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My story is based upon fictional memoirs that were supposedly located in the North of India in 1921. They tell a story of an 18th century British officer and his posting to the colony of Bengal in the service of the east india trading company. Upon arriving he finds the climate brutal, the food treacherous and the people hostile. He views his service as a punishment and is oppressive to the population, however throughout his service he becomes capivated by the indian culture and finds it a romantic comparison to the grey, dull monotonous routines of England of which he always felt apart and disconnected from. Throughout his posting he will encounter various obstacles which further add strain to his love of India and his service in the military. When he is finally told he will be posted back to England he is overcome with despair and decides to resign his commission and stay in India from which the country soon finds itself in the middle of the Indian mutiny. He is denounced by both sides as a traitor and is overcome with grief at the atrocities he has witnessed throughout the uprising as a result of foreign intervention. He begins to publicly denounce the East India trading company's actions by writing to Parliament, the King and The London Times from which he receives no reply. The viceroy of India orders that the main character should be forcible returned to England to face charges of sedition and insighting rebellion. That night whilst under guard he gives his last 6 guineas of pay to the jailers from which they both set about getting drunk. The main character is then able to escape north into Bhutan where he evades capture but becomes weak with dysentery and starvation and collapses at the side of the road. He awakens to what he felt could have been weeks on a woodern floor of a house dressed in fresh linen. There is a bowl of water and a bowl of boiled rice either side of him. The daylight beams through the slits in the panels of the roof and there is a deep melodic chanting coming from outside. When the main character goes to investigate he finds himself in the beautiful awe inspiring landscape of the Himalayas, in a Buddhist village deep within the sheltered peaks. He is given permission to stay and throughout his time there he begins to learn the story of the Buddha and his teaching. He stays in Bhutan for the remainder of his life having finally found inner peace.