Press Release
Launching of Website and E-novel Ismilda Research Consultancy has launched its web site www.ismilda.org on 29 September 2006. Simultaneously it released e-novel authored by Carmo D'Souza titled Jose's Dreams. The e-book will be available on the site to the readers free of charge for reading upto the end of October. The theme of the novel is 'A New World Order'. The story begins at Baga Beach where the author meets in a photo flash chance with Jose and Nirmala , a mixed marriage couple. Nirmala sees behind this accidental meeting the hand of the Goddess of Peace. Jose , the main character in the novel is obsessed with the problem of world order. He gets a sequence of dreams, which unravel to him the concepts of the past, so that he may find solutions to the present day problems. The dreams are part of a promise by a beautiful lady, the Queen of Dreams. Niramala who believes in the guiding hand of destiny refers to her as the Goddess of Peace Jose in a series of dreams meets several personalities who take him through a guided tour of history. The historic characters include Charles Dickens who takes him through the plight of children; Raja Ram Mohan Roy who takes him through Sati and other practices ; Bentham who takes him through sordid trials and punishments (including a scene at Hath Katro in Old Goa) ; Francisco Luis Gomes who explains to Jose the clash of civilisations ; and Leo Tolstoy who takes him through the war arenas. Jose meets also Mahathma Gandhi and Tagore, who take him through the Road of Peace. The novel has interesting dialogues such as on slavery with Senhor Kamat an International trader ; on Sati with the bhats; on Hindu marriage rites with the priests ; on slaughter of innocents with Herod ; on bombardment and sinking of ships with the Sixteenth Century Conquerors ; on shedding crocodile tears with Nero, among others. All these personalities point to Jose, how their own behavior is been replicated in the modern world. Ismilda proposes to publish another book in the near future titled World Constitutionalism with contributions from twenty five prominent academicians, ex-bureaucrats, world order NGOs , among others from India, Europe, U.S.A, Australia. and Japan. _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
