A Bittersweet Nostalgia(POD)

　　Sometimes we have to escape from our normal surroundings to find out who we really are. A Bittersweet Nostalgia tells the story of a young man who tries to find the courage to journey into the mountains of Northern India to find himself.

　　Due to a vivid nightmare, he falters at the last moment and doesn’t take the journey. One year later, he finally channels his impulses and treks into the mountains of Maharashtra, backpacking through the forests of Bhandavgarh and Tadoba Andhari. On this travels, he experiences many life-changing things, including seeing tigers and crocodiles close up. But something is still amiss in his life. Upon his return to the city, he stumbles across love. But the woman he finds undoes all the good of his personal journey.

　　Finding himself weaker than ever and full of despair, the boy who has now become a man tries to regain his purpose in life and to once again find the path he was meant to take. Will he succeed? A Bittersweet Nostalgia is not a travelogue, but is instead a journey deep into one man’s soul.

作者簡介

　　Vishal Gupta spent his childhood and teenage years in a boarding school in the mountains of Panchgani, India. He graduated from Mumbai University and now lives in Mumbai. “The story is personal and real, but I have used elements of fiction because sometimes narrating the truth indirectly through fiction is better done than any other medium or method.”