sample chapter

Hello friends, in my last post I promised all of you that in my upcoming post I will share you the sample chapters of new novel, The Cry of Freedom. So, friends wait is over now. From the below paragraphs you can read the first chapter of the novel. If, you like the story or the plot you can buy the same from the leading e-commerce platform Amazon.com. It’s available in both the format, digital (Kindle) and paperback. https://www.amazon.com/Cry-Freedom-Anup-R-Gupta/dp/1549887394 

                                                               DISCLAIMER

This is a complete work of a fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance with actual persons, living or dead, community, business, company, or locals are entirely coincidental.

In 1943 Abraham Maslow an American psychologist proposed a theory “A Theory of Human Motivation” and which is also popularly known as Maslow’s hierarchy of Needs.

According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, a human need can be categorized into five major heads. Namely, physiological need, safety need, love/belonging need, esteem need, and self-actualization need. Each category or level of needs progresses as soon as the fulfillment of the immediate or current level of need.

1965 CE Republic of India

Eighteen long years have been passed India is now an independent nation. After the reward of independence from British crown India has remarkably done well in many sectors. They implemented the judiciary system, political system and education system on the basis of English cultures and traditions. Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of Republic of India brought the major reforms in various sectors. Nehru implemented policies based on import substitution industrialization and approached a mixed economy where the government controlled public sector which co-exists with the private sector. He was a visionary leader and he believed that the establishment of basic and heavy industries stood necessary to the development and modernization of Indian economy. Therefore, the government directly invested money into the developments of iron & steel industry, ports & harbors, coals & mines and generation & distribution of power.

Majority of the Indians are still lacking the basic facilities or so called need. Throughout the day half of population battles hard in pursuit of bread and butter. Due to traditional rituals and old school of thoughts disparity still exists in the country. The impact of plans & policies are only limited to the towns and cities. Richer people are getting rich day by day. Women are not allowed to work outside for their livelihood. Only male members are supposed to work outside. In some cases, only the head of the family is the sole winner of bread for the entire family. Mainly in the northern part of the country untouchability, strict caste system still prevails in the society.

Similarly, in western countries people are attracting towards the consumerism. Due to the fair increment of wages, high level of purchasing power and introduction of retail outlets in every corner of the country consumerism touched the success of peak.

Likewise in India, throughout the day people are battling hard for the living where as in western part of the globe people are buying more and more lifestyle products, primarily electronic household products in order to facilitate their standard of living. High income generating class of the society is able to classify their needs & demands according to their purchasing power. Marketers started designing their various product offerings according to their needs & demands. Thus, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs became the magical tool for the marketers. It facilitated them to extent their product portfolio and services to the segmented as well as targeted consumers.

Within the eighteen years of independence, India has faced three wars in 1947 with Pakistan, in 1962 with China and again with Pakistan in 1965. Whether you lose or win the war, war is always a war. It is never good and it’s an evil to the humanity. In all these wars India has lost number of soldiers and tremendous amount of economic resources. The three wars broke the backbone of Indian economy and thus GDP of the country (Gross Domestic product) fall below the mark.

Majority of the population is depending upon the rain feed agriculture system as there is no meticulous facility of systematic cannel irrigation in various parts of the country. Over rainfall and under rainfall is the key constraint to the overall growth of the agriculture. Floods and drought are the two sides of the same coin. Due to lack of weather system it is hard to predict the climatic condition of different regions. After the reward of independence, poor infrastructure and series of war highly affected the overall growth of the nation. Though government took the various measures in order to improve the condition but the impact remained the restricted.

Narayangarh a large village of Uttar Pradesh, India, which is ideally situated on the bank of river Ganges and it, is surrounded by abundance of green natural vegetation and agricultural fields. It is an autumn season, yellow flowered mustard plants and green wheat plants are dancing against the flow of the north wind. Buffaloes are busy in taking baths in a nature made ponds beside the railway tracks. The same railway track connects the eastern Uttar Pradesh with western Uttar Pradesh. Apart from the nature made ponds many man made pond can be witnessed here and there at both sides of the railway tracks. Village is heavily guarded by splendor of beautiful natural sceneries. The sceneries consist of banyan tree, babul tree, and mahua tree (butter tree). Far at the end of the village very old yet beautiful Kali Mandir (goddess Kali temple) is situated. Occasionally we can hear the sound of bells of Kali temple due to the strike of splendid speed of the air.

Friends, I am looking forward for your comments and reviews and  in coming days I will share more with you (next chapter).

Happy reading

Anup R. Gupta