Rooh

When Rooh tells Manav in a bar in New York that he ought to go to back home to the hills in Kashmir he's suddenly thrown into the loop of his past-a blue door white walls and a house at the end of a lane. Soon the seemingly small worlds in which his memories reside coalesce into a giant mass and envelop both his past and present like dark clouds covering a brilliant blue sky.. Two young boys on the cusp of growing up the cruelty of being a refugee in their own country a father who is unable to come to terms with this confusing reality-an undercurrent of pain sweeps through his life. In this stream-of-consciousness novel the protagonist Manav makes a physical and metaphorical journey back to Kashmir and relives the past as a part of the present. Rooh emerges as a deeply touching story of tender but broken people he meets along this journey.