Cindars From The Bonfire

A book poems that comprises the work of the poet over the last five years. The poems here were compose about the world around his life. The poems seek to stretch and combine different poetic forms to create a matrix of images and emotions.

Reproduction of the original: The Golden Bough by James George Frazer

Reproduction of the original: A Study in Magic and Religion by J.G Frazer

Frazer's series which attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.

The novel is a work of crime fiction. Arjun, a young man has lot of anguish about the gruesome murders of the innocents happening almost every day. The two most heinous crimes that shook him tremendously and almost changed his life were; A brutal gang rape and killing of Maya, a hapless girl in a night bus; and the mob-lynching of two teenage brothers in Pakistan. Inadequate punishments in both cases leave him exasperated. While on a religious trip to Gaumukh glacier in Uttarakhand, he is led to a supernatural world, amidst a conclave of restless loitering spirits of the slain victims of some of the grave crimes. There, he meets a sage who has some mystical connection with the three worlds; the divine, the living and the dead. He confers the power of invisibility upon Arjun, to deliver the justice. Arjun settles the scores with the perpetrators of both the crimes. Besides, he also rescues a child from a kidnapper, a young girl facing death sentence at the hands of the chauvinist clerics, many children from the traffickers, slavery and abuse using the divine power.