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After letting me pen over a score of articles, though my muse prompted me to enter into the arena of fiction, yet it made me struggle to come up with the opening lines of my maiden novel for over ten days or so before “That winter night in the mid-seventies, the Janata Express was racing rhythmically on its tracks towards the coast of Andhra Pradesh. As its headlight pierced the darkness of the fertile plains, the driver honked the horn as though to awake the sleepy environs to the spectacle of the speeding train. On that, in the S-3, were the Ramaiahs with their nine year-old daughter Roopa.”But then “the train stopped at a village station, as though to disrupt Roopa’s daydreams of ...

At last, a work of fiction in which a Conservative-supporting capitalist is portrayed as a decent, kind and altruistic human being. Almost invariably such characters are presented as being selfish, callous and corrupt. My new novel “The Men in the Marsh” bucks the trend with its empathetic treatment of the main character, ambitious entrepreneur Graham Robinson. The novel traces his life, loves and politics in an entertaining tale which has my usual mix of romance, crime and humour. It also explores Robinson’s passion for bringing about a popular form of capitalism where all workers have a share in the success of the businesses or other organisations which employ them.The action st...

 The largest structure in the universe is called the Vast Wall of Galaxies. Hidden deep near the exact center of this structure is a substructure called the Ovoid Beyond Hope. Within this substructure, time and space are discontinuous and the Ovoid is not navigable by any known means. Many space vessels have been lost in the region creating a vast graveyard. Due to the extreme effects of gravity, ships lose power, and insanity among crews and passengers ensues. An Earthly myth from high-seas travel has been created, oddly enough, from the tales deriving from doomed travel in the Ovoid Beyond Hope.