A Letter from the Valley

‘A Letter from the Valley’ - a novel, deals with the pangs and pains of life mixed with the little joys and happiness.John was born at the time when the Indian economy was jigging to adjust to the open economies of the world. At the same time, his father is victimized by the intrigues of the church politics. The transition of the economy was a difficult time for him like his generation to readjust to the changed times to make a career.Sipping the bitterness of the religiously and cast divided society, he tries to find some threads to knit together its wounds torn down by religious riots and the separatism supported by terrorism.John finally finds a small job of a computer operator in the neighboring state of Jammu & Kashmir, where he shares the pains of a local Kashmiri boy Farukh, who becomes his roommate. Here they find a relation between Christianity and Islam that was once lost inside Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.John is already connected to another Kashmiri man who has a separatist instinct and has now joined a terror group. This terrorist, Ahmed, plans to bomb a bus that by chance is carrying John…