The Author

The Author

Prabhash Karan is an engineer. He worked as a metallurgical engineer, civil engineer, structural engineer, and nuclear power plant engineer. Later, he worked as a software engineer writing computer codes in over two dozen programming languages.  He was involved in developing IBM’s three operating systems.  He speaks four languages and writes primarily in English and occasionally in his native language, Bengali. He writes very simple, targeted, and topic oriented, and makes the topic easy  to get.

He was born and raised in a loving family of eight in a remote village of coastal India. With no electricity and everybody in bare feet, he was raised in his multi-generational ancestral home — open air, earth and water, father and mother. He is a naturalist and a faithful follower of Mother Nature. He loves music and walking. Now over 75 (in 2022), he is a family man who still works fulltime, never been sick for a day in his life. He is an individual who is passionately optimistic about life. To him, life is so beautiful!

He is the author of five books: Nature Is My Teacher; Of Human Nature and Good Habits; Life, Living and Lifestyle; How to Win Nature and Enjoy Good Life; and Health and Medical Care. His forthcoming book is In God We Trust.

Collection of Books by Prabhash Karan

Five books—Nature Is My Teacher; Of Human Nature and Good Habits; Life, Living and Lifestyle; How to Win Nature and Enjoy Good Life and Health and Medical Care—constitute a series that tells the nature-human connection and its implication in our daily life, in the related set of topics.

Nature Is My Teacher reveals the deep emotional connection between human evolution and civilization! Mother has been and will always remain synonymous with love, devotion, and dedication, and giving nature the attributes of a mother, life-giving and fostering, is simply personification as a nurturing mother.
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In the human body, there’s always exists—a human inside! The book, Of Human Nature and Good Habits, reveals that human inside and helps you to develop and promote good personal habits and social skills.
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A life is what is given to us; a lifestyle is what is given by us. Research claims that maintaining only 5 good habits—(1) eating a healthy diet, (2) exercising regularly, (3) drinking only in moderation, (4) not smoking and (5) maintaining a healthy body weight—can not only keep the life vibrant through years but also extend a woman’s life expectancy at age 50 by 14 years, and a man’s by 12 years. The book illustrates these aspects of lifestyles with a special connection between human evolution and civilization!
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Love wins, hate ruins. Human, by nature, loves more readily than hates occasionally. The book explores innate human traits and its relationship with nature.
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The sweetness of wellness is better realized through the bitterness of illness. The book dispenses the first-aid care and preventive measure in many of our common illness.
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Preface

Nature! Mother Nature! She is so ancient yet so novel! So mysterious yet so marvelous! A deep connection between evolution and civilization! She is my life, she is my universe. From birth to death, Mother Nature cradles me in her bosom. She is always in my mind. She is so dear. Nature is my teacher.
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