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Debut Novel · 2026

In Quest

The Awakening

A burned-out corporate strategist crashes into the jungles of Northeast India and discovers the voice from his recurring nightmare belongs to the hermit who saved his life. A transformative journey from corporate cage to spiritual awakening.

In Quest – The Awakening by Sanjoy Banerjee
93K+Words
4Parts
50Scenes
15Years in the Making
8.3/10Review Score

When the city can no longer hold you

Anant is everything corporate India asks of its brightest minds — relentless, strategic, exhausted. When his body finally gives out in a highway crash deep in Assam’s fog-laced jungles, he awakens to a world without schedules, targets, or performance reviews.

The hermit who nurses him back holds a secret: his voice is the one Anant has been hearing in nightmares for years. What begins as recovery becomes revelation — a four-part journey through grief, surrender, and the terrifying freedom of not knowing who you are.

I

The Gray City

Corporate Delhi — the treadmill before the crash.

II

Moving Without Momentum

Lost in the jungle — the silence between lives.

III

The Awakening

Questions that cannot be thought away.

IV

The Return

Going back — but not to what was.

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Written for the 28–45 year old buried in a career they built but never chose. For spiritual seekers, for the burned-out and meaning-hungry, for anyone drawn to the wild northeast of India or the inner wilderness we all carry.

Corporate ProfessionalsSpiritual SeekersLiterary Fiction ReadersIndian DiasporaMindfulness Practitioners