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DescriptionIn January 2017, Mihir Vatsa, a young poet, gives up his life in the big city andmoves back home to Hazaribagh, a small town on Jharkhand’s ChhotanagpurPlateau. Battling depression and uncertainty, he is seeking a ’sanatorium’amidst the sal trees and the temperate climes of home-just like the Britishsoldiers and Bengali settlers and visitors before him.Rejuvenated by the fresh air and lush landscape of his childhood, he spends thenext three years exploring local landmarks and their fascinating history, and thedeep, wondrous escarpments, the secret waterfalls and serpentine rivers of theplateau. Travelling partly on foot and partly in his trusted Alto, he encounterstrees destined for death and waterfalls ravaged by mining; passes throughSurajkund-the country’s hottest geological wonder-and Karanpura Valley-home to prehistoric humans ten millennia ago; and takes selfies with emus.In between, he wonders what makes a landscape beautiful and how languageshapes such notions; muses on the arbitrary boundaries of administrationand government which, try as they might, cannot tame rivers and hills; andplumbs the archives of previous residents of the plateau and his own memoryto understand his love of home. With empathy and in unhurried prose, Tales ofHazaribagh combines the best of nature, life, history and travel writing into anunforgettable portrait of a place and a journey back to one’s self. 3
