Hi-Tech Shiva and Other Apocryphal Stories: An Academic Allegory.

Van Nuys, CA Apsara Media for Intercultural Education, 1991. Paperback First Ed, unstated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Ed, unstated. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use; binding square and secure; text clean. Just a hint of wear to extremities; mildest rubbing; faint staining at outside edges. Remains very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 230pp. Paperback. The Hindu Gods and Goddesses conduct fieldwork on Earthculture, trying to determine what went wrong with their creation before it must be destroyed. In Hi-Tech Shiva, they are actually Western scholars disguised as heavenly researchers using state-of-the-art documentary techniques and technologies. Data collected from courtesans and swamis presented at soirees lead to hearings in the Heavenly Assembly when even the highly respected Viswanathan, the creator of the universe, finds himself under the gavel of the portly judge, Lord Ganesha. Squabbles over methodology and ethics lead accusations to fly and much of the action parodies academia, exposing the foibles and fallacies of university politics, culminating in a unique vision of entropy. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.