# O My Darling India!

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**Author:** A. Sathyanarayanan
 **Pages:** 198 **Year of Publication:** 2009 **Price:**
HB Rs 250, FB Rs 200 **ISBN:** HB 81-8157-865-5 (8181578655) FB 81-8157-866-2 (8181578662)

_**About the Author**_
 A. Sathyanarayanan completed his schooling in Hyderabad 
and went on to receive a B. Sc. in Mathematics from Hyderabad’s Nizam College and
an MBA from IMT, Ghaziabad in 1992. He worked for over a decade in advertising before
an ill-timed heart surgery forced him to alter his professional course. His interests
include Chennai, its beach, Tamil culture, spiritual classes hosted by Swami Parmarthananda
and playing the guitar.

_**Teaser**_
 “I wake up to the sirens of an ambulance and see a patient being rushed
in. At least there is hope as I see the frenzied manner from the 4th Floor window
of Apollo Hospital. It is winter here and time for the north-east monsoon to bring
in the rains. As the sun rises, I feel gooseflesh as a streak of tears form in the
corner of the eye. I am lucky to be alive today and most surely not make it next
month.

Make no mistake, I am dying and don’t need a doctor’s worried look or the anxiety
writ faces of my wife and children. My body was giving up on me and I could sense
the daily deterioration. I was appalled by the mirror: Though balding fast, my face
had a youthful lustre, a long and round nose, and a small mouth. At over 185 cms
height and an extra bit of fat, colleagues at the office suggested that I resembled
Helmet Kohl, the ex-German Chancellor. Now I could see the face taunt and withered,
the nose now looked more snubbed and that alone showed I was degenerating fast.”

[_Extract taken from “Death Becomes Me”_]

_**Contents**_
 My Entrepreneurial Days / 11 Spirituality in Kaliyuga / 32 Romancing
the Stone / 43 Living under Arc Lights / 63 Death Becomes Me / 80 The Glories Seventies/
98 Horrors of Bus Travel / 112 Tuning and Curving / 123 When India Commits Suicide/
142 Outdoor Advertising Convention / 155 Woman of Substance / 167 Truck Drivers 
and Bus Conductor / 182