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Sanjay Uvach
From Mumbai to Kashi, A Journey of Self-Discovery
A restless man's road trip from Mumbai to Kashi becomes a reckoning with family, depression, and the life he was meant to live.
Overview
Sanjay does not want much. Not a prestigious career, not social approval, not even the markers of a successful modern life. What he wants, he cannot name — and that inability becomes its own kind of suffering. In Mumbai he is a misfit: the family's expectations weigh on him, relationships fray, and depression settles in. The more he tries to conform, the worse things become.
The road to Kashi is not a planned escape. It is something closer to a last resort — a physical journey that mirrors a spiritual one, undertaken with his wife Janaki, drawing Sanjay back to questions larger than the life he has been trying to live. Shailesh Tupe's novel follows that journey without sentimentality, tracking both the external miles and the interior reckoning they force. What Sanjay discovers is not a solution but a connection — to himself, to something that spans far beyond the present life.
For readers who have felt the exhaustion of performing a life they did not choose, this story will feel recognisable.
Sanjay is not even ambitious. He does not even want a safe job. Or even a high paying job. But he is anxious. He gets depressed, feeling that he is a misfit in this world. He loves his family and wants to do something good for them. He bows to their wishes. But the more he tries to accept their decisions for him, the more he become depressed. His relationship with his parents goes downhill, his sister-in-law becomes spiteful. Nothing is helping his cause. Is he really a misfit? To find the answer, Sanjay must traverse a journey that seemingly has no destination but is profound enough to help him find his moorings. A journey that links him to his inner self, nay the Supreme being itself, residing within. Will Sanjay, with his wife Janaki, be able to complete his journey from Mumbai to Kashi? What does he find about his bigger journey, spanning many lives? Sanjay tells his story. Let Sanjay Uvach.
