Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Two Pronouns and a Verb



Two Pronouns and a Verb is about the perennial question: Who am I? It’s also a triangle of love and anger, with two childhood friends Arjun, the doubter, and Dhruv, the believer, at two vertices, and Eva of variable love torn between the two. Dhruv wishes to bend the universe to his beliefs, Arjun wishes to interrogate himself till the universe is revealed within himself. Eva just needs their love to survive. Two Pronouns and a Verb draws parallels from ayurveda, the ancient Indian science of life. It’s the story of friends unspooling their destinies along separate paths, crisscrossing through memory, yearning and near-greatness, as each struggles to answer their first and last question.

Kiran Khalap, has one career (brand consultant) and three pursuits (writing, rock climbing and spiritual evolution). Kiran started his working life as a school teacher in a school inspired by J. Krishnamurti, the Indian sage, in Benaras, the ancient city. He lives with his wife Rajashree, in Mumbai and Nagaon, 120 kms. south of Mumbai. Kiran won the Indo-UK Asian Age Short-Story Writing competition in 1995. His first novel Halfway Up the Mountain was published in India in 2003 and in the UK and US in 2005.