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Dear all,

My name is Ashish, a first time author. Hoping to reach out to readers interested in military fiction.

Would be grateful if you could review "Sphere of Influence", a military-politico thriller on India's first intervention into Central Asia.

Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.in/Sphere-Influence...

Thank you,
Ashish
ashish.dhongde@gmail.com

Summary:

Sphere of Influence is a piece of fiction on India’s first military intervention in a Central Asian Nation from the point of view of four major and several minor characters based in Tajikistan, India, Russia and China.
The story starts in Tajikistan, with the near successful assassination of its long serving President and the beginning of a foreign supported insurgency centered around its Gorno-Badakshan (GBAO) province.
The Tajik President is operated upon at the Indian Military Hospital in Dushanbe as the interim President seeks help from Russia and the US. But a resurgent Russia has its own plans of who can and who cannot intervene.
With a Russian backed air assault failing, it looks as if the entire half of Tajikistan will be lost for the duration of the winter.
Eventually it is on a hastily collected force of Indian and Tajik soldiers battling to keep the crucial M 41 highway into the GBAO open for reinforcements, that the hopes of two nations rest upon.

Dear friends,
Thanks for all the downloads in the past few days for the Sphere of Influence.
I hope you liked to read it as much as I loved writing it.
Could you review the book on Amazon, GR and recommend it to ahead to readers of fiction. Amazon Link below:-
http://www.amazon.in/Sphere-Influence...

Sphere of Influence has its FB page at: https://www.facebook.com/#!/SphereofI...

Sphere of Influence
Dear friends,

Thank you for your support, Sphere of Influence is now #380 in Paid Books on Amazon.in.


Please could I request you to put in a review on the book at the Amazon site,

Thank you so much for your help and support,
regards,
Ashish

Will you please review my book "Shades of Love and other stories from India" It is available in flipkart.in
I give below the content with a brief outline for each story.

Contents

Why God and Men Drove Her to Sin
[Set in the pre-independent India, a young and aspiring writer visits a brothel where he meets his mother incognito and hears her say that she was married to a god, dedicated to temple service and bore him in sin. 5570 words]

The Witch of Vanchiyoor
[A man born in a family of witchcraft practitioners gets killed by a girl whom he is assigned to kill. 5500 words]

Three Makes a Party
[Against the backdrop of an Indian political party’s annual conference, a young man falls in love with his volunteer leader and he becomes more responsible and concerned when he learns she is an orphan.7780 words]

Love thy Neighbour
[Neglected by her mother, Miss. Iyer, the heroine learns the harsh reality that life does not move according to favourable star conjunctions or matching of horoscopes. 4300 words]

Winners and Losers
[A lady lecturer gets attracted towards her student when he displays his knowledge of religion and temple architecture, and the duo spends a night-long journey to attend a mock interview. 7500 words]

Into the Sea
[Sitting on the parapet wall of a lodge near a water falls, an old professor speaks of history and fate- lines of the humanity. He tries to demonstrate that life starts in watery grooves only to meet his own death. 4000 words]

Shades of Love
[Adventures of a young boy falling in and out of love, as watched by the narrator who finds no clue for the boy’s sudden disappearance. 8000 words]





A Clogged Sluice
[It is a poignant story of a Punjabi mother’s search for her son who is taken by police for interrogation that ends in the death of both. 4000 Words]

An Eagle on His Prowl
[An Indian engineer tells his providential escape from a mining village caught in a conflict zone in Congo. 2500 words]

Waiting for a Flower to Bloom
[A young girl longs for a man whom she has not seen, but when he appears and responds the girl wants him to wait. 5300 words]
My Big Wedding Night
[A girl describes how her parents arranged her marriage to the son of an MLA, who slips out on the wedding night and commits a murder. 3500 words].
Love in India
[Told in the first person, it is a story of love and suffering that culminates in a surprisingly new end. 12,100 words.]

Hi friends,

My book "Sphere of Influence" is on Free Promo on Kindle till the 25th of September.

Please see a brief below and do post a review on AmazonSphere of InfluenceAshish Dhongde


regards,
Ashish

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Sphere of Influence is a military-politico thriller on India's intervention into Central Asia.

The near successful attempt on the President of Tajikistan and the civil was that starts immediately thereafter threatens to cut the country into half. Tajikistan's restive Gorno-Badkhshan province goes into open rebellion, the rebels supported by power hungry bureaucrats in China.

While their President is operated upon in the Indian Military Hospital in Dushanbe, the interim Tajik government reaches out to the EU and the US for help. But a resurgent Russia will allow no one but itself to send additional troops.

All does not go well however, and the Russian backed air assault to take the critical town of Khorugh fails.
The interim government desperately reaches out to anyone who can help and a traditionally isolationist India decides to support in the face of worsening weather and ominous moves by other nations.

As the GBAO looks lost for the winter, it is up to a heavily outnumbered company of a Mechanized battalion of the Indian Army to hold a critical pass on the M 41 highway, the only link into Khorugh, till reinforcements arrive.

Hi Ashish,

The premise of your book sounds interesting. I can review your blog on amazon and on my blog; however, I need a hard copy for that. If that's possible, let me know and mail me at isha.aggarwal21@gmail.com

Hi Isha,

Would a PDF work for you?
There aren't any hard copies yet.

regards,
Ashish
Isha wrote: "Hi Ashish,

The premise of your book sounds interesting. I can review your blog on amazon and on my blog; however, I need a hard copy for that. If that's possible, let me know and mail me at isha.a..."

Isha wrote: "Hi Ashish,

The premise of your book sounds interesting. I can review your blog on amazon and on my blog; however, I need a hard copy for that. If that's possible, let me know and mail me at isha.a..."