

On the river banks, he meets Zehra, a poetess/nautch girl, falls in love, rescues her from the brothel, instils hope of a better future together. The story follows the semi-autobiographical young Paris-based writer Nishant who, haunted by Jaya’s memory (part-real, part-fantasy), undertakes a journey along the Ganga, and plans to write a book on it. Jaya Ganga, an instance of automatic writing, is an “empirically, realistically verifiable fictional search,” he says. Fiction and poetry meets memory, travelogue, reportage, letter, history. With Ganga as a narrative thread and metaphor, Singh marries spirituality with surrealism. Among other things, he met people who couldn’t pay Rs 150 to cremate the dead, so they tied it to a stone, and when the river receded, the bodies surfaced, and the dogs attacked - it isn’t just a post-COVID reality.

Ganga has been very kind to me.” The journey “showed (him) the Hindu underbelly the Western rationalist had consigned to the dustbin of history”. “No sadhu, no guru I met had done this journey,” he says, “The book kind of ends in Benares my journey from there on was less difficult. “Till today, there’s no proper navigation till Allahabad (Prayagraj),” says Singh, who’d changed 200 boats, and travelled by Jeep, over six months. You can also download the converted file, modify, edit, save and print.The book commission prompted Singh to embark on a Ganga yatra, from Gomukh (Uttarakhand) to Gangasagar (Bay of Bengal), a pilgrimage-cum-romantic-odyssey, albeit without forethought. Instead of typing, now you can convert images of words, sentences and even paragraphs into an actual text within seconds. Now convert your image files with text into actual text! All you have to do is follow two easy steps, select the image file and upload.


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