"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalJaved a hotel boy in Kabul, who lived in an imaginary world in his head.
Baba Joe, a Malaysian sadhu who transformed from a hippie to a sanyasi.
Kenny, the travel guru who traveled from India to Australia to England and Europe with hardly any money in his pocket.
Mohan Giri Baba a naga sanyasi, who reveals the inner secrets of the naga sect.
The fun loving Swedish junkies, who made smuggling morphine and heroin to Europe and surviving with style, a fine art.
Remarkable and colourful young men and women from across the world who hit the road in the counter-culture movement of the late 60’s and 70’s rejecting Western consumerism and imperialistic meddling like the Vietnam War.
Plus the music of the great Indian rock and roll bands who were as good as the best in the world.
And finally some memorable characters in the world of advertising which was the author’s final resting place.
These unique characters that the author befriended on his six years on the road will give you as much pleasure reading of them as they did in flesh and blood.
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Arjun Ghosh
While studying in St. Xavier’s Calcutta and St. Stephen’s Delhi, Arjun Ghosh got interested in the counter culture wave that was sweeping the world. That was born in Harvard, in the anti-Vietnam War protests, in Greenwich Village and Height Ashbury and exploded on the stage of Woodstock. It was given wings by Kerouac’s “On the Road”, the poetry of Alan Ginsberg, the writings of Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, and the music of the great Rock and Roll bands that were singing to the youth of the world.
After completing his Master’s from St. Stephen’s, Delhi, Arjun realized that to understand the real spirit of the times one had to live it. And an integral part of the experience was living on the road and travelling with the youth of the Woodstock generation from across the world.
So Arjun went on a six year journey that stretched from the by-lanes of Calcutta to the parks and discos of Delhi; from the mountains Nepal and Himachal Pradesh, across the border to Afghanistan; to the sea swept beaches of the Eastern coast and Goa.
Finally at the end of this six year journey he came back to mainstream society and spent 35 + years in advertising firstly as a copywriter and then as creative director.
