Five Answers To A Gandhian Question :
Why is Man the most violent animal on earth?
     
1.
Spiritual Bankruptcy
Book - 1
2.
Sexual heirachies
Book - 2
3.
Lust for Imperial glory
Book - 3
4.
Consumerism - the MBA Cult
Book - 4
5.
Death of Cottage industry -
the ‘Charkha’ spirit
Book - 5

A party in Viceroy’s Palace
(Scene in ‘Through The Eagle’s Eye- Book 3)
 

The inevitable has happened, sooner than expected. The much hyped “free” market economy bubble appears to have burst. The spectre of “globalization”, terrorizing the poor of the world has come and gone like a fierce tornado, a “tsunami”, leaving in its trail misery and devastation on a global scale. The inhuman MBA cult of uninhibited market-led consumerism conceived, bred and nurtured through all the devious arts of the Devil by Harvard and its sister institutions, has been shattered. The anti-social luxury loving society this culture has spawned is in a shambles, one hopes, never to return.

Gandhi has said “God has provided enough for every one’s need but not for everyone’s greed”. The following books tell you how these unnatural traits of greed and possessiveness, inherent in Man, have led him step by step to the extremes of violence. A new wave is slowly emerging to help man look within and explore a whole universe of divine energy waiting to be tapped.

 
   
   

Book -1 (Full Text)
Spiritual Awakening in Gandhi and other Indian saints
By R.D. Ranade

Foreword by Arun Gandhi (grandson of Mahatma Gandhi)
Cover by Tushar Gandhi

Written in 1947 by one of the great saint-mystics of the last century this rare and virtually extinct book is different from most other literature on Gandhi in as much as it brings out forcefully two central points of Gandhi’s teachings barely mentioned elsewhere:

Similar to other saints Gandhi believed that soul force was mightier than the atom bomb as a weapon of self-defense.

The future happiness of India lay in building, Charkhaled self-reliant,self-ruled, rural clusters humming with cottage industries.

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Book – 2 (Full Text)
Manikpur Junction
A novel by M.B. Lal

In 1943 India stood at the cross-roads of history under the ubiquitous umbrella of one man: Gandhi. India was Gandhi; Gandhi was India. Today Gandhi’s teachings are all but forgotten and his dream of India as a God fearing land of piety, peace and social and economic equality for men of all communities stands shattered.

Published by Hemkunt this highly sexy novel attempts to give the 21st century generation of youth a peep into the Gandhian era in the form of adventures of an English girl of Swedish origin, during World-War II in British ruled India, where she is tracing the roots of Hitler’s Aryan fixation in a unique brand of ‘sexual fascism’ which uses selective breeding amongst humans as its principal instrument of governance.

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Book – 3 (Full Text)
Through The Eagle’s Eye
A Fairy Tale for Young and Old
By M.B. Lal

Highly praised by critics “Through The Eagle’s Eye” fantasizes in the form of a suspenseful and romantic fairy tale, based in modern times, the futuristic vision of sage Valmiki, author of India’s greatest epic, the Ramayana, which brings out man both as a demon (heavily armed Ravana with his imperialist lust to conquer the world) and an angel (Hanuman, a leader of the half-man-half-ape race of Vanaras who lived in caves and hills and ate only roots and fruits.)

Faith was their only weapon against the fore-doomed demons. This is why some scholars have called Gandhi, a devotee of Lord Ram, an ‘avatar’ of Valmiki.

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Book – 4 (Full Text)
Vanaloore Shinning
by M.B. Lal

Again, taking his cue from Valmiki Ramayana, M.B.Lal continues his attack on high-tech global imperialism in this novel. It is a fantasy describing Vanaloore a mythical city of the Ramayana era, a marvel of Vedic science resembling 21st century Bangalore and wallowing in the mire of its hedonistic cult of stark naked consumerism, existing side by side with a community of the oppressed race of Vanaras who practise what would today be called Gandhian values.

Essentially a graphic account of the thrilling adventures of a daring rakshasi princess and her equally brave Vanara lover, ‘Vanaloore Shining’ is also a reminder that demon Ravana’s imperialist 'Lanka' has been an ever present reality throughout human history and still is.

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Book – 5 (Full Text)
Make Your Own Airconditioner-cum-Heater
By M.B. Lal
Project partly funded by Government of India
Snowbreeze - A 90% Energy saving Gandhian Invention

Snowbreeze, a complete air conditioner invented by the author, consumes only 5 to 10 percent of the energy used by a wall A.C. It is an example of how the Gandhian approach of using simple ‘basic’ technology to meet our everyday needs can take the benefits of science to the common people, specially the sick and elderly.

For instance, the latest models of Snowbreeze AC cost between Rs.1,500($30) to Rs.2,500($50) to make and should bring down the temperature in a 120 sq ft room by 8oC or even more. It can run on an inverter since it is powered by a 4” exhaust fan of 25 watts. It can be freely used both as an air conditioner and a heater in winter. Its labour content is zero since all the components are mass produced items readily available in the market.

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Media View

M.B. Lal’s books and invention, Snowbreeze, have been widely reviewed and praised in two telecasts by CNN-IBN and leading newspapers including The Hindu, The Statesman, Indian Express, The Telegraph and The Tribune.

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