The Witness Tree: A Chronicle of Kora

Beneath the neem tree in Kora, the sky has forgotten how to weep. The earth cracks. The well runs dry. And into this parched silence walks a stranger whose presence disrupts the careful architecture of belief. Radha lays her fevered son at his feet — not from faith, but from the exhaustion of hope. Harish watches through the lens of reason, yet finds his certainties slipping like sand. Bhola's hammer strikes iron, shaping doubt into questions he dare not ask aloud. When Ravi returns from the city to find the stranger gone, he inherits a village transformed not by miracles, but by their absence. What remains in Kora is not divine intervention, but something quieter — the slow, deliberate work of roots finding moisture in stone. ***The Witness Tree: A Chronicle of Kora***is a meditation on faith stripped bare, on communities that rebuild from silence, and on the stubborn resilience of lives lived beneath an indifferent sky. A chronicle of small gestures and their vast consequences — where meaning blooms not in answered prayers, but in the questions we learn to ask when the heavens offer nothing but silence. For readers who seek literature that lingers like dust after rain.