Many of the twenty-three short stories which make up this collection are set in India, and a few are set in places such as Tibet, Korea, Japan, China, and Alaska. This collection of stories vividly reflects today's multi- cultural world. The characters are immigrants and world travellers, people who are bridges between cultures, wanderers and searchers who are almost at home in both of the cultures they span.
A brahmin boy loses an earring and long years and continents late finds a secret meaning in this childhood experience... Three school chums, one Hindu, one Muslim, one Christian, meet after years of seeking their own fortunes, and try to rekindle their friendship....A child is abducted in Meerut, and searching for him provokes many questions in the mind of his old grandfather.... A bull stranded between North and South Korea causes a stir and a daring attempt at rescue.... The son of a journalist who died in a war zone seeks the imaginary line between America and Russia in remote Alaska.... A youth falls in love with a girl from a family forbidden by his parents, beginning a chain reaction that sends him across the ocean to find his destiny.... International pen-pals share hilarious and sincere thoughts on having seen yetis in the Himalayas.... In a story se in future Africa a corporate ghostbuster pacifies spirits of colonial conflict which are disturbing big business...
These and the other stories in this collection offer a multi coloured kaleidoscope of shifting perspectives, as old traditions meet modern realities.
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