Latest offering from Bappaditya Chakravarty, The Two Wanderers—a ninth century saga painted on a broad canvas spread over Europe, India and Tibet—was launched at the India International Centre in the presence of Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee, Professor Bharat Gupt and Deputy Ambassador of the European Union to India Mr. Seppo Nurmi. The book, published by Garuda Prakashan, comes close to the edge-of-the-seat thriller Swordplay by the author, launched last month, which tells the story of a potential terror target in the Himalayas. Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee, former Editor, Sahitya Akademi, said, “The range and magnitude of Bappaditya Chakravarty’s The Two Wanderers—part travelogue, part meditation, part spirituality—is stupendous. The book makes us face ourselves in search of a meaning of life. It is a tour de force par excellence.” He further said that the amount of details and research in the book was amazing, and reminds one of the famous ‘silk route’. Mr. Seppo Nurmi, Deputy Ambassador of the European Union to India said that the book was filled with “amazing twists and turns right from the beginning.” He added, “It brings two completely different cultures together. It is adventure, history, politics, and human nature at one place.”
Talking about his book, Chakravarty said: “The physically taxing, often dangerous, and tough journeys of the two protagonists—Snorre, the Unruly, a Viking, and Sriverma, a Nalanda University graduate—coincide with their own intense personal experiences. They meet up first in Kashgar (China), and team up to head to Tibet.” Added Chakravarty, “The book is about two sides of human nature. Snorre seeks the meaning of action and adventure, while Sriverma looks for the meaning of knowledge. Taken together, Sriverma and Snorre’s story defines a praxis for everyman in search for answers to the eternal ‘whys’ of life and living. The book underscores the fact that a search for one’s understanding of life must begin with a search for a meaningful way to search.” The Two Wanderers also has management lessons for those interested, said Chakravarty.