The Himalayan trilogy, which began with "The Book of Shadows" and includes "A Himalayan Love Story", continues with "Things to Leave Behind"—It is 1856, in picturesque Kumaon. History has already begun its steady march. Six native women clad in black and scarlet pichauras huddle around Naineetal Lake, attempting to cleanse it of threatening new influences. For, these are the days of Upper Mall Road (for Europeans and their horses) and Lower Mall Road (‘for dogs, servants and other Indians’). And this is the story of feisty young Tilottama Dutt, whose uncle hangs when he protests the reigning order—and her daughter, Deoki, who will confront change as Indians and as women. which brings to life the mixed legacy of the British Indian past and chronicles Nainital's reluctant entry into modern India. The novel brings alive the romance of the mixed legacy of British-Indian past. Full of the fascinating backstory of Naineetal and its unwilling entry into Indian history. In "Lost in Time: Ghatotkacha and the Game of Illusions" young Chintamani Dev Gupta, on holiday in a bird camp near Lake Sattal, is transported via a wormhole to the days of the Mahabharata. Trapped in time, he meets Ghatotkacha and his mother, the demoness Hidimba. But the gentle giant, a master of illusion and mind-boggling rakshasa technology, wields his strength just as well as he knows the age-old secrets of the forest and the elemental forces. And in his enlightening company, Chintamani finds himself in the thick of the events of the most enduring Indian epic. Over the years she has also written several columns, articles and reviews for reputed publications such as "The Times of India", "The Indian Express", "Outlook" Magazine, among many others. Dominant themes of her writing includes musings on literature, contemporary literary practices, the place of women in Indian society and the world at large as well as myth and its bearings in the modern world. Publishing is Gokhale's other love. She is the founder-director of Yatra Books(with Neeta Gupta), founded in January 2005. ‘Yatra’ stands for cross-cultural literary journeys, including translation. Yatra Books is a multilingual publishing company specialising in original creative writing and high quality translations in English, Hindi and Indian regional languages for the emergent internal market.