Nude Before God

Ram Krishna is an artist who paints nudes. Incensed by his wife’s possible infidelity and despite his own conjugal insecurities he engages in an adulterous liaison. Immediately Karma strikes: his wife’s purported lover pushes him to his death into a flooding river. Unclad of corporal existence he hovers above earth and discovers that—apart from his parents dog and a few friends—no one misses him. Dejected he encounters Yama the Lord of Death and begins a conversation that extinguishes his own airs and affectations and makes him see that he may have been wrong about life . . . and his wife. . Armed with a wry sense of humour Shiv K. Kumar lays bare the questions of humanity’s inescapable end plying us with a story of the afterlife that gives us new reasons to live and laugh.