Moonless Moonlight

'Moonless Moonlight' is a fiction in the form of a fable comprised of nineteen chapters that takes on issues related to the Covid pandemic. Each chapter introduces a narrator, portrayed through birds, fish, reptiles, and four-legged forest denizens. From the Bear to the Koel to the Tiger and the Whale, and many others present in the nocturnal meeting held under a gigantic banyan tree in a moonlit forest of the melancholic world threatened by a bleak future and tomorrow-less today. The story deals with matters that affect all of mankind and portrays almost every available information about Covid 19 and the Corona Virus, about the probable causes and the probable cures, about lifestyle, and in the process, through the eyes of these remarkable characters author tells us, through philosophy, through India's great sages, poets and thinkers, and as humbly as possible, what Nature expects from us, humans. There is a sophistication of thought here, a gentle turn and dignity not usually found in most fiction nowadays.