Ramesh Tiwari

Read the extract from a story in ‘Snippets of Life Music’ and feel the recollections of childhood spent in a village. “Threshing floor,” Deep repeated, looking up from his food and turning to me with a dreamy look in his eyes. “Oh it brings back bitter-sweet memories for me. I had to drive a pair of oxen, yoked together, round and round in circles over a circular bed of dried wheat plants in the heat of the midday sun and to continue doing it until dusk. Sometimes my father would harness the animals to a threshing sledge and ask me to drive them, standing on the runners, so that the stems and husks might be crushed and seeds could be separated from the straw faster. It was sort of a very exhausting job because we had to work in the blistering afternoon sun and the dry blades or bristles on the glumes of spikelets made tiny cuts in the skin. Sometimes I was so tired of the merry-go-round of the job that I longed for someone else to do that for me. But my father, on the contrary, would ...

I have had a lot many startling and positive #feedback on my book ‘#Snippets of Life Music’ from my #readers over the phone, via email and social media. Whoever reads the book appreciates the amazing flights of imagination, the new perspective it gives and the impression it leaves. Some of my friends have asked for my own opinion about the book. I tell them with absolute certainty that the sea of time cannot drown it – since it is archetype of a classical work, it will certainly get a place among ageless books. Just read the following excerpt from a story in my book and see how it includes #universal facts about human life.

Here is an excerpt from a story in ‘Snippets of Life Music’. You will certainly find that the book is really a very fine buy or it is what you have been looking for:  ‘Maybe you’re right, as religion is the first product of human civilization. But it would be unfair to take politics to be religion now.’ ‘However, you can’t refuse to accept the differences that exist between different religious communities.’ ‘Yes, social organization differs between the different groups of believers. Also, members of a group get used to their own culture which makes it difficult for them to adjust to different approaches. But then, it doesn’t cause them to become fanatical about religion until they are provoked by politics.’ ‘Then why don’t you say that religion and politics are jointly liable to ethnic tensions?’ ‘Why do you limit religion only to civics? After all it also includes spiritual values and worship of God whose pursuit gives a feeling of serenity and health. Some suffer from pain, so...