Dani Darius (born October 1975) is an Indian writer and an artist. His best known work is "Shangri-La and Other Stories"—an experimental narrative in short story formats where he explores the underlying theme of Karma and duality. His strange allegories often inveigle the reader’s to a mystical insight. In his own words, he says — "The reader may take from these writings anything she chooses—from nausea and revolt, to shades of their own subliminal history; lingering traces of an atavistic memory, which is very much alive in the air around them, and also, if they choose to—peace, bliss and shade."
In an excerpt when interviewed on the contemporary relevance of his work — "Society changes its outward expression ever so quickly that the contemporary experience is history in record time. It is a matter of perspective of what ‘today’ mean.But I feel nothing really has Changed—whether that revelation had come in a two-day trip to McLeod Ganj (the seat of the Tibetan Government-in-exile) or in the surge of humanity congregating in the biggest religious fair that happens in the world, called the Kumbha-Mela; or even the colonial identity and the mimicry of the Macedonian invasion of ‘Ptolemaic’ East.
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