Crossing over

A master writer reflecting on his illustrious career on his 70 th birthday, a half-gold mongoose
searching for perfection across ages, an aging painter trying to outdo the emerging craft of
photography, an avatar choosing to go back to his reality, a government clerk who stumbles upon
the theory of everything, a mysterious lady doomed to kill anyone who have her, an autoriksha
driver haunted by the memory an accident that cost him his daughter- Crossing Over deals with
stories of people transcending the outer layers of life and going deeper in search of meaning. As they
cast aside the crosses of their lives and embark on new journeys their lives become treatises on how
the stream of life finds a way around each obstacle and run through the many paths of redemption
before it finds the ultimate salvation. With themes ranging from unabashedly nostalgic to
mundanely realistic and from engagingly mystical to unapologetically absurd these stories seek to
make the reader reaffirm his faith on life and literature.