Before Independence, England was the destination for an Indian doctor who wanted to study medicine beyond MBBS degree. England was treating India as a part of United Kingdom. Most of the privileges that the citizens of England enjoyed were also conferred on the Indians. For a doctor graduated from an Indian university, it was easy to get a job as a houseman in a hospital in the United Kingdom. Dinker's medical degree belonged to the 21st century. Dinker got it approximately 5 decades after India became independent. Soon after Independence, medical education in India was reformed and...

The novel winds through lives of people to point out how vacancies happen and how they are filled. The stories appear to resemble those of our own friends and relatives but none of them are biographies of any living or dead person. They are only imaginary episodes woven into fictional compositions to produce an impact on the minds of readers to regard this world as a continuous machine of decay and death followed by renewal and rejuvenation. The story is an attempt to place before the readers how retirement affects men and women. Ancient Indians have divided life into four phases; the...

This is a Konkani language book written in Kannada script. The style of language is of Gowda Saraswath Brahmans' speech. The subject Secularism is much talked about in India but discussing it in Konkani helps spread the information among a vast section of people who understand this language. It is not difficult to know what Secularism means but interpreting it as a substitute for a religion is grossly reactionary. Secularism is not refraining from owning a religious bend of mind. In fact it is easier to practice good habits if one is religious. Secularism is only a State policy in India. The...