A foremost scholar of Sanskrit and the Indian spiritual traditions, Dr Karan Singh has written extensively on the Upanishads and the liberal strands within the Hindu philosophical thought. Alongside his impressive oeuvre of scholarly work, he has, mostly unknown to the world, pursued fiction writing. The result is The Mountain of Shiva. Set in pre-militancy Kashmire, his only novel till date takes the reader on an exhilarating journey to the snowclad peaks of the Himalayas, lakes and chinar forests.