About The Author

P. H. Gopal is the author of "The Little Guide, a Great Journey" and "The Peanut Boy." Born in Switzerland, the author migrated to India by land when he was six. Shortly after, for a while, he bounces around from temple to pilgrimage, living like a sanyasi. Not long after, he settled on a desolate plateau earmarked for an international community on the coast of Tamil Nadu. A few monsoons later, he joined the University of Ground Reality. Eventually, many summers later he became a landscaper, a forester, a paragliding instructor, an author, and a musician, a little confused at times, and incapable of cooking an egg.

In 1990, he joined the ICRC for what felt like dog years. A boatload of full moons later, having failed to resolve any worldly conflicts by brandishing the Geneva Convention in the ugly face of cruelty, he returned to dosas and sādhanā on the east coast of South India.

During the pandemic, he decides to pursue studies in psychotherapy. After a four-year chase, he catches up with them, gets rewarded for the effort with a dull-looking practitioner’s licence, and finally removes his mask.

Countless sunrises later, after having planted trees for three decades to upset his neighbours’ carbon footprints, he scrutinises the future for signs of godly meaning to the prevailing insanity as the world spins out of control. As he witnessed the utopia he served diligently morph into a dystopia through refined brutality, he became the unwilling spectator of the ridiculous efforts to transform an extraordinary yoga into an ordinary religion.

Having learnt, most often at his own expense, that the Divine has a great sense of humour, he decides that the best course of action is to wait and, in time, share the last laugh with Him.