Oona: Mountain Wind

Oona Mountain Wind is an intense account by a mother who faces a double tragedy. It is a journey through memory of thirty-three years of her daughter Oona’s life and three and a half of Ilya’s, Oona’s daughter, as Jasjit Mansingh struggles to find meaning in the fact of young lives, so obviously good, snuffed out arbitrarily. Is there a God, and what kind of God is it who allows such things to happen? Is the only reality the tangible one of flesh and blood, of the material world? Is the world of the spirit non-existent because it is unseen? Is it possible that the ancient Rishis and sages got it all wrong? Partly a journal, it slips into memoir and easily steps out as biography through Oona’s own letters to friends and family over a period of thirteen years. There emerges a vibrant picture of a young woman — daughter, sister, friend, wife, mother and development professional — who left the comfort and safety of her familial urban home to explore life in unknown hills and forests far from city lights.