Author Introduction
Jagdish (Jack ) Bhatt is retired-professor of earth and marine sciences.He brings an impressive over forty years of academic experience as he taught at various colleges in the United States.\n\nDr.Bhatt is author of nearly 60 publications including seventeen books encompassing the scientific and literary fields. As a personal note, he tells us, \" Excellent educational and professional opportunities and the international up bringing during the formative years in India, US and Britain have been major sources of enrichment of my life, albeit my worldview. I am indebted to many people who showed me the path.\"\n\nBhatts timely and outstanding publications include the following:\n\n(1) \" Human Endeavor : Essence & Mission/ A Call for Global Awakening \" points the way toward achieving an enlightened global civil society in the 21st century and beyond.\n\n(2)\" Rolling Spirits: Being Becoming \" is a trilogy comprising over 500 inspiring poems to explore, to introspect and to reflect \" Who we are and what we can become.\"\n\n(3)\" Odyssey of the Damned: Revolving Destiny is a novel that dare to test the very mettle of human courage on encountering the super-intelligent aliens, the Gnocians from the far away galaxy, and much more.\n\n(4) Parishram: Journey of the Human Spirit\" boldly declaring, \" Between birth and death, theres a mountain named Life and we must conquer it with our shear human action,that is by way of \"Parishram\" per se.\n\n(5) Triumph of the Bold: A Poetic Reality examines major historic and contemporary societal issues within the framework of techno-driven global village civilization in the twenty-first century and beyond. We shall qualify only to be called, \" Triumph of the Bold,\" if we together can build a better world of tomorrow beginning as of today. The quest for the noble mission has been defined through the ages. But, the question is do we have a collective will to meet the challenge? \n\n(6) Theater of Wisdom: Essays on Vedic Thought, Human Existence & Futuristic prospects is a thought-provoking,truth-seeking and futuristic in its vision. It boldly affirms in the rational power of humanity to meet its challenges and evolve toward an enlightened society of the future. \n\n(7) Magnificent Quest: Life,Death & Eternity is a collective odyssey of humanity to grasp the reason why are we here and what is our purpose of existence and what we seek to understand what is beyond life and death via regia poetic imaginations and meditation mode.\n\n(8) Essence of China: Challenges & Possibilities explores the glorious past,contemporary issues and futuristic prospects of China.\n\n(9) Essence of India:A Comprehensive Perspective brings to the readers an awesome 5000 years of a continued civilization beginning with the oldest human thought to the modern day largest democratic nation and with an eye on the future. \n\nDr. Bhatts literary publications are aimed at the younger generations of the 21st and beyond to awaken their moral and rational strengths,thus to become an asset in the making of an enlightened society. Bhatts books are thought-provoking, exciting and worth exploring for they collectively offer deeper understanding, therefore great insight of our world, ourselves as humans becoming and our future. In this respect, Bhatt writings have been greatly driven by his passion-- to what the great thinker Socrates has so succinctly put it, \" Unexamined life is not worth living.\"\n Chandravadan Chimanlal Mehta, also referred as C. C. Mehta or Chan. Chi. Mehta, was a Gujarati playwright, critic, self-writer, poet and travel writer, based in Vadodara.\nBorn: 6 April 1901, Surat\nDied: 1992\nLanguage: Gujarati\nNotable awards: Padma Shri (1962); Sahitya Academy Award (1971); Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (1984)\nAwards: Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Theatre - Playwriting (Gujarati)\nBooks: BÄndha gaį¹hariyÄį¹