The Person Behind the Expedition
Vikrant Gupta is an author based in Jaipur, India, with over thirteen years of experience in India's financial system.
He grew up with the Ramayana — not as a book, but as a presence. It was in the stories his elders told, in the festivals that marked his years, in the quiet certainty that its values were older and truer than anything the passing world could offer.
For years he wondered what lay beneath the Ramayana's geography. Then he wrote the answer.
"I have tried to honour the Ramayana — to imagine a world worthy of it, and to let the awe I have always felt for it run through every chapter. If this book sends even a single reader back to the original, it will have done the only thing I truly hoped it might."