From Heaven Lake: a journey with Vikram Seth
Book title: From Heaven Lake Book author: Vikran Seth Some books we buy and let them sit on the shelf for a while, not because they are boring, but because it keeps our excitement alive longer, the excitement of not knowing what happens in the story… I learned about this book from the Book Review section of my daily newspaper. A travel book on Tibet, wait a minute… I quickly added the book to my Goodreads To Read shelf. Then added it to the list of books I gave my local bookshop to bring from abroad. After a wait of forty days the books came. And it took me more than a year to finally start reading it. All this time I did not forget about the book, rather I was thinking when should I give myself the pleasure to get lost in a beautiful paperback and let it carry me to the plateau of Tibetan high lands, adorned with prayer flags… Finally I am reading the book, in no special circumstance. But once I am onto a few pages of the story, I might be riding the bumpy road with the student Vikram...
