The Next Life
A Novel About India with Glimpses of Its Past and Present
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About the Book
“THE NEXT LIFE,” a Novel by Ashok Sinha, author of 20 books, is the story of an Indian
woman’s triumph against depression. A set of characters are involved in her journey – her
husband, her sons, her psychiatrist, her hypnotist, her favorite hero of the Indian Filmworld
called Bollywood. As her story progresses, there unfolds a parallel set of stories from
ancient India featuring emperors and sages; as also does India’s present socio-politi coreligious
scene.
Naturally, many political episodes and undercurrents touching upon a number of other
countries of the world – Pakistan, United States of America, China, Russia, Italy – come
into light. Thus, this novel is not only a depiction of the struggle of an individual to win
over odds of life and of her buoyant transformation, it is also a succinct record of the true
happenings in India of the yore as well as of India of today, woven and intertwined in an
absorbing frame of fiction and reality. Readers in India as well as anywhere else in the
world would find this story touching and moving; entertaining and even educational.
About the Author
Ashok Sinha holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics, and is also interested in literature and spirituality. He has written 20 books in English and in Hindi, including in physics, satellite and Mobile Telecommunications theory, poetry, fiction, plays, religion, and translations of certain classics. He worked at NASA and INTELSAT (International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, Washington, D.C., USA), contributing in Elementary Particle Physics Theory (including mathematical modeling of the so-called ‘GOD’s Particles’), Cosmology, Space Physics research, and satellite telecommunications technology. Currently he lives in Santa Clara, California (USA) with his wife. [ aksinha1722@yahoo.com ]