# The Wanderlust Conspiracy: Verse, Prose & Prayers from Cities Chained to the Heart

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2017/11/14/the-wanderlust-conspiracy-verse-prose-prayers-from-cities-chained-to-the-heart/
- Published: 2017-11-14T02:07:41+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Siddharth Dasgupta[](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/The-Wanderlust-Conspiracy.jpg)
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Pages:** 156 **Year of Publication:** 2017 **Price:** Rs 300 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
165-6 (9789350451656)

_**About the Author**_
 Siddharth Dasgupta began devouring books at an early age.
From within a mountain of spy classics and eastern European fairytales, it was _The
Little Prince_ that held his imaginations the most. He somehow intuited that a life
of wonder and travel would end up becoming focal narratives in his life.

Wanderlust and its accompanying passions are central to Siddharth’s journeys as 
a writer; they imbue a richness of context and character to much of his fiction,
while stirring his non-fiction with a distinctive timbre. His poetry and stories
appear in a wide range of publications and literary journals; his travel and culture
obsessions, meanwhile, are frequent features too.

Siddharth’s debut novel, _Letters from an Indian Summer_ (Fingerprint), has met 
with consistent critical acclaim since its release in the winter of 2014. The year
2017 marked the release of a short-story collection – _The Sacred Sorrow of Sparrows_(
Niyogi).

_**Teaser**_
 “Cities breed their streets; streets duly birth their designated human
beings; human beings, accordingly, give rise to stories; and in a sense, perhaps
this is how fables come into the world. Using a hypnotic, multi-textured palette
of free verse, prose poetry, flash fiction, flash non-fiction, and homage, _The 
Wanderlust Conspiracy_ is both an ode to the lure of horizons infused with bliss,
and a riotous hat tip to the predilections of human hearts – blazing away with lust
and chasing after that consequential rush, as they are. Across sixty-one individual
pieces, Siddharth Dasgupta weaves poetry and poetic narratives with the dexterity
of an astrologer summoning the stars.”

A review of the book can be read in [Muse India](http://museindia.com/Home/ViewContentData?arttype=book%20review(s)&issid=78&menuid=7769).

_**Contents**_
 61 pieces