Christopher Newfield

Mukul Kumar

Zachary Bleemer

Aashish Mehta

Chris Muellerleile

Counting What's Really Important to College Students

Metrics That Matter

Shiva is handsome, an irresistible talker, well-off, lives in Delhi's poshest suburb, is a dutiful husband to the attractive Akriti and is a perfect father to their little son. So why is he the picture of disenchantment? Is it that not-so-uncommon human condition-boredom that sometimes accompanies fidelity-that haunts him? In Shiva's case, the discovery that Akriti has already found distraction with someone else frees him to look for excitement on his own-but with a mind conflicted between dharma and desire. Which is the path that he will choose to walk on? Shiva embarks on a journey to empirically explore different options-the sexually vibrant Sana and Mary, to name a few-but at the end, winds up with more questions than he started out with. To confuse things further, Akriti continues to occupy a tender place in his heart-as a woman first and a wife later. A slice-of-life tale, which is part reality and part legend, Seduction by Truth dares the modern reader to solve civilization's oldest puzzle-marriage.

Seduction by Truth

R. K. Pandey

Vikas Kumar

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME 2018). The book discusses interdisciplinary areas such as automobile engineering, mechatronics, applied and structural mechanics, bio-mechanics, biomedical instrumentation, ergonomics, biodynamic modeling, nuclear engineering, agriculture engineering, and farm machineries. The contents of the book will benefit both researchers and professionals.

Select Proceedings of FLAME 2018

Advances in Interdisciplinary Engineering

In this colourful coming-of-age tale of software engingeer Ganga, debutant author Mukul Kumar describes the cultural transformation of India accompanying the advent of its highly sophisticated software industry. Kumar's colourful settings and worldly characters, fuelled by his personal experiences as a software engineer, make readers eager to accompany Ganga to his various onsite opportunities. Onsite Opportunity delivers an unparalleled glimpse into the young generation of India which is getting exposed and transformed with unprecedented opportunities. As a young software engineer commencing his career, Ganga has amazing travel opportunities. Wide-eyed and dreamy since his youth, the onsite opportunities seem as engrossing as Gulliver's or Sinbad's adventures. As Ganga voyages across the seven seas, he quickly learns that the real world is more stimulating than he could have ever imagined. He becomes a keen observer of men and their idiosyncrasies, acquiring worldly knowhow and indispensable survival skills along the way. As Ganga shares accommodation with different people from around the world, he gets acquainted with the cultural and moral values of each country. He is oftentimes left with difficult choices. But he meets every challenge head-on, reconciliong the gains and pains in his roller-coaster ride of life.

Onsite Opportunities

Do Not Believe in God Till You Experience Him

Freedom, friends and fun. That's how most of us remember our college years. But for those studying to get into the coveted Indian Civil Services, college life acquires an additional layer. As Boys Become Men revolves around three such boys, Mihir, Uday and Sandeep, who set out together to crack the Civil Services exam. Narrated by the thoughtful and intense Mihir, this book explores college life, friendship, romance, leaving home and adjusting to a new environment, and describes how negotiating the path between dharma and desire, love and lust, can be tricky. A sparkling story of the bond between a boisterous trio, the book will take you on a journey of discovery, where boys become men, and students become civil servants. In the course the book also ends up telling us what not to do when writing the Civil Services exam. A slice-of-life tale with a 'Mona Lisa' flavour that offers fun and romance aplenty, this book also imparts philosophical truths that will help every young person out to discover life.

As Boys Become Men

"Does Karma exist? Is it possible to remember past life? Are there clairvoyant people who can see your aura and know of your past and future? Is it possible to have “out of the body” experience? Can there be transmigration of souls? Do our dreams tell us something? Can a Guru help you liberate from the cycle of life and death? Is there life on other planets and solar systems? Are there intelligent beings in outer space who are observing us? Do some people know when the world will end? Is it possible to be prepared for the end of the times and to move on to a new civilization? What is the purpose of my life? A series of mysterious coincidences lead a child from a remote village in India, who would not have any future otherwise, make leaps of progress. His curiosity led him to attend some conferences given by a Brazilian missionary representing a cult in Spain headed by a Spiritual leader from Mexico. There was an instant attraction. The boy cuts his family connections, overlooks his career aspirations and lands up in the monastery in the Cataluña region of Spain to be a missionary. The spiritual head of the cult directs all the followers to abandon their worldly connections and prepare for the doomsday and creation of a new human race. The followers built safe houses and prepared fervently in line with the instructions of the spiritual head. The doomsday prediction does not materialize and what follows is chaos and disorientation. The protagonist survives to tell his story."

Mukul Kumar

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