Karachi to Malabar

KTM#anodysseyoflove, is a journey of love, lust and discovery of self. The await and journey of Zohal the Pashtun mountain girl in search of her lover and her child's father, fanning continents and generations.It has an element of me, the author in it, a story that I have carried in the womb of my mind for long and disturbingly churning in me since my parents left, both in a span of twelve months. Its only when my mother died that I realised without your parents, the concept of the family was a floating gel that could be shaped any way one wanted. It also made me realize, that the blood thicker than water adage was a farce. The last bond that held our family together was my sister, the string on which the beads of brothers were strung. That broke and the pearls splintered. The angst of it accelerated the completion of my book. Its placed before you in all my humility. Legendary painter Anjolie Ela Menon's paintings had the angst and hopes of my characters and they influenced me greatly in my character's evolving. This is a tribute to her art that made it so enjoyable, although I could not use them for want of copy rights. Anjolie Ela Menon was my super senior in school, whom I have seen once as she passed by on a visit as an artist. The disarming smile on the cherub AEM that I saw that day, still lingers in mind.With Love, SANJEEV PANACKAL THOMAS