ISBN: 9789382473664    Publisher: Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd Year of publishing: 2013     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 291        Language: English

Sale of Souls is a remarkable love story of two village youngsters in the backdrop of land acquisition where the gullible villagers are fighting to retain the ancestral village. Roshni, a young advocate, joins the poor villagers to fight the powerful lobby of industrialists and politicians. Samar trying for a peaceful solution to all the issues in the village with his approach of 'sustainable development' finds himself in love with his junior. The story is set in a remote village on the coast of Canara, known for its beautiful environment and bio-diversity, which is earmarked for land acquisition. The story revolves around the sensitive issue of conflict of the poverty vs. development vs. the environment.
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Vidyadhara has been a dreamer, whose dreams took him from a remote village, on the coast of Canara to serve in armed forces, where he sailed the blue ocean in uniform for almost a decade and then, hanging his boots, he worked in corporate houses in India and abroad before settling down in Bangalore. The adventure at sea and on shore, paved his way into a creative world of literature. His passion for reading and a flair for writing culminated in a collection of more than a hundred fabulous poems based on realistic themes, of which a few were published in poetry magazines. Most of them are posted on the poetry website, www.poemhunter.com/vidyadhar2 for everyone to read. This is his debut novel to be published, the idea of which germinated few years back. He has experienced the saga of land acquisition, which facilitated him in completing this remarkable reality fiction in four years.
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