Shangri-La and Other Stories

By Dani Darius

In these impressionistic and mystical stories and sketches, identities flow into one another in the drag of timeoften unknowingly maintaining adversarial relations to each other in the general symbiotic culture.
Here you find an aging escort sipping on gin-n-juice in a hotel in McLeod Ganj; a quaint brass-deity come haunting an Indo-Tibetan youth; a poacher, called Bucephalia, hunting down a musk deer in a dale in Kashmir; a Daoist shrine-keeper casting a Vedic horoscope. Whether it is the Buddha emerging from a veil of mist or the surge of humanity converging in the Kumbha-Mela, it takes you to the seductive realm of intertwined patterns of destiny which nevertheless transcends space and time, cultural and religious boundaries.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Oct 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781482812961

Dani Darius

Dani Darius spent his childhood in Calcutta and subsequently moved to Delhi. There, for a short while he taught comparative economic development in a campus col-lege. His interests range from heterodox Indian thought and Tibetan Art to Hats and Perfumes. He works as a soccer coach in Noida.

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