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"This was a once-in-a-lifetime chance. I came across myself located dangerously close to the edge of any cliff. Far below me was an incredible abyss with no end in eyesight. I could reverse and safely go back to where I put come from, or I could throw caution to the breeze, lift my hands up into the air...and bounce." (From The Elephants in my own Backyard) What goes on when you may spend a decade obsessively seeking a aspiration, and then, in the blink of an vision, you learn you have failed, that the aspiration will not become a reality? In 2003, Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Ladies, playing the precious rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel's Life of Pi. Mesmerized by all the similarities between Pi and himself - both are five-foot-five with coffee-colored complexions, both show a South Indian culture, both resided by a zoo - when Rajiv learns that Life of Pi will be produced into a significant motion picture he is convinced that playing the subject role is his future. Inside a great step of beliefs Rajiv embarks on the pursuit to embody the 16-year-old Tamil schoolboy. He quits university and purchases a one-way solution from Toronto to South India. He trips the sacred rock temples of Pondicherry, he moves to the frigid waters from the seacoast of rural Maine, and explores the cobbled streets of Munich. He befriends Yann Martel, a priest, a castaway, an eccentric old woman, and a load up of Tamil schoolboys. He learns how to swim, to spin wool, to keep bees, and to look a tiger in the eye. Even while he is actually learning how to desire big, to fail, to endure, to love, and to become who he truly is. Rajiv Surendra catches the uncertainty, heartache, and delight of finding ones place in the planet with sly humor and refreshing credibility. The Elephants in my own Garden is not really a quest of goals and victories, but a tale of process and willpower. It is a spellbinding and serious book for anybody who has ever before failed at something and had to discover a new journey through life.
