Somewhere@Nowhere

Somewhere @ Nowhere

by Nikesh Rathi


Description


What would it be like taking a few weeks break and planning an unplanned travel across length and breadth of the country and explore the vastness and diversity of India?

Aditya Khanna is a confused jobless ex-investment banker with an IIT - IIM lineage who does the same - except that nothing goes as he had expected.

There were different kinds of people, each having a different tale to tell. From encounters ranging from meeting a know-it-all sadhu in the Himalayas to getting kidnapped by naxals to meeting a girl on the run whose only aim in life was to die. There were experiences of varied hues and shades in this roller coaster of a journey - experiences that could have made the trip a memorable one; and the experiences that had the power to break and change a person and in the process probably discover oneself.

Will he take it all in his stride and move ahead and laugh at it when he looks back?

Or will it leave him broken and shattered?

Or will he discover his non confused self?

Or will he be left stranded somewhere in the middle of nowhere?  

Or ...

About The Author

The author is an alumnus of NIT, Bhopal & IIM, Lucknow. He has spent parts of his life in different parts of the country – Barauni, Baroda, Bhopal, Bangalore, Mathura, Lucknow, Raipur, Delhi & Mumbai, plus some bits and pieces in several other cities/ towns/ villages. Few of his interests are reading, writing, geography, traveling, watching & analysing movies, cricket, cracking PJs, trying to unravel mysteries of life, universe and everything, etc.

He currently lives in Mumbai and can be reached at rathinikesh@gmail.com