Nachiketas (The Road to The Ultimate Truth)

The question of 'what happens after death' is what Shakuntala Hawoldar explores in this breathtaking piece of work. The author invites you to experience and lives another mystical and spiritual dimension, and to submerge yourself in the deep and revealing story of Nachiketas'.

Shakuntala Hawoldar has undertaken the terrifying and yet liberating task of confronting her own death for the benefit of us all. Death is a kind of growth', she says in her book 'Nachiketes'. 'Growth means intelligence and intelligence means the Light of Consciousness'. This is when the author grabs our attention. Growth, Maturity and Intelligence all finally mean love and compassion for the other, whosever it may be, because the other is also part of our mutual consciousness and growth.

These are eternal messages in the book which tell us unequivocally that 'YOU' are true and immortal. The journey of life is clearly one from lower animality to a higher and greater spirituality. This involves a humanness which Silos speaks of.

Silo, an Argetiian mystic. Reminds us that if we don't live by this magic triangle of goodness, we would only be mere pariahs and outcasts in the world of humans, struggling and striving for a better life.

Shakuntala Hawoldar was born in Bombay, India on September 15, 1944. She lives in Mauritius where she settled in 1968 with her husband and children. Her husband passed on in 1989. She presently stays in Mauritius with her son Siddharth and family. She is an educationist of long story writer in Mauritius and abroad. She has published several collections of poems in Engalish which have been translated into French, Russian, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil.

As Deputy of the Mauritius college of the are over two decades she has pioneered audio visual education to a nascent nation. She is popularly known for her educational productions in the local audio-visual landscape.

She is presently the president of the Mauritian Writers Association, dedicated to building budding literary talents in Mauritius not withstanding the extremely complex nature of the cultural linguistic landscape. She promotes vigorously on several platforms the use of the English language as a common medium of communication in schools and elsewhere. She believes that the English language should be better utilised by on and all since it would help the globalisation process of the Island with decidedly commercial and international benefits.

She enjoys being in Mauritius and sees Mauritius as a flagship for allowing an easy translation of the one world one humanity concept.

She also is the president of Women's Federation for World Peace which is an international non govern mental agency promoting educational and social interests of youth and adolescents in Mauritius fostering and adolescents in Mauritius fostering and counselling parents and teachers.

She has been running the Osho meditation center at her residence for many years opening doors to young and old, seeking the truth of Vedanta of oneness of unity, love and peace.