Heat And Dust Project

'We were the usual: nine-to-fivers investment-makers mall-goers office-trippers and city-slickers. We were life-going-to-seeders.'

Living in a sunny barsati in south Delhi Saurav Jha and Devapriya Roy are your average DINK couple about to acquire a few EPaper Back and come of age in the modern consumerist world. Only they don't. They junk the swivel chairs gain a couple of backpacks and set out on a transformational journey across India. On a very very tight budget: five hundred rupees a day for bed and board. And the Heat and Dust project begins.

Joining the ranks of firang gap-year kids and Israelis fresh out of compulsory army service they travel across a land in which five thousand years of Indian history seem to jostle side by side. It is by turns holy and hectic thuggish and comic amoral and endearing. In buses that hurtle through the darkness of the night and the heat of the day across thousands of miles in ever new places the richness of this crowded palette spills over into their lives. From rooms by the hour to strange dinner invitations from spectacular forts to raging tantrums this is a youthful account of wanderlust and whimsy of eccentric choices that unfold into the journey of a lifetime ... and a supreme test of marriage. >Heat And Dust ProjectJha Saurav- Roy DevapriyaHARPER INDIA9789351367499