The book is about a small-towner thrown into the British colonial lifestyle of the Tea Estates of Darjeeling, Assam and the Dooars region of West Bengal, India. In a remarkably personal journey as a tea planter, the author, MP Verma, recounts his adventures with wild animals, human beings, ghosts and a Tibetan oracle who sets him on his spiritual journey. The short stories have been intricately woven against the backdrop of the Teesta floods of 1968, the dawn of the Naxalite movement, the Indo-Pak War of 1971 and the Gorkhaland agitation in the 1980's. The book will thrill, tug at your heartstrings and transport you into a world that did once exist but may be lost forever.