The Celibate

The evolution of an AI engineer into a Jesuit, a Christian priest, and later

an Aghori Sadhu, a naked Hindu monk, is the story. On holiday in Goa,

Grace, a local girl, invited Abe to stay with her on condition he wouldn't

touch her. He became madly in love with Grace but evolved into a celibate.

At the Kamakhya temple, Emma, from Amsterdam, a researcher of

Aghori Sadhus, prompted him about the joys of sex that challenged Abe's

manhood. Her greenish eyes mesmerised him, and the lure tore him apart.

A reverberating saga of sparkling aspirations and fleeting visions of Abe, Grace and

Emma, enthralled in the zest of living and entrenched in captivating catastrophe

sans exit, elevates the reader into a delightful psychic amorphous experience.

This explosive existential surrealistic fiction exposes the absurdity and futility

of celibacy, asceticism, and renunciation. Grace and Emma are two facets

of womanhood, and Abe is the quintessential artist who tries to circumvent

his anguish through painting their portraits. The Aghori Sadhu symbolises

the meaninglessness of life. His nudity is civilisation's primaeval status, the

freedom to be naked.