My book The Mulla Nasruddin Stories is published through Lulu.com. The pocketbook has plenty of illustrations and has 158 pages. There are 160 plus stories. Here is a write-up about my central character: Mulla Nasruddin is a common folk hero in the Near East, Middle East and Turkey. He is a Seljuk satirical Sufi figure, [...]
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Gandhi-the Book
Posted in books,, tagged 2G spectrum scandal, A. Raja, Bapu, Father of the nation, Gandhi, Henri Troyat, India, Joesph Lelyveld, John Masters, MF Husain, Pulitzer prize, The Bhowani Junction, Tolstoi, WE Gladstone on April 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Pulitzer prize winner Lelyveld’s book on Gandhi is sure to raise hell at some quarters in India. In India traditionally saints are served larger than life so much so the fluff from their plaster cast must leave the purveyors giddy. If Mother India is shown in her buff it is outrage but if she [...]
A Bumper Book of Anecdotes
Posted in books,, tagged bennythomas, bennythomas.nl, lulu/content/10337977, pen portraits on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Plutarch
Posted in books,, tagged Emperor Trajan, Herodotus, humanism, librarian, Parallel Lives on September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Plutarch as a writer of biographies is always a pleasure to come back to when one’s vital forces are vitiated by the meanness of living close to the plough. Our earthly existence has to deal with much of doing what are necessities that lay our larder stocked but do not however satiate the spirit. Plutarch [...]
Sufficient II-http://www.lulu.com/content//7701159
Posted in books,, tagged analyses, history, humor, meaning to life, Observations, self-improvement, wit on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The trader and the Jinn-crying calf
Posted in art, books,, illustrations, tagged 1001 Night, Benny Thomas, black art, illustrated tale, Jinn, lulu.com, pen, sorcery, The Arabian Nights, watercolor on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Pirate Story
Posted in books,, fiction, short story, tagged Buccaneer, Carribean Islands, free enterprise, Open End, Ottoman Empire, The Great Game on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How Open End Kept His Promise© (selected from the Adventures of Open End. Open End was a pirate who only wanted a piece of the action at a time when the kings of Old Europe thought the Americas was ready for plucking. There was so much gold and silver over which no one had any [...]
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