The title of my book is called "The journey of life is just a beginning". It’s the story of a person called Siddhartha who sets out in search of his aim for he believes that his aim in life was not what he was doing but lay elsewhere. A chef by Profession he quits his job and sets out on this journey in the Himalayas after wandering for a few days in Delhi looking at life go past him. He is poetic and speaks in verses in the beginning but soon gets back to the language of the common man once he finds shelter at Shiva Shakti guest house in a sleepy little town in the Himalayas. Here he meets Jindu and a relationship develops between them, a male bonding so strong that when Siddhartha is released from jail he goes back to Shiv Shakti guest house and runs it for five years taking care of Jindu’s family. He also makes some good friends in this journey, one of them being Randy. Randy is a failed musician and is running away from reality. He is a drug addict and introduces Siddhartha to hashish which he quits after he has a near brush with death. Randy is a jester and he would go and team up with any body who would give him hashish to smoke.
Friendships are formed and broken. Siddhartha while staying here falls in love with a girl called Linny who is a back packer and comes every year for six months to stay in India to cut costs and smoke hashish. Siddhartha is happy when Linny makes him her spiritual Guru but this happiness is short lived and soon Siddhartha finds himself all alone, Randy taking sides with Linny.
Jindu comes to the rescue of Siddhartha at this time and Siddhartha once again finds himself doing what he does best. He becomes a partner in Jindu’s Restaurant. The business picks up but fate has other plans and Siddhartha finds himself in jail when Ram Singh, another restaurant owner from the village informs the police of Jindu’s involvement in drug trafficking. The restaurant is raided and Siddhartha finds himself in jail. For years the case drags on and in the prison he meets Randy and Vishal.
Both of them had been duped by Linny.
Randy is soon shifted to a different Jail and its Vishal that Siddhartha grows close to.
After five years in prison Siddhartha finally meets justice and is released. He meets Jindu and promises him to take care of his Family that has fallen apart with the winds of time.
After initial opposition Siddhartha with little help form Vishal is able to solve a lot of problems which mar Jindu’s family. Vishal falls in love with Jindu’s daughter who was raped and then forcibly married to Hari Singh. A divorce is arranged and he gets married to her, but their happiness is short lived as Hari Singh couldn’t take this insult. One night he manages to enter Shiv Shakti guest house and kills Saloni, Jindu’s Daughter. Vishal looses his cool and after killing Hari Singh finally goes to the gallows.
Siddhartha is once again left alone. Jindu no longer interested in business, things start to look bleak when one day Rizzla arrives. Rizzla shows Siddhartha where he had gone wrong and why he hadn’t been able to realize his aim in life . She tells him about the forces of destiny and how they guide each person.
Siddhartha realizes that while he was looking for his aim in life all this time, he actually was fulfilling it .
Siddhartha finally feels at peace and his heart stops. His last words "The journey of life is just a beginning."
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