The Himalayan Arc
Journey East and South-east
Namita Gokhale (Ed)
Harper Collins
333 pages
Rs699
Everyone knows that it’s tough to turn books into movies. How do you deal with internal monologues? With the world-building that good writers do effortlessly, and in the background? Do you just give up on conveying the tone of the writer’s words, and focus on the narrative?
Three lines from an essay titled “A Poet’s Impressions of Nepal And Bhutan” sum up life in the Himalayas: “Steep climb in the Himalayas/ Mules and men walk together/ Each with their own burden”. But to
