Title: Avāk
First published: 2008
Description: Awaak
meaning
Speechless, Dumbfounded, Awe struck, Almighty, A walk in circumambulation

Awaak 
A Journey To The Holiest Mountain of Hindus and Buddhists, The mythical Mount Meru, the centre of the world, A Holy Tibetans site held captive by the Chinese

A journey of last rites of a dear one

A final act of coming bare and clean of one’s Karma,  one’s ego

A journey of a believer, done in the company of texts, ranging from modern thinkers to saint poets old and new

An attempt to create one’s own time and space in the process of a pilgrimage

A multi layered text that defied common notions of an elegy//a political reportage /memoir/ travelogue

Awaak sold out its first Hindi edition in 8 months
Subjects: Authors, Hindi, Hindi Authors, Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages, Travel
Places: China, Manasarowar Lake, Mansarowar Lake, Mount Kailas
People: Gagan Gill
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PK2098.22.I39Z46 2008 (P-PZ40)+