The novels below form a trilogy, collectively titled Today's E.P.C.O.T, with the first two being about different Experimental Prototype Communities of Today in India and the third being less a novel and more a novel rhizomatic map of a mind-in-motion towards an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.
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Following Footsteps to See the Source: Don't Look Back (2003-2005)
Following the themes and issues in From C2R: The Big Boom Theory (described below), Following Footsteps to See the Source: Don't Look Back investigates tensions of sustainability amidst unsustainable human pressures between pilgrimage, conservation and development as encountered over a 6 month solo-secular journey I took, following the Ganga from its Himalayan source on the border with Tibet to where it becomes the sea in the Bay of Bengal. What follows is a wild form foray of travelling along the length of one of the great rivers of the world while encountering stragglers from all walks of life: politicians, polluters, crusaders, contributors, artists, activists, anarchists, scholars, saints, scoundrels, sadhus, sannyassis, sages, seers, swagmen, madmen, mystics and mendicants.
The following is the cover, and list of chapter titles in the structure of 5 Phases, each corresponding to a section of the river, with Phase 1 the source and Phase 5 the sea.
Phase and Chapter titles and Cover from Following Footsteps to See the Source: Don't Look Back
From C2R: The Big Boom Theory (2000-2004)
From C2R: The Big Boom Theory is a surrealist study of tourism, conservation and development amidst communes of Israeli and European expatriate communities who hide in hamlets in certain taboo hobbitesque valleys of the western Indian Himalaya, where escalating mafia wars between local dons and underground overlanders on the run from the law ensure that they have lost themselves one-and-all in a paradise lost. It is based on three gonzo anthropology trips through the area in 2000 and 2003 and the logical extension of recording an album of experimental music with a Swiss mystic who whiles away the days in a remote village that suffers as the construction site of the second largest dam in India.
The following is the list of chapter titles in the structure of 4 Stages, each corresponding to the size of the stages of the Parvati Valley Hydroelectric Projects.
