Decoded

Vidhuna, the protagonist,was born in 2167, the era in which humanity is at its peak of evolution, an era of bliss and harmony, where verbal communication had become redundant, and humans connected on a higher level. Vidhuna has the capacity of the 21st century humans, to communicate verbally, and only verbally and chooses to travel back in time to 2016, as she feels she belongs to that period.

This book is the journey of Vidhuna in our current times, as she gets involved with two families, both battered by narcissism, hypocrisy, and betrayal. Finding Revant, an Autistic boy who helps her navigate from verbal to non-verbal, and John whose innocence moves her. As two social misfits Vidhuna, and Revant step into the time when humans are unable to see beyond the limitations of individual pleasure, and needs. As the world moves towards, materialistic gains, and greed, the families that make the society are stressed, and broken leaving the next generation mentally orphaned, often without values, and integrity.

Can Vidhuna show us that we are spiralling towards destruction? Can she as an outsider change things now?

Vidhuna's learnings, her unanswered questions, as she decides if she has to stay on or leave to her time, where she might still be a misfit.... Read on......

About the Author: Sheeba Sojanar is a single mom who lives with her children in Chennai. A banker for most of her life, she now works for a Financial Institution.  When her son was diagnosed as Autistic at the age of three, she learnt to look at Autism as a different operating system. Her journey with her son, who went on to successfully finish his Masters in Visual communication, in a regular university, inspired her to tell the world, the difference that exists between the Autistic Operating system and ours.

Her journey is even more interesting as she deals with both the Typical and Atypical, as her teenage daughter learns from a differently functioning family.