Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 8129119412 |
ISBN-13 | 978-81-291-1941-4 |
No of pages | 206 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Rain Tree |
Published Date | 01 Jan 2012 |
Pavan K. Varma is a writer-diplomat and now in politics, where he was till recently an MP in the Rajya Sabha, and earlier Advisor to the Chief Minister of Bihar. Author of over a dozen bestselling books including, Ghalib: The Man, The Times; The Great Indian Middle Class; The Book of Krishna; Being Indian; Becoming Indian; and Chanakya’s New Manifesto, he has been Ambassador in several countries, Director of The Nehru Centre in London, Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, and Press Secretary to the President of India.
Pavan K. Varma was conferred an Honorary Doctoral Degree for his contribution to the fields of diplomacy, literature, culture and aesthetics by the University of Indianapolis in 2005.
Pavan K. Varma lives in Delhi and can be contacted at HYPERLINK "mailto:[email protected]" [email protected] and Twitter @PavanK_Varma
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Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given only a few months to live, Anand a budding Delhi lawyer, who is obsessed with his own ambition and the politics of his workplace, thinks his life has rock bottom. But then further misfortune strikes: his wife Tane leaves him for his best friend Adi, the owner of the law firm for which he works. As Anand surveys the wreckage of everything that has mattered to him and realizes how misplaced his priorities have been, he is unexpectedly granted a reprieve.
His doctor tells him that the initial diagnosis was wrong and that he is cancer-free. Determined to make the most of his second change, Anand quits his high-powered job and deliberately loses himself in the myriad simple joys of life for which he has never had the time. But when the old concerns and habits begin to creep back, he decides, on a whim, to journey to the remote Bhutanese retreat of Sargssian to think about his future in solitude. Should he renounce the temptations of the city forever? Should he abjure romantic love? Should he spend the rest of his days as a recluse? Or should he start taking the first tentative steps back to a fuller life, which Chime, his Bhutanese friend.
Encourages him to do? As he wrestles with these questions in the shadow of Bhutan's dramatic cliffs and mountains, he runs into the enigmatic Tara, a woman fleeing her own tragic past and his life looks set to take yet another unexpected turn. Action-packed yet contemplative, Pavan K. Varma's first novel is a powerful story of love and loss, despair and hope, chance and destiny and the true meaning of joy and sorrow in every human life.