About the Book: Here to Eternity: A Journey from Gangasagar to Kumbh Mela Here to Eternity depicts a fascinating pictorial journey from samsara (day to day world) to nirvana (salvation), a journey that has fascinated scholars and writers, rationalists and spiritualists alike across the centuries. And perhaps nowhere else this journey comes to life more vividly and colorfully than at the Kumbh and the Gangasagar congregation. Barun Datta's camera lingers lovingly on the teeming multitude at Kumbh Mela and Gangasagar Mela to offer us a visual insight of man's relentless quest from the mundane to the spiritual. Datta's camera moves animatedly and the quest for an inner life breathes in frame after frame leaving all of us in a state of awe. About The Author: Barun Datta Born on 17 December,1964 at Chinsura in West Bengal, Barun Datta is an avid trekker which prompted this peripatetic traveler to take up the camera for capturing breathtaking pictures of the mountain landscape. However, the diploma in photography (1996) from Kolkata-based Chhayapath brought about a new perception to his way of seeing. Inspired by HenriCartier Bresson and Raghubir Singh, simple and unassuming Dattawent on relentlessly from place to place to artistically capture life in a state of flux. Anyone with a modicum of knowledge about photography will assert that the photographs of this employee of Institute of Child Health, Kolkata, transcend the time and the place creating a text of the gamut of human emotions from joy to despair.