Shashank Gupta is an escape artist. He left his PhD in horticulture to become a farmer. He then abandoned six years of full-time farming for advertising. And after almost three decades as Creative Director he is still looking for freedom in books. Barkha Lohia is an artist and illustrator based in Canada. She has worked with publishers, design studios, NGOs and magazines on picture books, editorials, commissions and various illustration projects.
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"var(--font-body)","serif"">In the hill town of Didoli, each of the five visitors to the house on the gorge has a story. The avuncular mongrel called Vurf, a spirit bearing a message for a stepdaughter, the urchin with her golden hair and a vagabond past, a fading child star too wise for his years and an autistic infant who can smell tomorrow. Their lives are entwined over a span of thirty years in a thinking world that seems to say: you grow up to become your childhood.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
