ODE TO VINES IN THE BACKYARD

DARLING This novel is a result of a sense of wonder. Author, the protagonist in the story, chanced to meet this fantastic young rich man, many years ago in Ludhiana, a city in Punjab He found him as a superb conversationalist, factory owner and exporter of Jackets the Russian Army men posted in the Siberian border, a candid and interesting person in many ways. Later he met him at intervals of several years in between. He never found it interesting or necessary to know whatever happened to this man during the long intervals. Later his sudden disappearance from the scene of action caused him unease. That disturbed him. He wanted to discover the man who laughed at anything in life. He resolved to seek and know about the man who may or may not have survived the agony of his tragedy that made him go incognito or get him and his wife killed by nature or by men or by mistake.. Our protagonist Author, on his own sought him wherever he went as a documentary photographer or for pilgrimage or for fun. As was unexpected his quest for missing Bharagava, the saga of his pain he suffered, he discovered himself too that gave a new meaning to his own story. Well, nothing survives, except verdict on the dead.