The story unfolds as a thrilling roller-coaster ride, pitted against time. The rails of the coaster are formed by the fragile labyrinth of Indian politics on one side and the treacherous world of Alternate Medicine on the other. Untertaking the quest to find an elusive cure for the biggest tormentor of today-AIDS-is Anjali Srinath, a US-born Indian doctor and Prerna, the prime ministerial candidate of the Indian National Party. The rise is made tougher by a trinity of unholy forces, constituted by the billion-dollar pharmaceutical industry and tentacles of unscrupulous guter politics.
In the undercurrent of this rip-roaring chase, however, a quiet metamorphosis is taking place. Exposure to the misery of the real world makes the mind a Buddha that realize that all this power, money and fame is nothing but a mirage of sand.
The novel strives to prolong the moments of pondering on the futility of or mindelss rat race.
