BOOKS BY T.

VIJAYENDRA WITH BLURBS

BOOKS BY T. VIJAYENDRA
Price in Rupees

1. Kiki’s Super Duper Explorer 2017 50

2. Variety Entertainment 2016 100

3. Long Shadows 2016 80

4. Requiem for Our Times 2015 100

5. After All It Is Only Him! And Other Stories 2015 70

6. An Intelligent Bird's Guide to the Birdwatcher And Other Stories 2013, 2014 40

7. The Losers Shall Inherit the World 2009, 2010 60

8. Regaining Paradise: towards a fossil fuel free society 2009 120

9. The Teacher and Child labour 2009 50

10. Cuba Without 'isms' (Booklet) 2012, 2016 10

11. Yugant: Capitalism, Global Warming and Peak Oil (Booklet) 2012 5
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TOTAL 685
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BLURBS

1. Kiki’s super Duper Explorer

The Bicycle was invented in 1817 by a German, Baron Karl von Drais, a civil servant to the Grand
Duke of Baden in Germany. On his first reported ride from Mannheim on June 12, 1817, he covered
13 km in less than an hour. The book is part of the celebration of 2017 as the bicentenary year of the
bicycle. The story tells the history of the bicycle, through a story of a girl who rides a time travel
bicycle and visits the historical events.
https://www.scribd.com/document/355957890/Kiki-s-Super-Duper-Explorer
2. Variety Entertainment

Many friends asked me to write my autobiography. They imagined that a half a century of activism
must be full of excitement and inspiring. I know better. Like most lives, it was most of the time
boring. This is borne by many extremely boring political autobiographies.
So I wondered why these friends got these impressions. On reflection, it appeared that it was a
response to some of the anecdotes that I narrated to them. Now, I am a story teller and if there is an
audience, I would often weave an entertaining story. So I have put some of these stories together in
the order of places where I spent parts of my life. The only criterion I have used is that they be all
readable and a bit funny. Otherwise what is the point? Here are all kinds of pieces - memoirs,
events, fantasies, stories and self-images-a sort of Variety Entertainment!
https://www.scribd.com/document/325064685/Variety-Entertainment

3. Long Shadows
Preet has studied at the Waldorf School of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and has been brought up in a
non-competitive, nature-loving atmosphere. This and other circumstances in his life have not
prepared him to cope in a competitive society. Just before her death, Preet's mother, based in the
USA, sends him to Viju in Hyderabad, India, to help Preet settle in life. Viju and Preet travel
together to an Arboreal Homestay, at Kesla in Central India, to a bike-share programme and Roma
gypsies in Paphos, Cyprus, and finally to a ranch in Montana in the USA.

This is a story about Preet learning hands-on about modern political and ecological consciousness
and preparing for a world of tomorrow where ecological restoration is the main agenda of the
world. It would also be a world where no one would be a ‘failure’. It is also about Lorry, Chunni,
Karnika, Sankalp, Soujanya, Konstantinos and Chetana, mentors of Preet, who are actually leading
an alternative life style and careers. In the background is Viju's long life of activism and personal
tragedy.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/310151404/Long-Shadows

4. Requiem for our Times

Like those in his earlier book, The Losers Shall Inherit the World, these articles too were first
published in Frontier and deal with current socio-economic-cultural issues of a diverse range of
topics. These include, Sanskrit, Hinduism, Bhimsen Joshi, Education Manifesto, Euthanasia, Small
States, Population, Cities, Peak Oil and the Politics of Non-Violence. There are also two small
articles dealing with the Passion (Christ’s suffering at the Cross) and the concept of Liberation.
https://www.scribd.com/document/248299868/Requiem-for-Our-Times
5. After All It Is Only Him! And Other Stories

These are stories about social issues with contemporary sensibilities.

The book begins with a story called Joy about the City of Joy - Kolkata. Then there are three stories
which may be called the Requiem series. They deal with alternatives in education, farming and
environment issues. They are somewhat satirical and critical about the way these issues have been
tackled in the last few decades. Instead of critical essays, they have been presented as stories.
The collection moves to death only when our old friend Nora turns a murderer by chance. In the
author’s last book she was the good woman of Bilgram. Here she gets away with murder in three
stories. Then the last but one story is about euthanasia and in the last story the author kills himself!
So these stories are about Life, Death and Requiem!
https://www.scribd.com/document/248298953/After-All-It-Is-Only-Him

6. An Intelligent Bird's Guide to the Birdwatcher And Other Stories

Why are monkeys taking over our land?

What does the bird think of the birdwatcher?

Why does man drink so much water?

What can the city give back to the village?

And read adventures of Nora the girl Mowgli!

These are stories about environment for the young readers and for those who are still young at heart.

https://www.scribd.com/document/183767557/An-Intelligent-bird-s-guide

https://www.scribd.com/document/248307544/An-Intellihent-Bird-s-Guide-to-the-Birdwatcher-and-
Other-Stories

7. The Losers Shall Inherit the World

The U. S. never lost a single battle in Vietnam but lost the war. The book is a series of essays,
looking positively, at some of the losing battles that the Indian people have been waging against
forces of exploitation and obscurantism. The essays, published in the journal Frontier, from
Kolkata, are not written in a polemic or academic style. They are more in the style of ‘education for
the activist’. The idea is to clear up the mess in our minds created by popular notions, beliefs and
theories created by the ruling class and media. Today, when we are in the midst of yet another major
crisis of capitalism, a new generation of activists is coming up. These essays are addressed to them.
https://www.scribd.com/document/189554867/The-Losers-Shall-Inherit-the-World

8. Regaining Paradise: towards a fossil fuel free society

Global warming and peak oil have posed the imminent crisis in capitalism globally. However, most
political activists appear to be unaware of the extent, the inter connectedness and the immediacy of
the crisis. There seems to be a vague but definite collective subconscious that all is not well, and
that, the system is breaking down.
Every crisis of capitalism opens the possibility of far reaching changes. The transition through
which, could be ordered or chaotic. Those societies that are prepared with an alternative have better
chances of an ordered transition. Today, Cuba is best prepared for such a transition.
This book is an attempt to present; in as simple and straight forward a way as possible, the present
crisis. It also offers some solutions that the author believes will help Indians, activists in particular,
to prepare for such a transition.
The book is divided in three parts. The first educates the reader on the nature of the problem, the
second is a vision document for a fossil fuel free future and the third contains practical ideas for
action.
https://www.scribd.com/document/359579529/Regaining-Paradise-towards-a-fossil-fuel-free-
society-by-T-Vijayendra-2009

9. The Teacher and Child labour

This book contains articles on education and child labour. It is mainly addressed to activists
working for elimination of child labour through universalisation of elementary education. The book
will also be of interest to all those interested in education of the poor and working people and those
involved in alternative education. Originally published in Telugu, the present English edition has
been completely revised.

Apart from the eponymous lead article, the other theoretical articles are, Understanding Child
Labour, Pedagogy of the Poor and Beginning in the Middle (emphasising the importance of middle
school). The book covers practical subjects like improving handwriting and the use of the Flat Bed
Duplicator. There is an annotated bibliography of the best books in alternative education. The book
ends with a heart rending short story by Chekhov about an apprentice child worker in nineteenth
century Russia.

https://www.scribd.com/document/359579793/The-Teacher-and-Child-Labour-By-T-
Vijayendra-2009-Price-Rs-50
11. Cuba Without 'isms'
This little booklet tells the story of Cuba in its 'Special period' (1989-1995) when Cuba faced the
end of Soviet support and had a crisis similar to today's world crisis. How Cuba met this crisis
successfully is an inspiration all.
https://www.scribd.com/document/390240986/Cuba-Without-Isms

12. Yugant: Capitalism. Global Warming and Peak Oil

‘If a political activist can be defined as a person who is not only trying to promote the interests of
his own particular group or class but trying, generally speaking, to create a better world, then she
must first have a good understanding of the state of the present-day world. And then Vijayendra’s
booklet ‘Yugant’ is a must-read for her, because it is an excellent short introduction to the subject.’
Saral Sarkar, author of Eco-Socialism
https://www.scribd.com/document/390241165/Yugantha
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