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Dr Roopali Sircar Gaur,  retired professor of English Literature,  Delhi University. She’s also a poet, travel writer and social justice activist. She comes from a military family-her father was in the military, her husband,a  verteran soldier, and writes poems about soldiers and war related themes.     Passionate about creating opportunities in education and employment for those left behind.  She is the Founder President of YUVATI, a nonprofit organisation working for adolescent girls and boys across India. Sircar Gaur also works with children from underserved communities through  "Mera Kitab Ghar", the Backyard Book Club she established as a pop-up book club. The book club offers reading, learning, peer interaction and play opportunities for children of all ages. An avid gardener, composter, recycler and re-user, she finds poetry and humour in the smallest things around her. Bringing together the poets in this volume has been a labour of love as well as a personal dream come true. Sircar Gaur retired as an Associate Professor from the Department of English at Delhi University's Sri Venkateswara College, where she was tenured at the age of twenty. She has authored several books.

Dr. Molly Joseph is a Professor, Poet from Kerala, who  writes Travelogues, Short stories and Story books for children. She has published fourteen books,12 Books of poems, a novel and a Story book for Children. She has won several accolades which include India Women Achiever’s Award  2020. She believes in the power of the word and writes boldly on matters that deal with the contemporary..........She  is a bilingual writer, writes Travelogues, Poems and Short Stories (for children also); has published  15 Books which include 13 Books of Poems.

Khyrunnisa A. is a former professor of English and a full-time writer. She has written several books for older kids-in fact, she’s creator of the much-loved comic character Butterfingers. She also wrote the Butterfingers series for Penguin Random House. Her first book for adults came out in 2019, called Tongue in Cheek-the funny side of life. It is published by Westland publications and is now available on Amazon.

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BEYOND RELIGION: Imaging A New Humanity

Rev Valsan Thampu

https://www.amazon.in/BEYOND-RELIGION-Imaging-New-Humanity/dp/1913738086

· Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pippa Rann Books and Media (25 December 2021)

· Language ‏ : ‎ English

· Paperback ‏ : ‎ 380 pages

· ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1913738086

· ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1913738082

· Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 480 g

· Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.3 x 1.8 x 23.4 cm

About the Author

For over three decades, Valson Thampu has been a voice of reason on issues of national importance in India, covering education, politics, religion and culture. Prize-winning translations from Malayalam are among his books. Commencing his life of public service as a member of the faculty in St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, he served as its Principal from 2008 – 2016. During this time, his interests grew, blossomed and covered the Indian sub-continent, a process of growth in which he followed the footsteps of an illustrious predecessor, C. F. Andrews, who was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi and Gurudev Tagore.

Excerpts....

In times of true spiritual awakening, Religion & Spirituality are the same. But in times of decay, they become exactly the opposite, and that’s the strange thing about it.

The main difference I find between the religious sector and the secular sector, is that whereas accountability is nil in the religious sector, in the secular or political sphere, you have to be accountable, and it is an obvious thing that where there is no accountability, people lose their sense of balance….

The corruption of religion began when reason was exiled from religion….

Religions vary in their capacity for tolerance or penchant for intolerance, up to a point….

Today, there is an unprecedented faith in the justness and efficacy of violence. Which means that the old faith in dialogues, debates, persuasion, tolerance and liberal culture-everything goes out. This indicates that faith in violence is creeping like cancer, in our society.

It is impossible to reform a religion from within. There is absolutely no example in history, of a religion having been reformed.

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