Avāk

Description:

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

subjects: Authors, Hindi,  Hindi Authors,  Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages,  Travel

People: Gagan Gill

Places: China,  Manasarowar Lake,  Mansarowar Lake,  Mount Kailas

Times: 20th century