# Approaching Death

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2019/12/04/approaching-death/
- Published: 2019-12-04T02:44:40+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Mallikarjun B. Mulimani[⌊A sample cover of the book: salmon coloured sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Approaching-Death-scaled-1.jpeg)
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Pages:** 80 **Year of Publication:** 2019 **Price:** Rs 300 **ISBN:** 978-81-941819-
3-4 (9788194181934)

_**About the Author**_
 Mallikarjun B. Mulimani, born on 17 September 1979, is an
Electronics and Communication engineer, turned writer. He initially wrote poems 
and later took up writing short stories, novellas and novels. So far, he has given
birth to sixteen books, four of which have been published by **Writers Workshop**,
India:_**[ Abstractions](https://writersworkshopindia.com/books/poetry/redbird/abstractions/)**_(
a book of poems and digital artwork), _**[The Holy Plumber and Other Stories](https://writersworkshopindia.com/books/fiction/greenbird/stories/the-holy-plumber-and-other-stories/)**_(
a book of stories with a poem for each story), _**[Operation Epiphany ~ God’s Journey on Earth](https://writersworkshopindia.com/books/fiction/novel/operation-epiphany-gods-journey-on-earth/)**_(
a novel) and _**[Dams across the Flow](https://writersworkshopindia.com/books/dams-across-the-flow/)**_(
a novella). His other works include _Victims Incorporated – Circles of Sub-consciousness_,
a novel published by Current Publications, Agra, and _What Happened to My Creativity?_,
a novella self-published by CreateSpace. Five of his latest novellas: _Star Ride
to Nirvana, Bhakti Sans Religion – Dilemmas in the Search of One’s True Inner Self,
Politics – A Love Story, Buddha In A Mercedes_ and _A Writer’s Zen_,  three of his
latest books of poems: _Poems to Myself, Alternative Haikus, Poems for Us_ and two
books containing long single poems: _Selene_ and _A Mariachi & A Philosopher on 
Wheels_, were published by Leadstart.

_**About the Book**_
 In his foreword to the book, Professor M. I. Savadatti writes:

“_**Approaching Death**_ is the story of Aryan, a well-educated young man, in search
of the meaning of life and death. The story explores the confusions, conflicts of
emotion, feeling and reality while trying to understand death and its effect on 
people around, when he witnesses his grandmother’s death.

Aryan’s intellectual journey to understand death leads him to two concepts: “mental
death”, where a person, though physically alive, is mentally dead; and “physical
death”, that is death. His crying need to understand takes him to the Varanasi ghats,
which enhances his understanding and also confusion but he runs into Shalini, a 
doting daughter grieving for her dead father. A common chord of suffering is struck.

Later he sees her in a state of mental death as she is totally rejected by her family
for loving her drunkard father, and invites her to come and get healed in the warm
love of his parents.

Shalini and Aryan wander, in search for the meaning of life, the lanes of old, forlorn,
derelict persons and wonder how is it they can live and why is it they have to suffer.
Both realize they get peace when helping people who are forgotten by society and
find meaning in making them smile and decide to work together as soulmates to serve
them and make them feel cared for.”