds returned to their respective nests. The lowing herd...

A pack of jackals howled out very loudly from a bush causing a minute-long hiatus in the schoolmaster's flow of words. It seemed as if the comically-inclined vulpines in that pitch-dark aggregation reeled with laughter either at the teacher's exposition of conjugal life or at Phanibhusan's...

Male chauvinist, resentful of those who were "not content to attend strictly to their own particular fakes", retiring from a thoroughly dishonest vocation but not paying back his victims, the author has many faults. But he does expose the methods employed by "mediums" like himself...

This short life-drama originally penned by Rabindranath Tagore in Bengali begins in an idyllic setting. While the clouds and the sunshine are the two prominent players in the firmament, on the earthly stage below the main players are a little girl named Giribala and the young law graduate, Shasibhusan....

When a feudal lord from a far off place arrives in his boat, the villagers get all worked up and women who happen to be at the river bank draw veils over their faces like a set of curtains hanging down to the ends of their nares. Mrinmayee nevertheless rushes to the riverside holding a naked child,...