The story starts with a final hooter of a train and ends with the words of wisdom of a mystic Yogi. John, a writer meets a Yogi on a journey to Varanasi. After ice-breaking with the fellow traveller and overcoming initial inhibitions with a stranger, the conversation surprisingly becomes freewheeling to story sharing. As Yogi narrates an engaging and lifechanging story about three friends: Krish, an IITian pursuing his entrepreneur dream; Tony, a vodka crazy high school-dropout; and Asif, a music-loving carpet-seller, a writer in John is joyful as he gets a story. But as Yogi predicts, John will walk out of the story with a different understanding about life. The novel is about that understanding.
The pace at which the conversation and rapport is built is surprisingly too quick perhaps scripted to accommodate future happenings.
The story shuttles to and fro between the narrator and characters, from different places to a moving train. And as life takes three friends journeying into an eventful trip to Goa, eventually, a prediction by a tarot reader in a plane and plane hijack makes it more thrilling only to be disappointed and spoiled by authors rush to get his point across.
Later after a life-changing trip to Goa, there is a surprising change in characters. The characters go through a spiritual change which makes them question life, instils purpose and makes them conventional ‘good boys’.
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