Awaak meaning Speechless, Dumbfounded, Awe struck, Almighty, A walk in circumambulation Awaak A Journey To The Holiest Mountain of Hindus and Buddhists, The mythical Mount Meru, the centre of the world, A Holy Tibetans site held captive by the Chinese A journey of last rites of a dear one A final act of coming bare and clean of one’s Karma, one’s ego A journey of a believer, done in the company of texts, ranging from modern thinkers to saint poets old and new An attempt to create one’s own time and space in the process of a pilgrimage A multi layered text that defied common notions of an elegy//a political reportage /memoir/ travelogue Awaak sold out its first Hindi edition in 8 months

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