Flight of the Golden Eagle and Other Stories

About the BookIn a world that is witness to two contrary pressures - one that destroys the connect with history and the other that strives to forge and mend that very connect - men and women live their lives with and sometimes because of the scars that this tussle leaves on them. Can a fragment of memory - painful and incomplete - still be that essential link with one's past that can embolden one's existence in the present and propel it into the future? And does not the past impinge on the senses in more than one way? These stories want to be the ways in which such interaction takes place ways that allow identity to crumble to dissipate to fluid particles and then to re-form.About the AuthorThe author has been a student of English Literature and Journalism and finds inspiration in nature. She is a member of the Indian Administrative Service and has worked in Kalahandi district of Odisha in the early years of her service where she brought out Banasthali a pictorial book on the natural and cultural wealth of Dharmagarh sub-division and worked on an alternative-livlihoods endeavour for tribal youth called Tulika. She has also worked in Haryana where her initiatives - Kalam Express Arogyam and a pictorial book called Jind - Flowing Waters Forgotten History - kept her occupied.Her book of short stories for children - Thirteen Loops - Tales from Kalahandi - was published in January 2020 and Vortex a small attempt at verse in early 2021. At present she is posted at the Academy in Mussoorie where spring's clarity and the rain's mists blend into the stark winter line that dissolves into sombrous rose hues over the blue hills every day becoming an awakening.