| Publisher |
Grantha Corporation |
| Publication Year |
2011 |
| ISBN-13 |
9781935677178 |
| ISBN-10 |
1935677179 |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Number of Pages |
112 Pages |
| Language |
(English) |
| Weight (grms) |
145 |
In this thoroughly engaging book, The Purple Lotus and Other Short Stories, the author, Ratna Rao Shekar, explores the intricate details of love, migration, cultural differences, and the like. The author portrays different situations that are set in different countries and times. One of the stories is about an Indian girl with traditional values and the story explores her struggle with a live-in relationship in Manhattan. Another story is based on the life of a young boy who has to come to terms with the fact that his dead father will never return to him. All of these stories and many more keep the reader captivated right through the course of the book.
Ratna Rao Shekar is a famous Indian author and journalist, who has been in this field for about thirty years. She has written for numerous publication houses, some of which are even based abroad. She has written for an Indian magazine named Wow! Hyderabad, which is a very successful magazine. She has also helped to found another magazine titled Housecalls. She is currently working as the editor of both these magazines
Chunhai Fan
Prof. Chunhai Fan received his PhD (2000) from Department of Biochemistry, Nanjing University. From 2001 to 2003, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Alan J. Heeger at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2004, he became a Professor at Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Currently he is the Professor and Chief of the Division of Physical Biology at the same institute.
Prof. Fan’s research interests include nanoscale biosensors, biophotonics and DNA nanotechnology. He has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has written numerous reviews in premier journals including Accounts of Chemical Research, Chemical Society Reviews and Trends in Biotechnology. He has received many awards including the NSFC Award for Outstanding Young Scientists (National Science Foundation of China), the CCS Award for Young Scientists (Chinese Chemical Society) and the CAIA 1st-class Prize for Science and Technology (Chinese Association for Instrumental Analysis).
Chunhai Fan
Grantha Corporation