The Ballads of Niam (2025)
Niam has been burdened with a demanding task and a taxing quest. He has been tasked by his wife, Prisha, to find a name for the five-year-old daughter. He is also on a quest to get the hyena, Ajani, across Paris. These great efforts involve negotiating a trench and a hill. They also span continents and countries and times. Fortunately for Niam, his palm has triple triplet lines and one single strong, prominent fate line. He also has unsolicited help in navigating through non-existence. Fortunately, too, this day is long and, in every version of his life, his company is strong. Maybe the burdens he carries are no match for him.
A Quiver in the Purlieu (2021)
A book flies away as soon as it’s completed, defining a pivotal point in the life-arch of the protagonist. This life-arch also features a banyan tree growing in Canada, a bar in semi-rural U.S.A., a sliver of time in an idyllic, isolated village in India, a bored billionaire playing the stock market, a comic book princess, and an interstellar spaceship journey. All this takes place in a universe that’s ever-expanding.
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The Lives and The Times II (2016)
June is an average man leading an average life, with only his name being somewhat non-traditional. Little does he know, however, that the commonplace task of moving from Bangalore to Delhi will find him lying alone under a single tree on a featureless grassland stretching from horizon to horizon. Unfortunately, the path he is forced to undertake is neither straight nor easy. The heavens are not behaving as they should, the land is not behaving as it should, the jungles are creepy, and a powerful destructive force approaches from the sky above. June must overcome all these, as well as his garrulous friend Anil’s hunger and memory loss, if he is to succeed in joining his family.
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The Lives and the Times (2011)
June is an average man leading an average life, with only his name being somewhat non-traditional. Little does he know, however, that such a commonplace task of moving from Bangalore to Delhi to rise up in the corporate ladder will bring him front and center of some interesting happenings, and in contact with strange people. He is being actively pursued by an organization that believes he is its leader, and is someone who will take the organization and ultimately India to its destiny. The organization is facing a nemesis, a part of the government that is attempting to maintain a status quo. And all this takes place on a stage defined as the Indian subcontinent, which is a land that is alive, quite literally that is.
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