The Foreword to Snippets of Life Music

Literature is the picture of society that is not how it looks but the inside of it. Focusing on the weak spots in society and the system, it has the power to change them. It is poetry that has brought about revolutions, reformation and awareness. When John Ball shouted ‘Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?’, the Peasants’ Revolt triggered and rebels advanced on London; Milton’s voice established the Commonwealth of England; Pindar filled Greece with passion; Bhushan and Chand Bardai made Indian swords thirsty of blood; Dickens turned public attention towards orphans through his novels. Tolstoy’s stories have the power to change one’s view of life; Aesop’s fables can make its reader a perfect man. Holy prophets were wonderful storytellers. Their stories reformed society and made men out of animals.

Art and music appeal even to infants. A child listens to your stories, mulling over events. Slowly they start to imitate their hero. A good story helps children build up their confidence, gain good habits and develop an inquiring attitude to learning. Mothers used to tell stories or sing soothing lullabies to their young children to help them go to sleep. These children, inspired by the stories, grew up to be respectable, courteous and disciplined. Now with people having a casual attitude towards literary books and sociological studies, the society has been led astray and uncontrollable children grow into young criminals.

Snippets of Life Music, has twenty one short stories: each of them informs, resonates with emotions and represents different universal themes and each, a few pages long, has contents of a wholesome novel. By reading this single book, you are going to get what twenty one novels can offer. It never fails to entertain its reader for hours with stories full of thrill, fear, excitement, with love stories and with heart-warming and spiritual tales.

The book is an album of a variety of stories that cover both sad and cheerful aspects of life. They are the pictures of varying human minds; they put true examples of how a particular type of person responds in a particular situation, warn the readers of the consequences of various character flaws and show them the successful ways of life. They put both moral and immoral ways of life with their effects on the society side by side and leave for the readers to see which to choose. They are also a magical mix of fantasy and reality. You will find the aspects of rural and city life and also have pastoral scenes tranquilizing your tired and stressed self.

‘Snippets of Life Music’ caters for all levels and everyone is sure to find their favourite one. It consists of a story that answers to the question how a common man is no different from an aristocrat. One of the stories in the book makes you realize what God is; the other one will convince you that even an offender is an essential component of society. One of them tells you how procrastination costs one too dear. Another one of them describes poverty is a common issue and how it tags along with people. A family in a story is condemned to a life of hardship because they love to show off their possessions. The book has a one-act-play (Clean India) which gives a vivid picture of how the common people are given to unhygienic practices and also shows them up. You will also see how a manager deals with a difficult customer and also how an irritable manager makes the mess of his office.

The stories will haunt you for weeks, stay with you for months and kindle your emotions with genius in amazing flights of imagination and with prose precise and punchy. You will read it during the day and have strange yet pleasant dreams at night. However, the stories do not contain traditional themes in which people’s emotions are unnaturally exaggerated – they will compel you to think over the images they have engraved upon your heart and each of the stories has profundities and analytical precision with exact characterization and accurate psychological and sociological analysis.

If you cast a cursory glance at the stories in Snippets of life Music, you are going to find them quite simple. But if you read them carefully, you will be amazed to get something exciting and interesting. The deeper you go, the more you will enjoy the different shades of meaning, connotations and subtexts. They are serious and of lasting value: likely to be numbered among the masterpieces of classical literature.

The book is also rich with grammatical structures, useful for language learners, and therefore helpful in developing communication skills. It has many distinguishing features, but what make it exceptionally rare are diverse topics that it covers. If a story unfolds against a background of legal system, there is some other based on political activities, so you will find some fine examples of many different technical terms like: scientific, business, social, medical, political, spiritual, legal, administrative and so on.

A good book is a door to a better life. Go in through it and you will see a different world where the sky is clear, the deep green trees wave gently in the breeze, snow-clad summits grace the landscapes, the sea ripple and sparkle, where parks are always full of young lovers, where supermen fight off bad guys and resolve crisis, where roads to success are not much stony, where doubt and uncertainty has no place to lurk around, where no corner is dark.‘Snippets of Life Music’ is a guardian angel. It helps its readers deal with the real world, offers a wealth of delights and inspiration for gift ideas and opens the secrets of a symbiotic relationship.

On the pitch of a mind god and satan struggle.

To rule our lives try their best the forces of evil.

Keep bad company and let the devil in you win;

Or in good company keep yourself free from sin.

Very good company is Snippets of Life Music –

Have this book with you and enjoy fiction classic.