If you knew you were going nowhere as opposed to somewhere, would you start your journey? At a young age, Bharat Savur intuitively felt 'going somewhere, becoming someone' as dictated by society was not It. The rebel in him struck out in the opposite direction - the inward journey. And suddenly he found himself sitting like a buddha, watching his breath and...being. Words poured in from an unknown source. They were not the pointing-finger-at-the-moon kind, they were the moon. Simultaneously, he was sinking into stillness and rising into realms that promised nothing yet fascinatingly held everything. Consciousness was having its first laugh. Life's realities appeared unreal. People 'died'. People cried. Was Consciousness crazy to continue laughing?

Bharat Savur has juggled as many mass-media jobs as a juggler does balls. Radio (All India Radio and The Voice of America), Television (Production Assistant and presenter, Sports Round-up, Mumbai TV: one of the first to do so in 1972); Advertising: copywriter with Shilpi and ASP; Journalism (Deputy Editor, Debonair, Associate Editor, Gentleman Group); free-lance writer for a host of publications; fitness columnist for the Hindu Business Line; co-columnist with wife, Shalan Savur for The Deccan Herald and Prajavani; co-author with Shalan of the well-acclaimed book Fitness for Life; author of A Way With Words, a book which described his 40-odd years' mass-media journey.His firsts include co-authoring the world's first cricket-fiction (cri-fi) comic, Sunny the Supersleuth (featuring cricketer Sunil Gavaskar); and being in a team of TV pioneers that brought an educational cricket programme to India's National Television: That's Cricket anchored by cricketer Ravi Shastri, which he scripted and co-produced. The author holds that he has re-invented himself every few years in a mass-media career that is 40-odd years and counting. If so, 'The Long Road to Nowhere: From Is to Bliss' is his latest avatar. To those that know the author, this is his biggest surprise (and perhaps, even shock!) Bharat, a born-again seeker/questor/spiritualist? Hey! who is he kidding? And believe it or not, this re-invented and rediscovered writer is also a fitness teacher! But, seriously, the author takes this 'almost spiritual' autobiography as one of his best works ever. And finally wishes that you find it so too.

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