Ebook {Epub PDF} Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev Balasubramanyam

 · Praise for Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss “Professor Chandra is a wonderful character—stodgy, flawed, contentious, contemptuous—yet vulnerable, insecure, lonely, repentant, and ridiculous enough to win our sympathy In the end, Balasubramanyam’s novel is a sort of Christmas Carol for a new age.”—NPRBrand: Random House Publishing Group.  · Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev Balasubramanyam has an overall rating of Positive based on 7 book reviews.3/4(7). Praise for Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss “Professor Chandra is a wonderful character—stodgy, flawed, contentious, contemptuous—yet vulnerable, insecure, lonely, repentant, and ridiculous enough to win our sympathy In the end, Balasubramanyam’s novel is a sort of Christmas Carol for a new age.”—NPR/5().

Rajeev Balasubramaniam ★★★★★ /5 Given the sadly limited time I have for reading, I seldom, if ever, pick something up without prior intent—usually motivated by referrals or my own favorite author lists. Yet, I inexplicably picked up this book prominently displayed in the 'New Arrivals' section of my local library: not having heard of the title or Professor Chandra. In Rajeev Balasubramanyam's novel, Professor Chandra Follows his Bliss, about a man's golden years' journey to finding himself, Oxford Professor P. R. Chandrasekhar takes a course in self-awareness at California's legendary Esalen Institute. Tucked between the mountains and the Pacific Ocean, Esalen is gifted with the relaxing sounds of sea. Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev Balasubramanyam has an overall rating of Positive based on 7 book reviews. Rajeev Balasubramanyam delivers a comic delight as his year-old scholar sets off to find inner peace The comic tone of the novel provokes many laughs, but it conveys with a real sense of the author's compassion.

Rajeev Balasubramanyam holds degrees from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a PhD in English and Creative Writing. His first novel, IN BEAUTIFUL DISGUISES (Bloomsbury ) won a Betty Trask Prize and was nominated for the Guardian First Fiction Prize. His long-awaited second novel, THE DREAMER (Harper Collins ), was based on his Ian St. James award-winning story of the same title. In Rajeev Balasubramanyam's novel, Professor Chandra Follows his Bliss, about a man's golden years' journey to finding himself, Oxford Professor P. R. Chandrasekhar takes a course in self-awareness at California's legendary Esalen Institute. Tucked between the mountains and the Pacific Ocean, Esalen is gifted with the relaxing sounds of sea lions as they frolic in the tide, truly dark night skies resplendent with millions of twinkling stars, and hot mineral springs to relax the body and mind. Brilliant, pompous, and baffled by the world outside his Cambridge study, Chandra is forced on a reluctant quest to America to find himself and his family. Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss is searingly funny, uplifting, and wonderful.”—Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand and The Summer Before the War.