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Srini Chandra

Srini Chandra

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Srini Chandra is the author of 3 Lives, an inspirational fable about the spiritual journey of a New York city cab driver.

Srini Chandra has lived in six cities in threecountries on two continents. He lives in Bangalore now, with his wife and twoyoung daughters. He holds a masters degree from Carnegie Mellon University inthe United States and an undergraduate degree from Indian Institute ofTechnology in India. 

A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>

Story Behind The Book

3 Lives is an inspirational fable about the spiritual journey of a New York cab driver named Ray Cordoza. When Ray is murdered on his forty second birthday, he cries out in anguish - Why me?. In what lies after death, Ray meets the Voice, who he believes to be God. The Voice offers him three lives, each designed of his own choices, in pursuit of happiness. In a strange turn of events, Ray, a Catholic, is born as Anwer Al Safi, son of a devout Muslim, a self made billionaire and the most famous Arab in the world. In his second life, he takes the form of Dr. Jill Clayton, a scientist and teacher at Cal Tech in Pasadena, whose husband is gunned down in a terrorist attack in Mumbai. In his third life, Ray comes back as Tenzin Lhamo, a boy monk who flees his mountain homeland to exile in India. Read about Ray Cordoza's epic quest for bliss in 3 Lives. It will make you wonder about your own choices in your pursuit of happiness.

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An Amazon Top 1000 reviewer writes <div><br /><div>&quot;<span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;">When I started this book, I didn't have extremely high expectations. After all, how much good philosophical discourse can you expect at such a low price? What I discovered within the first few pages was an absolute gem. In a very concise, yet entertaining package the author manages to capture the essence of the struggle for happiness as a soul journeys through a series of very different life experiences. I couldn't put the book down after the first few pages and I intend to read it again. The synthesis of Eastern and Western conceptions of God was the most compelling that I have read or reviewed in recent memory. The development of characters, not through extensive description, but through their personal experiences really pulled me into the story and opened my eyes to perspectives that I had never really examined. I don't recall the last time that I've been given so much insight in such a small number of pages. It is clear that this is a work of deep thought and reflection. Often when I finish a book, I simply delete it from my Kindle so it doesn't clutter my first page. This book will be on my first page for a long time&quot;</span></div></div>