The Last Chapter is about a lonely person’s relation with his mad and moribund mother. A mother who cannot see, cannot walk and who must be cared for like an infant. A mother who is out of touch with reality and does not remember the name of the child with whom she is spending her last days. A mother who sacrificed her job for her family and who does not own anything except her clothes and a small family pension. A woman who has lost all nears and dears except her children but cries out to her parents lying in an ICU bed undergoing painful procedures. The pain of a son who sees the first woman and the only woman in his life move closer and closer to death with each passing day.
Mother son relation is one of the most intimate of human relations. However, this relation is not just about a woman caring for her children. Increase in life expectancy means that people are living longer but suffer from age related ailments later in life. A stage comes where children have to take care for their parents as if they were children. Awareness of mental diseases is low in India and many consider age related neurological problems such as dementia as part of normal process of ageing. The book looks at mother son relation from a different perspective and aims at increasing awaremess about end-of-life issues.