"Sometimes you just don’t know what the dream is. The one that you woke up from, or the one that you are in."

Anant Brihaspati is an unremarkable thirty-something guy who works nine-to-five in an underpaying job and lives in a flat with his ailing mother. Anant is lonely, frustrated, addicted to cigarettes, and deeply traumatised by his father’s death and an excruciatingly painful past heartbreak. His life has come to an almost unbearable standstill where he consistently battles with a deep-rooted sense of inadequacy.

But everything changes one day.

When Anant dies.

And he finds out that death isn’t the end. It’s merely a transitional state—one that would uncover all that has been lying hidden within his consciousness.

Anant Brihaspati & Family is a work of literary fiction with underlying themes of trauma, loss, masculinity, and afterlife. It serves as a reminder that no matter how deep and unsettling the truth might be, we cannot move forward in life without acknowledging and accepting it.