Chapter 1: The Night Journey
The applause had died hours ago, but its echo lingered in the empty auditorium like dust settling after a storm. The cri...
Chapter 2: The Dream of Cards and Dice
The bus station materialized around him at dusk, though he could not remember the journey there. The familiar ...
Chapter 3: The Arithmetic of Exhaustion
Kaurav found himself calculating the days like a prisoner marking time on a cell wall. January 3rd had been t...
Chapter 4: The Question Without Answer
The discomfort had lasted for hours after that first viewing, a persistent ache like hunger or homesickness. A...
Chapter 5: The Weight of Names
The bus swayed through the Karnataka night, and Kaurav found himself thinking of that evening two years ago when every...
Chapter 6: The Thousand Books
The memory of that first lunch came to him now as the bus climbed through the Ghats. Roni-da had listened to his poems ...
Chapter 7: The Plural Self
The name had revealed itself to him gradually, like a photograph developing in solution. Kaurav was not singular but plura...
Chapter 8: The Red Sticker
The phone call had come sixteen days later, as Kaurav sat at lunch in Bangabhavan, Delhi. On the television screen above t...
Chapter 9: The Silent Grandfather
The bus wheels hummed against asphalt, and Kaurav found himself thinking of his grandfather's silence. During the S...
Chapter 10: Hansadhwani at Two AM
Kaurav belonged to the first generation of this millennium to witness revolution centered on agricultural land. His...
Chapter 11: The Director's Card
The applause had died away, but Kaurav remained on stage, holding Ishit's card between his fingers. The weight of it ...
Navaratri, meaning "nine nights," is one of Hinduism's most significant festival...
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Krishna is also used in the sense of "karshate iti Krishna"—meaning one who attracts. In Yoga philosophy, he is the presiding deity of the Ajna chakra. He attracts and pulls up Arjuna, who is stuck in the Manipura chakra. This is the essence of the Gita in Yoga philosophy.