Have you ever imagined reading a fantastical story that is rooted in Indian Folklore? Epic Legends that could very well be true because there are actual temples built in their names and stories passed down from one generation to other? This is a story about a Demi-God who has around 15 plus temples built in his name in Goa alone. There are hundreds of temples all across the Konkan Coast of India, yet you may not know about him. Ferocious yet kind, demonic yet subtle, merciless yet obedient and all powerful.
Why is he worshipped and loved? When myth meets lore and born out of it is faith, such tales of existence of births, deaths and life till the end of times persist. Our epics were born and replete with such lore, until now.
Why are such epics not written now? What is our contribution to this fantastic ancestral domain? Such have times changed, should we then not - Change for times?
Ashish Gupta-jee is a first time author who is yet to find a natural genre to write about. As with life, there are myriad complexities and simple anecdotes, with such blazing variance, the writing also spans from fiction, lore, mythology to the subtle poetic. Gupta-jee is a IT Engineer who gave up a career in Technology to work with smallholder farmers in India on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems. At present, he spends time in creating large scale-out market-led systems design interventions for farmers in the Himlayan state of Himachal Pradesh. As a part time smallholder farmer in the mountains, he spends time in Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and other places around the world where work taken him. These travels have also helped create the content for the stories that he writes. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as Gupta-jee enjoyed writing them!
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