In Kisa Gotami, a mother's sorrow, Raj Arumugam presents the story of a young mother who cannot initially accept the fact that her child is dead, and how she later overcomes this sorrow. The story is presented in the form of a one-act play. It is a piece of fluid writing that can be read or performed. This is a unique re-telling of a grieving mother's story and it takes the reader along with Kisa Gotami on her journey of pain and wisdom...

1815-1821....Napoleon is in exile in St Helena island. Laure, a humble woman and mother writes to Napoleon for advice on aspirations and success that she can pass on to her children...Napoleon receives the mail and touched by her love for her family and children, he agrees to write a letter and notes to her and sends them off secretly..."Laure writes to Napoleon" draws on this imagined situation to create a series of letters from Napoleon on human aspirations and personal success....

The poems of Raj Arumugam enjoy immense popularity and admiration at the more significant poetry websites. His poetry encompasses a wide range of subjects and there is always a sense of the oneness of the world in his poems. There is humor as in his "ha ha" poems and serious inquiry into the nature of truth as in the poem 'of spiritual matters'. His poems are also noted for their deliberate links with our world art as in the title poem in this collection "Rembrandt laughing" and the Dutch master's work of the same title. Also in this book are poems closely linked with art masterpieces from...

100 comic tales of Nasreddin (Nasrudin) in a quick bunch of 100 poems

Lin Tang, a scholar, anonymous and destitute in medieval China...Ashok Cushman dying (or already dead) in the mountains in a contemporary but an imagined Australia...and Vyas, a sanyasin in medieval India on a journey millions of wanderers have taken and continue to take - these three characters in the tales that form SATORI each experience moments of insight, of illumination. The tales offer readers satori of their own, as they follow the three characters on their various journeys. "SATORI" is designed to be a personal experience of insight even as each of the three tales engages the readers...