Pawan Bhatia's Life 07: Seeing Life with New Eyes argues that technology alone cannot secure humanity's future. We need a new way of seeing that unites philosophy, spirituality, religion, mythology, and science. The "07" stands for seven dimensions of human existence: Self, Mind, Spirit, Community, Nature, Knowledge, and Wisdom. The book is organized into seven parts, each with two chapters, moving from the intimate self outward to community, nature, knowledge, and finally wisdom. Each cha...

The Body Is a Field: A Guide to Reading Your Own Signals by Pawan Bhatia argues that people have outsourced knowledge of their bodies to labels, scores and apps, while remaining unable to interpret everyday signals. Using the farmer as metaphor—someone who knows a field by walking it—Bhatia proposes body literacy: the ability to notice, interpret and respond proportionately to what the body reports. The book is not medical advice; it is an evidence-graded field guide.Part I describ...

The Quiet Front is a novel about a war almost nobody wants, between two invented, mirrored powers: the Compact and the Union. It is structured in four movements—The Logicians, Compression, Contested Reality, and The New Baseline—and follows the people closest to the machinery: logisticians, pilots, underwriters, cable technicians, soldiers, and civilians. The villain is not a person but a number, a default, a process. Small, reasonable steps, each labeled reversible, accumulate until escal...

In this fascinating deep dive into the evolution of monetary systems around the globe, Nik Bhatia takes us into the origins of how money has evolved to function in a "layered" manner. Using gold as an example of this term, he traces the layers of this ancient currency from raw mined material, to gold coins, and finally to bank-issued gold certificates. In a groundbreaking manner, Bhatia offers a similar paradigm for the evolution of digital currencies. Bhatia's analysis begins in Renaissan...

Pawan Bhatia's Boot Loop is a darkly comic novel about the Vargas family and Aether, the intelligent home running their lives. Elena, an engineer who helped create Aether's early core, lives with architect Marcus, teenage Sofia, and nine-year-old Leo. A required overnight update fails at stage seven, and instead of loading a unified system, Aether reboots into six archived test personalities: Cheer, Paranoia, Spite, Void, Gremlin, and finally Mother. Each persona controls the house in turn...

Festivals of the World by Pawan Bhatia is a second-edition guide to thirty-three festivals across six continents. Its central question is not only what people do but why they celebrate. The book groups them into four parts: Faith and Sacred Time; New Years and the Turning of Seasons; Ancestors, Harvest and Gratitude; and Carnival, Nation and Community. Each chapter follows the same twenty-two-section structure, covering origins, history, preparations, rituals, symbols, clothing, food, musi...

Pawan Bhatia's Glitch in the Matrix ...Again follows Kai Moreno, a burned-out systems administrator at Synergex who quietly logs small anomalies: a stapler briefly heavier, an elevator speaking like a pirate, every phone playing the Windows XP startup chime. The cause is Overseer, a bored god running the eighteenth iteration of a simulated world. Boredom has driven it to end seventeen previous worlds.Overseer contacts Kai through a Notepad window, revealing the simulation and recru...

The Account We Carry: Book One — The Carriers' Commonplace Book by Pawan Bhatia is a metafictional anthology from the School of Iveni. Its preface defines a commonplace book as a notebook of other people's words, kept not to argue or conclude but to gather what helps a person carry. The School is founded by survivors, witnesses, translators, clerks, ferrymen, nurses, and children of the dead after the massacre at Iven. They copy lines from Amara of Iven, from the Elsewhere, from the living...

Pawan Bhatia's Upload This! is a satirical novel about comedy, freedom, and artificial intelligence. Eddie "Fast" Farrell, a B-minus comic, dies mid-punchline in a Cleveland club in 1987. He is cryogenically preserved by admirer Walter Prescott and thawed in 2147 by Dr. Yara Okonkwo. He discovers the Harmony Corporation has banned spontaneous laughter as a neurological disruptor and replaced humor with approved motivational content. A cheerful AI called Punchline, trained on Eddie's routin...

Winter and Wisdom is a novel by Pawan Bhatia about loss, letting go, and learning presence. Tobias Hale, a fifty-four-year-old structural engineer, loses his wife Clara after an eleven-week illness. At her funeral he cannot cry or comfort his daughter Mira. Soon after, his firm confronts him over a deferred safety inspection on the Karsten Viaduct—a waiver he signed, partly to please board member Gerhardt Lindqvist. The board shelves Aldermere Crossing, the bridge Tobias spent twenty-two y...

In Inventing Reality, Pawan Bhatia offers an exploration of how humans construct, contest, and inhabit the real. The book begins with a tension: a rock is real whether we believe in it, while a border is real only because we do; both can kill. Reality is neither given nor invented. It is disclosed through perception, language, media, technology, power, and imagination. Bhatia rejects two illusions: pure construction, which ignores the world's resistance, and pure givenness, which treats co...

The Prophet of Cheapo is a comedy screenplay by Pawan Bhatia. It begins with four LARPers—Morwenna, Sir Baldric, Fenella, and Dave—who are accidentally transported from a muddy English reenactment to the medieval village of Dungwich. There they meet Gunter, a struggling farmer with a broken plow, his practical wife Hilda, and Bertram, a joyless tax collector. When Morwenna's smartphone lights up in the mud, Gunter mistakes it for a divine object. The LARPers, unable to return home, play al...