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About the Author<\/h3>\n

InternatIonally acclaimed for her book, Ballad of Bapu, Vitasta Publishers, 2015, a poetic biography of Mahatma Gandhi], Santosh Bakaya is an academic, poet, essayist, novelist and Ted Speaker whose poems have been translated into many languages and received laurels, worldwide. A die-hard believer in Martin Luther King\u2019s Dream and John Lennon\u2019s Imagine, dreaming of a day when there is \u2018nothing to kill or die for\u2019 and \u2018all the people sharing all the world\u2019, she is the recipient of the Reuel International Award for writing and literature [2014] for her long poem, Oh Hark! and has also been conferred with the Universal Inspirational Poet Award [2016] by Pentasi B Friendship Poetry group and Ghana Government; and The Setu Award [USA] \u2018in recognition of a stellar contribution to world literature\u2019 (Individual Category, 2018).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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About the Book<\/h3>\n

He called his India visit a \u2018pilgrimage\u2019 The American Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr spent one long month in India, calling it the land that demonstrated the efficacy of Non-violence as a successful tool of resistance against bondage, injustice and the power of the gun. Gandhi was the world\u2019s guru who showed the way, leading the common man into contributing in a struggle out of colonialism. He made Civil Disobedience a household word. Martin Luther King Jr gave Civil Liberties a new meaning, ending apartheid in the USA, at a time when it became the world\u2019s strongest nation. In the last 50 years, there has been no more powerful voice against war in the world, it is still Martin Luther King\u2019s stand against America\u2019s war on Vietnam that shines as an example against military might. He is the voice of America\u2019s conscience, still reverberating. Only in Darkness Can You See The Stars is an MLK biography reminding a young India that looks askance at non-violence, what a struggle America waged to give itself equal rights, including sitting rights and voting rights, not so long ago. King\u2019s life is an example of what is doable at the time of utter darkness. That what Gautama Buddha taught India nearly 3,000 years ago still holds good. At the end of Darkness is Light.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[79,69,71],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10876","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-biographies","7":"product_cat-new-arrivals","8":"product_cat-non-fiction","9":"pa_book-author-santosh-bakaya","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/10876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=10876"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=10876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}