Ravi drifts through India’s forgotten towns with a restlessness he cannot name. Everywhere he goes, moths gather around him, as though carrying secrets only he can hear. And in each place, a stranger seems to recognise him, not his face, but something far deeper, something he has spent years trying to outrun.
A woman who remembers what everyone else forgets.
A child who dies every night.
A town that insists it has seen Ravi before.
Their stories draw him into a landscape where memory clings like dust, where abandoned places breathe, and where the quietest lives hide the loudest truths. With every encounter, Ravi feels the past tightening around him, nudging him towards a truth he isn’t ready to face.
Why do strangers know him?
Why do the moths refuse to leave his side?
And what does the land remember that he does not?
The Weight of Forgotten Things is a haunting, atmospheric novel about memory, disappearance, and the stories that return when we try hardest to forget.
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Shreyansh Ankit
Shreyansh Ankit is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and currently serves as Associate Vice President at the IIMA Endowment Fund. He has previously two novels: Seven Lives and Search for the Brahmastra, early forays into speculative fiction and layered narrative that laid the foundation for his current literary voice. With a background in public policy, insurance, and philanthropy, he brings a deeply human and nuanced perspective to his storytelling. The Weight of Forgotten Things is a literary exploration of memory, guilt, and forgotten lives set in the Indian hinterland. His writing draws inspiration from oral histories, displacement narratives, and the invisible emotional cartographies that shape our lives. Shreyansh’s fiction seeks to bridge the literary and the real, blending evocative prose with social undercurrents.
