Writers and artists who are fathers; terrorist mothers-in-law; how to face the stealing of your children (including your book-children); this eclectic book on fatherhood and Mangalore from the author of the celebrated novel "The Revised Kama Sutra" is full of surprises, passion, poignancy, It is for the reader who believes, with Franz Kafka, that "a book should be an axe for the frozen sea inside us." Though mainly on the theme of fatherhood, the book also strays into the world of terrorist mothers-in-law, the strange world of Mangalorean Catholics, and the story of a Dutch artist-dreamer father.