When the passion for sports and literature combines with the profession of medical science, it is bound to create a perfectly imperfect or imperfectly perfect consequence. Similar is the case of Udayakumar DS, a Doctor-turned-Author with a strong passion for cricket and reading. From the limitless certainty of science to an uncertain dimension of imagination, thoughts, ideas, and expressions, Udayakumar has taken in stride the bifurcations of his life. With the noble thought of making a difference in the lives of people with his books, as much as he impacts the lives of people through his medical profession, he keeps transitioning his existence in the real world and the imaginative space of his mind.
Physically dwelling in Gurugram, Udayakumar prefers to live in many of his imaginary worlds. Be it a child prodigy in a wheelchair or a nameless retired doctor living in solitude. An orphan with a pseudonym or a deadly companion. A dead billionaire or altogether in the form of a squirrel GoD. His world of fantasy led him to become the love birds, IKLU and LeMA in his book ‘Life of a Sunset Kid’. The protagonist Pratiksha gets hold of a journal called ‘Kris’ that belonged to her late uncle Shyam, and it had been lying away from noticeable existence. Upon discovering the interesting journal two decades after her uncle’s demise, while she is eagerly digging deep into the contents of it, her curiosity mounts with every page.
In his short life of fourteen years, Shyam had battled a degenerative muscle disease, and to liberate his parents from the insurmountable pain and suffering they endured from his condition, he relentlessly pushed his brain’s limits to achieve greatness in several ways. The journal unveils the learnings received and the people encountered by the physically constrained, wheelchair bound Shyam on the journeys he made into the other realms usually not accessible to humans. To add to the mystery, decades later, Pratiksha sends shockwaves to her family by unfolding a long-unknown secret from Shyam’s journal. An incident that Shyam could not have known about because it happened years after his death. How did the past unfold into the unseen future? What had Shyam unravelled about the human journey, especially his journey? All this and more are disclosed in this intriguing tale with twists and turns to baffle the mind, heart, soul, and subconscious.
Through his weirdness, Udayakumar aspires to continue entertaining his readers with stories that are woven around stark reality and strange fantasy, the known world and unknown realms, and a unique fusion of the evident past and imaginary futurism.
