Walking, Wandering, Wayfaring by Chitra Gopalakrishnan<\/p>\n
Published by Penprints
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\nWest Bengal, India.
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Genre – Short Stories
\nCopyright – Chitra Gopalakrishnan
\nCover Design- Bikas Kundu
\nPhotographs – Eklavya Prasad<\/p>\n
Price: INR 499| $ 22
\nFirst Edition – June, 2026<\/p>\n
ISBN: 978-81-999633-3-7
\nISBN 10 : 81-999633-3-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Walking, Wandering, Wayfaring, a collection of short stories, uses the \u2018literature of journey\u2019 genre and its premise of the quest for meaning, both as scaffolding and metaphor, to intertwine travels of the body, mind, and spirit. As these voyages are not separate or linear and written into the emotional core of each narrative, this collection deliberately sets aside the order of the pursuit, bringing forward the \u2018way\u2019 as the vibrant space where the seeking happens. The narratives immerse the readers in the physical, nomadic wanderings of both men and women, the latter\u2019s often more anarchist and map-less\u2014on roads, highways, mountains, fields, rivers, ponds, forests, cities, villages, village squares, mofussil towns, and even cremation grounds\u2014each a treacherous terrain where the route is not an inert backdrop but actively influences the traveller and their thoughts.<\/p>\n
Even as the\u00a0wayfaring shakes up the sojourners\u2019 illusory sense of normalcy and routines, and pitches them\u00a0between despair and hope, and belonging and un-belonging, it ignites within them a life energy, an\u00a0\u00e9lan vital, that brings deliverance, as they become the path and exude its spirit of freedom. As people tramp on their journeys, not necessarily by choice but certainly by necessity, the question lingers: did the wanderer find the way, or did the way find the wanderer?
\nThe tales, at the same time, focus on individuals experiencing a \u2018rite of passage\u2019, as their minds transition from one way of life and perspective to another. While they reflect on the fragility of the human psyche, they also celebrate growth, transcendence, and healing.<\/p>\n
The collection also engages in a contrasting journey, an unhurried one, of letting go\u2014releasing the hinges of \u2018I\u2019 and \u2018mine\u2019\u2014where characters discover that true freedom, the site of all meaning, lies in liberating all transient paths and attachments, and in recognising the God within themselves\u2014to find an enormous, true, permanent, healing and luminous world that reveals the cosmic significance of existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1134,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[245],"product_cat":[99],"product_tag":[293,290,291,292],"class_list":["post-1133","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_brand-penprints","product_cat-short-story","product_tag-chitra-gopalakrishnan","product_tag-walking","product_tag-wandering","product_tag-wayfaring","thunk-woo-product-list","opn-qv-enable","big-store-woo-hover-zoom","open-single-product-tab-horizontal","open-shadow-","open-shadow-hover-","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}