Back To Bliss: A Journey To Zero

Battling against hypocrisies, sadomasochism and pursuits of pop benchmarks of success, he refuses the passion-oriented worldview of karma and life’s purposes. Metamorphosed by compassion, that love’s innocence fills him with, he opts for a journey, taking him away from the stupidity of self-worth, calculated in terms of personal utility, individualistic possession and unfettered consumption.Literary Fiction: Novel: A Love Story In Catalytic Contemporary Culture Of Conflicts.Mayank Mishra, a 34-year old news-editor with a newspaper in an Indian city, takes up the challenges in his personal as well as professional lives; caught between the conflicting agendas of passion and compassion. His passion calls him to battle the hypocrisies, which the popular benchmarks of the societal notions fill up his professional as well as personal universe with. Then, the innocence of love and total intimacy exposes him to compassion, leading him to diametrically opposite life energies, marked by forgiveness. He realizes; he standing beyond the best of the potentials and capabilities of his ‘acultured’ and uninhibited mind is his own God but he needs an unlearning mechanism to delete the wrong programming of his mind.In the contemporary worldview, which paints the hypocrisy of art and lies about idealisms; he templates sketches of heroic moments of personal crises to break free from the suffocation of the optionlessness of pop success, with humble reception of the sanity of simplicity and innocence.How he manages his personal and societal conflicts, rises above his encumbrances and finally picks up a road less traversed for a journey, which makes him feel he has already arrived, sums up the novel.