We would like to call this book a sequel to our early work, The Call of Abraham. Here, in Hagar: the Matrix, Matriarch and Paradigm the same author takes a deeper look into the great matriarch Hagar's life and its profound socio-spiritual content. He uses the word “matrix”, as in the previous work he used “commune”, to evoke a special meaning in the narrative: the womb of the mother Hagar. He develops realms of understanding and creative sharing among different Semitic religions. Hagar, the black wife of Abraham, who was originally gifted to the prophet by his first wife Sarah has a powerful subaltern perspective to look upon too. Such a deconstruction would potentially wound the foundations of hatred artificially created and maintained among the Semitic faiths. We hope greater readings of Hagar's legendary history would be inspired by this work.read more>>

Bosnia Herzegovina's former President Alija Izetbegovic called his masterly philosophical work Notes from Prison, “an escape to freedom” – an escape of mind and thought. He jotted down these notes while he was being detained for political reasons at Foca prison in Sarejavo, during the Communist regime. He had to smuggle out all the 13 notebooks with the help of a fellow prisoner. This is a book of deep silent discussions with his own self: in thousands of wisely aphoristic notes, he ponders over on almost everything about life – its possibilities, crises, dilemmas, freedom, love, literature, science, democracy, Communism, Nazism, morality, religion, Islam and lot more.