Keedajadi/कीड़ाजड़ी: हिंदी कथेतर श्रेणी में VoW (Valley of Words/वैली ऑफ वर्ड्स ) बुक अवॉर्ड्स 2023 के लिए लौंगलिस्टेड
Have you ever wondered what lies beyond the maps? In a remote valley where electricity hasn't yet arrived and mobile signals are just folklore, a schoolteacher arrives to educate children caught between two languages, two worlds. This book pulls back the curtain on a landscape where mountaineering expeditions leave their footprints across the shoulders of ordinary folk, where clouds burst with their own peculiar logic, and where survival means using tools your grandparents would recognise. Through vivid, unsettling detail, Yadav reveals how desire and so-called progress worm their way into even the most isolated corners. Here, youth don't recognise their own fields. Children ski down ice-bound slopes seated in plates. Smugglers, herbal collectors, and wandering mystics inhabit a realm that government officials struggle to reach. The narrative isn't gentle—it's prickly, strange, occasionally absurd, yet deeply rooted in observable reality. What emerges is something far richer than a travel account. It's a collision between two cultures, two ways of being, told with the kind of specificity that makes you feel the cold stone beneath your feet and hear the river's relentless murmur. Yadav doesn't moralise. Instead, he watches, notes, and lets the contradictions speak for themselves. The result is disquieting, memorable, and absolutely worth your attention.
- Author: Anil Yadav/अनिल यादव
- Publisher: Hind Pocket Books
- Genre: Journalism & Media Studies
- ISBN: 978-0143453734
- Pages: 209 pages