Just back from an exciting lecture by Suneet Singh Tuli(CEO, Datawind), organized as a part of IIT Guwahati Entreprenerial Summit. F.Y.I - Datawind is the company manufacturing the Aakash tablet. So, he talked about the 'Indian Pride' and how he used it to his advantage against all adversities. I don't want to write anything about his lecture here because I wouldn't be able to do justice to his narration(more likely reason is that yours truly is feeling too lazy) but you may try to get a copy of the video recording from the organisers.
Anyway, the above things got little to do with Sherlock Homes. I am not a big fan of Sherlock Holmes stories but I had watched the BBC series - like any true IITian - within a span of two days. And I must admit it did catch up my imagination though not as much as what I am about to tell you. So, I was reading the book 'The Fang of Summoning' by Giti Chandra when it struck me to check how many Indian writers wrote fantasy which I will make it very clear excludes the crappy and disgusting love novels from stupid engineers. It was then that I came across Vodafone Crossword Book award winner 'Mandala of Sherlock Holmes' by author Jamyang Norbu. I will simply quote the abstract found on the internet(what can I do? laziness is my vice) ............
In 1891, a horrified British public learnt that Sherlock Homes - in a last deadly struggle with arch criminal Professor Moriarty - had perished at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland . Two years later, popular demand made Conan Doyle resurrect the great detective. Holmes informs a stunned Dr. Watson: 'I traveled for two years in Tibet , therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhasa .'
This is all that the world has known of Sherlock Holmes' journey to the East. Jamyang Norbu - an avid reader of Kipling and Doyle - decides to take the matter in his hands; to investigate Holmes' stay in Lhasa , Tibet . What he unearths is the Mandala , written by a wily Bengali scholar, Hurrie Chunder Mookherjee, Holmes' traveling companion. The Mandala holds the key to the mystery and revelas that it is difficult to resist.
An exciting, often richly humorous detective story The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes also evokes the romance of Kipling's India .
Truly proud of being an Indian today......
Anyway, the above things got little to do with Sherlock Homes. I am not a big fan of Sherlock Holmes stories but I had watched the BBC series - like any true IITian - within a span of two days. And I must admit it did catch up my imagination though not as much as what I am about to tell you. So, I was reading the book 'The Fang of Summoning' by Giti Chandra when it struck me to check how many Indian writers wrote fantasy which I will make it very clear excludes the crappy and disgusting love novels from stupid engineers. It was then that I came across Vodafone Crossword Book award winner 'Mandala of Sherlock Holmes' by author Jamyang Norbu. I will simply quote the abstract found on the internet(what can I do? laziness is my vice) ............
In 1891, a horrified British public learnt that Sherlock Homes - in a last deadly struggle with arch criminal Professor Moriarty - had perished at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland . Two years later, popular demand made Conan Doyle resurrect the great detective. Holmes informs a stunned Dr. Watson: 'I traveled for two years in Tibet , therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhasa .'
This is all that the world has known of Sherlock Holmes' journey to the East. Jamyang Norbu - an avid reader of Kipling and Doyle - decides to take the matter in his hands; to investigate Holmes' stay in Lhasa , Tibet . What he unearths is the Mandala , written by a wily Bengali scholar, Hurrie Chunder Mookherjee, Holmes' traveling companion. The Mandala holds the key to the mystery and revelas that it is difficult to resist.
An exciting, often richly humorous detective story The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes also evokes the romance of Kipling's India .
Truly proud of being an Indian today......
