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Exploration and identity

Mr Vatsa narrates both history and personal anecdotes with poetic charm

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Tales of Hazaribagh: An Intimate Exploration of Chhotanagpur Plateau

Saurabh Sharma
Tales of Hazaribagh: An Intimate Exploration of Chhotanagpur Plateau
Author: Mihir Vatsa  
Publisher: Speaking Tiger
Pages:216
Price: Rs 450

Writing about “modernists of the streets” in The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City, Matthew Beaumont offers that “lost steps, paradoxically, are unlost, and only the steps that follow a specific, prescribed trajectory are lost.”

In 2016, Mihir Vatsa, a multi-award-winning poet and riverwalker, was working as a copywriter in Delhi. Seduced by a steady income, he found himself following a “prescribed trajectory”: A realisation that he’s getting ‘lost’. As a result, he not only began to hate the everydayness of