Ecstasy on the Mountain - A Long Wait

Yudhajit's debut novel is about two unforgettable yet, unlike characters. They find their lives entangled after a strange meeting in a picturesque location of Shillong, a North East India town popularly called the "Scotland of East." This book is the story of an Australian girl, Lucy Lawson. She is an eloquent and moving lady. She balances a yearning masterfully for self-discovery with the need for familial love-a woman's longing for life amid nature, where simplicity and basic human values prevail. This professional psychologist takes time off to visit the hilly locales of beautiful places with an older man Vivek Marak. She discovers in his story, a very fascinating, stark, and cruel too. His life is a moving no-holds-barred dissection of his own self on the surgical table of life that ebbs and flows in its richness, enveloping all our rationality. Irrationally, emotions and frustrations, longing and despair make us rejoice at our triumphs and achievements. At times, we curse ourselves at the follies and blunders we commit willy-nilly. This story is an honest account of a commoner's remarkable journey as any of us."Ecstasy on the Mountain" has a novel force while masterfully packaged. An average reader can read it in a single sitting. Yudhajit writes with dazzling assurance, at a fast pace, on complex themes that read as the components of a thriller ?passion for a sport, ?disappointments in life for not realizing the dream, ?falling prey to addictions, ?a comeback trail to the normal life; and ?most importantly, the value of the emotion LOVE.