Books Familiar strangers

The book details Gotham Chopra's travels as an international journalist to various global hotspots, including China, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Chechnya, and the Yucatán. Through these journeys, he encounters ordinary people living under extraordinary, often violent or chaotic, circumstances. The narrative explores the spiritual questions and "uncommon wisdom" he finds in these individuals, who have had to dig deep within themselves to survive horrible realities and bear heart-wrenching losses.