AGNI REGAINS HER HAPPINESS
by Nihal S.Dissanayake
It is a 71 000 word novel specially written to serve as a case study on
happiness. It's objective is to help the readers to appreciate and
understand the resilience of the human mind to get adjusted to any
extreme situation, provided the mind had received a good training.
A Synopsis
Happiness is the ultimate objective of all human endeavors, and is the
result of a series of positive and strategic decisions taken by you during
your life time. It is a self-made castle designed by you, for you to live in,
in accordance with your preferred life styles. The castles of happiness
built by AGNI crumble when she is abducted, drugged and detained in a
ship, anchored in mid-ocean, by an anti-terrorist group.
Agni Regains Her Happiness is a 71 000+ religious novel about
harnessing mind power for happy living. It is about beauty queen AGNI,
and her struggles to regain her happiness, lost in the midst of a series
of incidents which include two attempted suicides, two accidents in her
toilet, a rape, a viral infection, a ghost, a death in her own cabin, followed
by a pregnancy.
The story is a complex web crafted around Agni, detailing her strategies
and gyrations to bounce back, while a super hell is being created around
her ship’s cabin, the setting for the story.
Character development is the main strength of this philosophical novel. It
is in the first person. In tone and style, it is compatible with her levels.
The bricks and mortar used in the foundation of the beautiful edifice of
Agni come from the traditional system of family values. Her knowledge
about Buddhist philosophy adds to the strength and the simplicity to the
architectural designs of her image, devoid of any artificial decorations.
The refinements to her character come from the practices of meditation
and mind control exercises.
The tips that Agni gives to her Guadeloupian matron, for living with Agni’s
family, in an unknown cultural environment explains her philosophy and
attitudes towards life and happiness, develops as a formula for happy
living
The dream about her mother’s tips on protecting and guarding her
pregnancy which she accepts hermetically can be used as a handbook
for young pregnant mothers.
The conflicts in the novel are between constraints and voracious and
ravenous indulgences. It is between the uncontrolled use of the body to
achieve enhanced levels of enjoyment and the cultured discipline of the
mind and the body.
Agni Regains Her Happiness is in the first person. In tone and style it is
compatible with her levels. The decoctions she prepares include all the
known tastes except pornography, because her haughty head does not
permit her to include objectionable words and phrases in her memoirs,
written by her while in detention, in the ship.
On the instructions of her Matron, half-dazed Agni, limps up to her
computer to find out about her new job. Agni’s sick mind agrees with
the new designation, Staff Nurse; but explodes on seeing the necessity
to trim her knee-long lock of hair, nurtured by her family with great pride
Unable to bear up the insult, Agni decides to commit suicide. When her
first two attempts fail, she clips her precious lock of hair, and solves the
problem for good.
After watching the training videos which she classifies as pornography,
Agni studies her list of duties once again carefully. Then only she
realizes that she has to practise the oldest profession. Teetotaler Agni
runs amok and gets drunk. for the first time in life.
Having recovered from the hangover of the drugs, Agni formulates new
strategies to re-engineer her life to regain her lost happiness.
But, how? Based on her own experiences, both at home and in the ship,
she decides to separate her body from her mind. She remembers how her
first client [CO] deflowers and rapes her body while she was unconscious;
and then her second CO dies, his mind escapes, leaving his body on her
own bed.
Agni, the strategist identifies and selects materials to build her castles of
happiness from the environment where she lives. While being confined to
her small cabin, she plans to refine her minds culture by using her off
days to practise meditation which is the vehicle selected by her to
bounce back. because she thinks the ship’s environment is ideal for
meditation.
The appearance of a ghost in Agni’s cabin makes a dramatic change in
the course of the river. Agni reports the apparition to Therese, her
Matron who confides with Agni of her phobia for ghosts The success of
the firewalls built by Agni to protect Therese from ghosts welds a strong
friendship between the two nurses. Therese agrees to help Agni continue
with her project using meditation to heal sicknesses. and requests Agni to
be he tutor in meditation.
Therese whispers to her friend of a new secret exit strategy from the
ship, ‘Why don’t you get pregnant?’ Agni accepts the proposition...
terrorist attack on the ship makes the anti-terrorist cell to disband their
project and discharge all the temporary employees including Agni and
Therese. Therese, an orphan, agrees to accompany Agni and to work in
her father’s medical practice.
Pregnant Agni leaves happily for home accompanied by her friend,
Therese.
About me:Nihal S.Dissanayake
I am a published author with Stamford Lake, and now work on two
websites, one of which is about happiness. I have been editing two
magazines for small business, one in English and the other in Sinhala. I
have been writing regular columns for two Sunday news papers in Sri
Lanka: The Sunday Island and the Sunday Observer.
Agni Regains Her Happiness is my first novel. Here, I have applied the
theories of happiness and sufferings explained in my publications, on a
well defined, representative sample. Agni represents the young girls who
are prone to constant fluctuations in their levels of suffering and
happiness.
The market for this book is the market for happiness, and can be
segmented into three: young ladies planning to climb up the happiness
ladder, but are haunted by their lack of knowledge about the realities of
their bodies and the potential of their mind power.
Young pregnant mothers.
The other segment is the older generation looking forward to their
retirements, planning to complete what they have already failed to
achieve.
Happiness is positive, and has to be cultivated and added; whereas,
suffering is an inalienable part of human life, and needs to be minimized.
Like her matron, ladies in general, could use Agni’s outlook to illuminate
their characters.
. I hold a B.A. in Economics from the University of Ceylon and a Master’s
degree in Business Administration from the Universite de Toulouse,
France.
.
by Nihal S.Dissanayake
It is a 71 000 word novel specially written to serve as a case study on
happiness. It's objective is to help the readers to appreciate and
understand the resilience of the human mind to get adjusted to any
extreme situation, provided the mind had received a good training.
A Synopsis
Happiness is the ultimate objective of all human endeavors, and is the
result of a series of positive and strategic decisions taken by you during
your life time. It is a self-made castle designed by you, for you to live in,
in accordance with your preferred life styles. The castles of happiness
built by AGNI crumble when she is abducted, drugged and detained in a
ship, anchored in mid-ocean, by an anti-terrorist group.
Agni Regains Her Happiness is a 71 000+ religious novel about
harnessing mind power for happy living. It is about beauty queen AGNI,
and her struggles to regain her happiness, lost in the midst of a series
of incidents which include two attempted suicides, two accidents in her
toilet, a rape, a viral infection, a ghost, a death in her own cabin, followed
by a pregnancy.
The story is a complex web crafted around Agni, detailing her strategies
and gyrations to bounce back, while a super hell is being created around
her ship’s cabin, the setting for the story.
Character development is the main strength of this philosophical novel. It
is in the first person. In tone and style, it is compatible with her levels.
The bricks and mortar used in the foundation of the beautiful edifice of
Agni come from the traditional system of family values. Her knowledge
about Buddhist philosophy adds to the strength and the simplicity to the
architectural designs of her image, devoid of any artificial decorations.
The refinements to her character come from the practices of meditation
and mind control exercises.
The tips that Agni gives to her Guadeloupian matron, for living with Agni’s
family, in an unknown cultural environment explains her philosophy and
attitudes towards life and happiness, develops as a formula for happy
living
The dream about her mother’s tips on protecting and guarding her
pregnancy which she accepts hermetically can be used as a handbook
for young pregnant mothers.
The conflicts in the novel are between constraints and voracious and
ravenous indulgences. It is between the uncontrolled use of the body to
achieve enhanced levels of enjoyment and the cultured discipline of the
mind and the body.
Agni Regains Her Happiness is in the first person. In tone and style it is
compatible with her levels. The decoctions she prepares include all the
known tastes except pornography, because her haughty head does not
permit her to include objectionable words and phrases in her memoirs,
written by her while in detention, in the ship.
On the instructions of her Matron, half-dazed Agni, limps up to her
computer to find out about her new job. Agni’s sick mind agrees with
the new designation, Staff Nurse; but explodes on seeing the necessity
to trim her knee-long lock of hair, nurtured by her family with great pride
Unable to bear up the insult, Agni decides to commit suicide. When her
first two attempts fail, she clips her precious lock of hair, and solves the
problem for good.
After watching the training videos which she classifies as pornography,
Agni studies her list of duties once again carefully. Then only she
realizes that she has to practise the oldest profession. Teetotaler Agni
runs amok and gets drunk. for the first time in life.
Having recovered from the hangover of the drugs, Agni formulates new
strategies to re-engineer her life to regain her lost happiness.
But, how? Based on her own experiences, both at home and in the ship,
she decides to separate her body from her mind. She remembers how her
first client [CO] deflowers and rapes her body while she was unconscious;
and then her second CO dies, his mind escapes, leaving his body on her
own bed.
Agni, the strategist identifies and selects materials to build her castles of
happiness from the environment where she lives. While being confined to
her small cabin, she plans to refine her minds culture by using her off
days to practise meditation which is the vehicle selected by her to
bounce back. because she thinks the ship’s environment is ideal for
meditation.
The appearance of a ghost in Agni’s cabin makes a dramatic change in
the course of the river. Agni reports the apparition to Therese, her
Matron who confides with Agni of her phobia for ghosts The success of
the firewalls built by Agni to protect Therese from ghosts welds a strong
friendship between the two nurses. Therese agrees to help Agni continue
with her project using meditation to heal sicknesses. and requests Agni to
be he tutor in meditation.
Therese whispers to her friend of a new secret exit strategy from the
ship, ‘Why don’t you get pregnant?’ Agni accepts the proposition...
terrorist attack on the ship makes the anti-terrorist cell to disband their
project and discharge all the temporary employees including Agni and
Therese. Therese, an orphan, agrees to accompany Agni and to work in
her father’s medical practice.
Pregnant Agni leaves happily for home accompanied by her friend,
Therese.
About me:Nihal S.Dissanayake
I am a published author with Stamford Lake, and now work on two
websites, one of which is about happiness. I have been editing two
magazines for small business, one in English and the other in Sinhala. I
have been writing regular columns for two Sunday news papers in Sri
Lanka: The Sunday Island and the Sunday Observer.
Agni Regains Her Happiness is my first novel. Here, I have applied the
theories of happiness and sufferings explained in my publications, on a
well defined, representative sample. Agni represents the young girls who
are prone to constant fluctuations in their levels of suffering and
happiness.
The market for this book is the market for happiness, and can be
segmented into three: young ladies planning to climb up the happiness
ladder, but are haunted by their lack of knowledge about the realities of
their bodies and the potential of their mind power.
Young pregnant mothers.
The other segment is the older generation looking forward to their
retirements, planning to complete what they have already failed to
achieve.
Happiness is positive, and has to be cultivated and added; whereas,
suffering is an inalienable part of human life, and needs to be minimized.
Like her matron, ladies in general, could use Agni’s outlook to illuminate
their characters.
. I hold a B.A. in Economics from the University of Ceylon and a Master’s
degree in Business Administration from the Universite de Toulouse,
France.
.
