In a FIELD laboratory in New York, Elliot Bauz is overseeing European scientist Regor Endell inject himself with nanobots with regenerative abilities in order to re-grow his left arm that he had lost while testing his scientific creation on himself many years ago. John Roman and Rob Davis chance upon an employment opportunity at The Federation of Industries for Equivalent Leaps in Development, better known as FIELD. Their work primarily entails testing the reaction of nanobots when mixed with the certain chemical compounds, to find the right compound that brings about human cloning. At FIELD, in the particle physics laboratory named Donnerday Farm, scientists have created a heavily engineered machine which is able to manipulate gravitational forces. Scientists from every sphere of science have been invited to witness the last rung of the experiment. 10 scientists, including John & Rob are requested to volunteer to test the change in gravitational pull. In a shocking turn of events, the vacuum chamber explodes but John and Rob manage to survive the destruction only to find out that the explosion was planned. Rob immediately passes out due to the wounds he suffered from the explosion and John is welcomed by a new shock that his wife, Mona, is not who he thinks she is. She confesses her association with FIELD, which leads to her death by being shot by a sniper. Enraged, John falls unconscious to the ground due to a heightened reaction of the evolving virus in his body, unable to chase his wife's killer. Hours later when an unconscious Rob wakes up, he finds Mona lying dead on the floor and John missing from the scene. He searches for John and finds him in the front yard lying naked. Together they go back to FIELD to speak to Dr. Friscott who they think has all the answers and who also happens to be Mona's father. While Dr. Friscott explains John's unique condition to them, all three of them are captured and shot with tranquilizer darts. What ensues next is a fight for survival against adversities in an unimaginable environment of jungle, oceanic waters and snow capped regions where Rob and a seemingly immortal John meet Sylvia who is also gifted with certain abilities. At the end of this fantastical journey John and Rob find a way out of the surreal terrain with help from Sylvia. They come out into the centre of Central Park, New York only to find out that they have been underground all this while. Eager to figure out the mystery of this underground lair and the purpose of putting them in it, they meet Regor Endell. Here they find out that Regor Endell and FIELD are interested in testing the extent of John's regenerative abilities, to succeed in their plans to change the world and establish a new world order. The epilogue takes the reader to a covert meeting taking place in an unknown location among six members of the FIELD committee; a meeting so covert that the members themselves are clueless about each others identities. What follows next is left for the second instalment of "FIELD".
THE STORY: In 1648 India, two Imperial Guards watch from their post as the sun rises for the first time on the newly-completed Taj Mahal—an event that shakes their respective worlds. When they are ordered to perform an unthinkable task, the aftermath forces them to question the concepts of friendship, beauty, and duty, and changes them forever.
The Spirit of the Muse is an illuminating series of intimate conversations with some of the greatest contemporary classical performers, artists and writers. Presented in this unique collection are rare insights into the creative process and responses to questions such as: Does great personal suffering help produce great art? What are the internal processes that precede the surrender to the moment(s) of creativity? How does one balance the imperatives of structure with spontaneity? What is the role of an audience for an artist? How does he or she respond to critics and criticism? Is it useful to be a "good" human being to be a "good" artist? Does the creation of an enduring work of art compensate for a fear of mortality? Ranged in the book are musicians such as Pandit Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin together, Zubin Mehta and L. Subramaniam; painters Satish Gujral and Anjolie Ela Menon; sculptors Amarnath Sehgal and K. S. Radhakrishnan; dancers Leela Samson and Mrinalini Sarabhai; filmmakers Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Mrinal Sen; playwright Habib Tanvir; poet Gulzar; and writers Mahasweta Devi and Indira Goswami.
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