Three men, in an attempt to shatter the run-of-the-mill experiences of travel, embark on a quest for an adventure of a kind that made them crazy with delight. "Three Men in (SeA) Southeast Asia," Revised & Refurbished Edition is a delectable record of an enjoyable journey that reveals the joie de vivre of the three comrades on an odyssey in their early twilight years. These men seek to relive their youthful past, inspired by the love of people, nature, art, culture, history, and architecture. They set out on a trip to Southeast Asian countries. 'A must-have Travelogue, for any serious traveler' This book explores the incredible places with a vibe that takes the glamour of these countries to a whole new level, consequent to the extensive research incorporated into it with revelations of the very origin the universe poured on to him with divine inference.

A compelling, illuminating and evocative history of Singapore—the world's most successful city-state. In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After the Second World War and a sudden rupture with newly formed Malaysia, Singapore found itself independent - and facing a crisis. It took the bloody-minded determination and vision of Lee Kuan Yew, its founding premier, to take a small island of diverse ethnic groups with a fragile economy and hostile neighbours and meld it into Asia's first globalised city. Lion City examines the different faces of Singaporean life - from education and health to art, politics and demographic challenges - and reveals how in just half a century, Lee forged a country with a buoyant economy and distinctive identity. It explores the darker side of how this was achieved too; through authoritarian control that led to it being dubbed 'Disneyland with the death penalty'. Jeevan Vasagar, former Singapore correspondent for the Financial Times, masterfully takes us through the intricate history, present and future of this unique diamond-shaped island one degree north of the equator, where new and old have remained connected. Lion City is a personal, insightful and definitive guide to the city, and how its extraordinary rise is shaping East Asia and the rest of the world.

This novella, “Palace Smash into Slum” holds aloft the value for humanity, in this world ravaged by wars, loss of humanism, induced by barbarism, hence suffering with corona now. Delineating, the change of heart, that happens gradually in a Zameen family still living in the hangover of its past old glory, ‘this novella’ captures the sequence of events and also the transition of a royal mind-set to love and care for all human beings, through the life of Marudhu Pandiar, the elderly Zameendar, his son Anbu Chezhian and the latter’s wife Tamilselvi. The characters from lowest rung of the society Kripai Amma, Anjalai, Kanniappan, and Munusamy – are described in contrast with the Zameen characters, in such a way that these society’s lower rungs display of timely action pulls down the curtain divider, as all of them mingle with each other, to raise to the occasion as per situation demanded, results in demolishing barrier-division, of inequality. It is relevant to all times, stressing as it does, the precedence of humanism over all man-made divisions in the name of caste, religion, creed and economics.

Laos, Paul T. Cohen.