Stealing Gods

One fateful day, while prowling around for the rare and the exceptional, Pashan, an aesthete turned international smuggler of antiquities, stumbles upon a quintessence of Indian beauty ? a young girl exuding unprecedented joy and innocent. Momentarily, he experiences an irrational relief from darkness, it is as if she has beamed into the darkest corners of his being and illuminated his entire past, when he too laughed and loved. This story is based on the true life experiences of a young feudal lord that the author met in the late nineteen sixties.