The veteran actor of B’town Anupam
Kher was out here in Delhi for the release of a book “The Spirit of the River”,
a spiritual fiction, based on the concept of depression. Apart from him the
author of the Novel Karina Arora and the CEO of Hay House publishers Ashok
Chopra were present to grace the launch event.
Featured by the Hay House
publishers “The Spirit of the River” highlights every kind of emotional and
spiritual load, which is carried by humans on a daily basis. The storyline of
the novel surrounds by the character of Zoe, a newly turned adult’s young life
and her tragic experience compels us to start a conversation about loss and its
implications. With her 18th birthday still a happy new memory, is confronted
with the untimely death of her parents. The reality of such a huge loss throws
Zoe into the dark corners of grief but leads her on an unexpected journey where
she learns to experience life on her own. The simplicity in narration is fresh
and the story-telling both engaging and inspiring.
While asking Anupam about the book
he narrated, “This book is about the sense of loss, about losing parents in
such an age, and how the young girl Zoe copes up with the sense of loss she
been through, is the most amazing factor of the book.” Whereas on talking terms
about depression among youngsters, he stated, “I think today’s youth has the
stress about fitting into circumstances, like, I want to fit in, I want to
look cool’ this is one of the biggest reason for them to get indulge in such a
stressful zone.” On materialistic things and social media, he said, “You cannot
be constantly with machine, like mobile internet and things like that, on
certain stage you will become like a machine. Information turns into knowledge
only by going through life, otherwise it will be just information.”
On the other hand the author of
the book Karina Arora, shared her own views and thoughts regarding the same,
she says, “This book is about your inner self, it is about what are you from
inside, not about the outside factor and what you look like. Writing a book is
one of the ways to cope up with depression. This is a very far out concept, I
haven’t experienced this situation personally, but as I read several books, I
have different outlook and perspective for life.”
Well, Karina Arora was 17 when she
started writing about this book, and by the age of 18 she completed it. Based
from Delhi, presently she is pursuing her business degree from Australia. She
started her own successful food blog in 2015.
