It’s a skillful presentation of two scintillating romantic stories of love and relationship compiled into one with a subtle string bordering on extra-marital from one of the leading writers and journalists of Odisha, Ramesh Patnaik.

Built upon gripping themes of emotional, spiritual and sensual conflicts under the moon, the package of twin novellas is awe-inspiring.

The presence of moon in the twin fictions is representative of the emotional state of lovers in the stories. The characters are true to their moral, spiritual and metaphysical consciousness groomed typically in Indian sub-continent.

What should catch the readers is the emotional appeal of the stories with down-to-earth delineation of characters in their queer situations. A must read and take-home book for all: 2T Romantic Janharati.

Relationships are tiny flowers on the fabric of time. Arunabh in the novella “A palm with vanishing lines”, stays sandwiched between infinite probabilities life would ever be studded with & life’s cruel monotony. What’s his takeaway from the chaos? ‘Why can’t we remember the future?’ is a big confusion in space-time intimacy. In “Time: the protagonist”, the young man roams in search of time and finds time crucified by hands of the clock. ‘Can time vanish from a place?’, ‘ Is time a mere witness?’ and many questions hook his mind.