Choice is but an illusion

By Rajesh Pai

About the Book

When rain remembers, so do we.

Mumbai, Pune, Goa, Z rich-Raj moves through cities the way memory moves through time. A coin warmed by other hands.

A pen that writes half a beat ahead. A diary that will not keep to its century. And a woman in a saffron shawl who arrives to witness.

His careful life begins to glitch-metadata naming strangers, reflections answering late, messages stamped only "Noon." Following a thread from a Pune stationer to a Goan sacristy drawer and a bridge where two versions agree to meet, Raj learns destiny isn't a cage but a way of remembering.

Choice is a time-bent love story of recognition and return, where numbers balance and stories confess. As trading floors blur into rain-streaked terminals, the question he keeps asking-What am I, if not memory? -starts answering back.

If every ending is another beginning, how do you choose when the choice has already chosen you?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G4SJ2FVL
• ISBN13: 9798272688767
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"