"Monsoon Tango: A Love Beyond Boundaries" is an enchanting and uplifting novel that takes readers on a remarkable journey of friendship and love, spanning continents and navigating through life's highs and lows. It artfully weaves together a tapestry of real-life incidents that add depth and authenticity to the narrative. At its heart, the story revolves around the profound bond between two men: Abhi Kumar, a student from India, and Robi Bascom, an African American student. Their paths converge at a prestigious university in the United States, bringing together their distinct backgrounds and cultures. Their friendship becomes an unbreakable thread that defies geographical boundaries and sets the stage for a series of extraordinary adventures, including their foray into a start-up in India. Amidst their enthralling journey, a captivating love story unfolds between Abhi's beautiful cousin sister, Gayatri, and the charismatic Robi, within the confines of a culturally conservative setting. The resistance they face from Gayatri's parents adds a compelling layer of tension, leading to heartbreak and strained friendships. However, fate takes an unexpected turn, and their relationship is ultimately consummated in a sensational manner, transcending continents once again. What sets this story apart is the immersive experience it offers. The author, inspired to capture the true essence of the ambiance and cultural nuances, wrote the story while physically present in all the important locations. This approach infuses the narrative with an authentic and palpable sense of place, enriching the reading experience for audiences. The book seamlessly blends heartfelt emotions, thought-provoking themes, and moments of sheer delight, making it a truly compelling read from start to finish.

‘To say that, in fact, writing has been no more than a way of talking about the body and nothing but the body...’ Lost to the meaning of her life, a foreign writer arrives in Delhi seeking the wordless company of strangers. Delhi is an exploded sun, bleeding everywhere its untrammelled chaos: the feral dampness of bus fumes; the suicidal rush of scooters; the autorickshaw seats impregnated with thousands of odours—nauseous accretions of India’s muddy human tide. The men with their stinking bidis rule as masters and the women remain walled in by centuries of tradition. The author, infatuated by a quiet lady on the street, begins to seek the untamed and undiscovered country that lies below her sari, the delicate throbbing hidden beneath her silence. As she rediscovers her voice and the ability to write a story, and as monsoon arrives, low and heavy-bellied, washing away the concrete barricades of custom, a secret encounter in a music store opens up an ancient darwaza of forbidden pleasures. Bursting with sharp irreverence, Indian Tango is a story of fleshly transgression and unlikely liberation in the patriachopolis of New Delhi.

Two young Vietnam vets are recruited by the President and asked to locate the kidnapped daughter of a Texas U.S. Senator in Mexico. She was kidnapped by Mexican drug cartel leader Carlos D'Arcy who operates in the Yucatan and Caribbean State of Quintana Roo. The two army vets are told to terminate D'Arcy. He is the main importer of Heroin from The Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia to the United States. The Heroin is killing large numbers of Americans and the President wants the head cut off of the drug cartel snake. One of the vets suffers from PTSD. It didn't have that name at the time. The novel takes place in the late 1960's and the team has to complete both mandates from the President using their battle hardened techniques and equipment that was available at the time.

An edited volume by Monsoon Assemblages, a European Research Council funded research project. The book presents the methods that Monsoon Assemblages has evolved for engaging the monsoon, a globally connected weather system, as a coproducer of urban life and space in South and Southeast Asian cities. It challenges views of climate as an inert backdrop to urban life, instead suggesting that it is materially and spatially active in shaping urban politics, ecologies, infrastructures, buildings and bodies. It combines critical texts with cartography, photography and ethnography to present the project’s methodology and its outcomes and invites urban practitioners to think differently about space, time, representation and human and non-human agency. It offers intra-disciplinary, intra-active methods for rethinking human and non-human relations with weather in ways that meet the challenges of climate change and the Anthropocene.

A historical chronology of the U.S. Navy Seabees in Vietnam during 1967. Data was researched from Battalion Cruisebooks and Deployment Completion Reports, Stars & Stripes Newspaper, All Hands magazine as well as personal stories and memories from the men who served 'boots on the ground'