# Rivers

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2021/08/16/rivers/
- Published: 2021-08-16T21:25:53+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author: **Mallikarjun B. Mulimani[⌊A sample cover of the book: midnight blue coloured handloom 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/2021/08/Rivers-2-scaled-1.jpeg)
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Pages:** 96 **Year of Publication:** 2021 **Price:** Rs 300 **ISBN:** 978-81-953583-
1-1 (9788195358311)

_**About the Author**_
 Mallikarjun B. Mulimani writes novellas and novels, long
and short poems including haikus. His books and style of writing, where brevity 
is the hallmark, influenced by his engineering background, are unique and acclaimed.
He has twenty-one books to his credit, with diverse themes: psychology of humans
and their milieu, God, love, sex, religion, realization of self, life, and death.
They often touch the metaphysical domain. Every book remains a search.

_**About the Book**_

“**_Rivers_** is a saga of two rivers: one of attempted suicide and another of gradual
enlightenment. It is an original and compact philosophy. The story is set in the
pristine Himalayas and Mumbai. It begins with an idealistic young boy turning into
a dissatisfied actor and director of art movies, filled with fears and desires. 
He is obsessed with himself – trying to be a light unto himself without proper initial
teachings – and, suffocated by a world filled with pain and pleasure, tries to end
it all by drowning himself in the first river. He doesn’t die, but instead becomes
a Shunya, a zero which is nothing and everything, a man who, desiring nothing, has
everything. He also becomes non-attached to everything except non-attachment; however,
he only realizes the true meaning of Shunya and non-attachment, combining both the
concepts to become enlightened, at the end.”

Mallikarjun B. Mulimani