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Timothy: from faith to inner light
Hardcover
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: Feb 16 2026
Pages: 482
Weight: 1.79
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
TIMOTHY begins in the fields of Raya, Mathura-where faith is not merely belief, but survival.
Raised under rigid religious discipline, Timothy grows up learning that God is to be feared, rules must not be questioned, and life is best endured through obedience. But as adolescence arrives, doubt enters quietly... and then refuses to leave.
When Timothy leaves his village for Delhi University, he discovers new ways of thinking-morality without punishment, courage without arrogance, and truth without ritual. Yet the adult world brings another test: ambition, compromise, and the weight of conscience.
From the corporate corridors of modern India to the austere discipline of the Civil Services, Timothy's journey becomes deeply personal-one that forces him to examine religion, ethics, responsibility, and the meaning of living.
In public service, he encounters the invisible India:
children born into stigma,
women trapped in exploitation,
families whose pain has been priced by markets and prejudice.
As he rises to become District Magistrate in Dehradun, Timothy confronts disasters, politics, and human suffering-until, by the banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh, he experiences a quiet revelation:
Divinity is not above, judging. It is within-an inner light, steady and awake-flowing through the rhythm of existence itself.
A moving and deeply human novel of faith and doubt, pain and compassion, TIMOTHY is the story of a man who stops fearing God... and begins living light.
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