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The book “Blue Sky, White Cloud: Three Novellas” by Nirmal Ghosh features beautiful illustrations and rich prose.
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The novellas in this book are ‘River Storm’, ‘Spirit of The Hills’, and ‘Blue Sky, White Cloud’.
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In the novella ‘Blue Sky, White Cloud’, Nadia, a wildlife biologist researching geese, travels to Mongolia, where she tags two geese: Blue Sky and White Cloud. As the birds fly southwards over the Himalayas, she meets Vivek, India’s Minister of State for Environment. Their instantaneous friendship soon takes Vivek to a lush valley at the base of the soaring Himalayas, where he must make a decision that will impact the lives of all around him.
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Read an excerpt from the book below.
The wild geese know when winter is coming.
Maybe it is in the quickening of days. Or a change in the wind.
Flying across the vast undulating plains of Mongolia etched with jagged mountains, where you can see the curvature of the earth in the…
