Böcker av Chiradeep Patra

According to an Animal Kingdom TV Channel documentary, ""the Leafcutter Ants can carry more than fifty times their weight only with their jaws,"" thus ranking them third among the world's strongest creatures. In the book of Proverbs, the Bible speaks of ants as being one of the wisest creatures on the planet, saying, ""Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!""Ants are considered to be wise because they are not only hardworking, but also because they never stop working. We humans have been given dominion over all creation. Still, we struggle because of the slackness in our responsibilities - whether in our financial affairs, relationships or workplace issues. That is why we, the sluggards, have been asked to consider learning from the wise ants.This book is a collection of 15 articles penned from my own experiences, where I initially behaved like a sluggard - in body or mind or spirit - but bounced back in due course of time with the help of wise counsel.

On February 20th 2001, I met a girl lying on the stretcher as I was on another, about to go for my second heart surgery in the Manipal Heart Foundation, Bengaluru. We just smiled, looking at each other, realising we both were going for the same procedure. Using this little fact of my life, I construed an utterly fictional story for my readers to wonder about and be inspired. It's a story about two heart patients having feelings and emotions like all others around them.