Beyond Life! Beyond Death!

By Dr. J.S. Anand

Beyond Life! Beyond Death! is a post colonial statement on the life of the post modern man, who has suffered emotional, psychological, and spiritual erosion, as a result of which he has lost his mental balance, and his physical shape too. He is a distorted figure now, beyond recognition, and in search of his redemption as a human being, which is eluding him, because, religion has failed to come to his rescue, no prophet can salvage him now, that he has slipped down the 'wasteland' into the 'wretchedland'. In this dark atmsophere, spiritual regeneration alone can help him out of this morass, for which, man will have to look beyond religion, into the possibilities of living in spirituality, which is a bypass and connects man directly with the divine, using love is the binding force, rather than fear on which religious establishment is built.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Mar 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482818499

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(Poems)

Dr. J.S. Anand

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Copyright © 2014 by Dr. J.S. Anand [3rd edition].

ILLUSTRATIONS: Kiranpreet

1st and 2nd editions: 2001

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CONTENTS

About The Author

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Abstract

The Inn

Seller Of Souls

Questionings

The Eternal Fashion Show

The Human Cauldron

The Hunter And The Hunted

The Lost

The Marathon Of Eternity

The Mirage

The Unfocused

The Family Divine

Journey

Circumscribed

Mismath

Mistaken Identities

Monsters And The Mummy

Ode To Autumn

Grapes And The Fox

The Titanic

The Cuckoo’s Complaint

The Heartbreak

An Indian Serenade

Bhuddha’s Good Luck

Of Trees And Man

The Flower Girl

Raakh (The Ashes)

The Dead And The Undone

The Great Day

Craving For Death

The Voyager

Death

Sharing

Love And Nothingness

Passion

Not A One Time Affair

You

Lamps

SWAMI JI SAHAYE

[With the Blessings of Swami Ji]

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A Member of the Syndicate and Fellow, of Punjabi University Patiala [Senate], Dr. J.S. Anand, has authored around two dozen books in English and Punjabi in the field of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and spirituality. Born [15 Jan., 1955], Anand received his early education from his village school [Longowal, Distt.Sangrur, Punjab, India], and graduated from Govt. College, Ludhiana. He secured his Postgraduate degree in English literature from Punjabi University, Patiala, [2nd in Univ.] in 1979 and his Ph.D degree on ‘A Comparative Study of Mysticism in the Poetry of Walt Whitman and Prof. Puran Singh’ in 2000 from Panjab University, Chandigarh. Anand joined teaching profession as a Lecturer in English in 1979 at GGN Khalsa College, Ludhiana. Thereafter, he spent 19 years at Guru Nanak College, Killianwali, [Distt. Muktsar]. He is in DAV College Bathinda, since 2000 and since July, 2004, he is serving as Principal of the College, which is a multi-faculty postgraduate institution.

In addition to this, Dr. Anand is also Manager of more than half a dozen Public Schools of the DAV Organization.

Dr. Anand’s work of English poetry ‘Beyond Life Beyond Death’ [2001] has been compared with T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’. This book is under publication again by Partridge, a subsidiary of Penguin Books. His book ‘Bliss’ has also created waves in international circles and attracted critical acclaim and the same has been recently compared with Khalil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’ [research paper pub in Language in India, Sept. 2013]. His recent publications from Createspace.com and Amazon.com., have aroused considerable interest. ‘Beyond Words’ and ‘A Million Destinies’ are under the lens of researchers. A research paper on Metaphor and Interdiscursivity in the Poetry of J.S. Anand, was also published in ‘Language in India’ while another research paper on ‘Beyond Words’: ‘Metaphor and Slogan in J.S. Anand’s ‘Beyond Words’ by Dr. Roghayeh Farsi is on the way.

Other major works of Dr. Anand include ‘Confessions of a Corpse’ [2013 2nd ed.], The Monster Within [2013 2nd ed.], The Apocalypse [2013], Metamorphosis and Emerging Paradigms in English Proverbs [2013], ‘The Wolves of Malwadi’ [2013], I Belong to You, [2007], The Other Passion [2004] etc.

Dr. J. S. Anand and his biographer Dr. Roghayeh Farsi [Iran] are now working on a new interpretation of the idea of text, context and biotext.

VISIT: createspace.com/amazon.com/justfiction.com/lambardt publishers.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks are due to several people who in one way or the other, participated in the publication of the third edition of ‘Beyond Life! Beyond Death!’. While releasing