So what has been on my mind for the last two days??Answer: "Life of Pi"..the booker prize winner book my Yann Martel, a Canadian Author. There aren't too many pieces of fiction..be it movies or books..that has forced me to think about it too much. LOP is one such thought provoking piece of work.So what is it about...I am sure most of the people out there know what its about. I knew what it as about even before i started with the book..infact from a long time back. A 16 year old Indian castaway called "Pi", stuck in a lifeboat when his ship sunk with his family. But he is not alone..he has fellow survivors..an injured Zebra, an Orangutan, a hyena and a 450 pound Royal Bengal Tiger! So i thought..this would be fun..an adventure story about 5 friendly different species and how they co-exist with each other. Man, was i mastaken or what? Only when you start reading the book, you know that it is so much deeper than that. Its about faith, its about God, its about religion, its about courage, and its about the will to survive. It makes you suspend your disbelief and get along with what the author wants you to believe...even if it seems highly improbable..if not impossible. The author spins such a web that you are there along with Pi, through his ordeal, wanting it to end, sharing his moments, his terror, ofcourse with Richard Parker around as well. Who's Richard Parker???...he is the Royal Bengal big cat mentioned before!! When the book is in the final few pages...i cant rememeber the last time I felt like crying while reading a book, Well...i didnt cry..I am not that soft...but i felt a knot in my heart at that moment. Something which has not entirely loosened since i have fnished it 2 days before this day. And I have never missed my family, papa, ma and sister so much. This book has the most amazing ending..and u may end up believing in some force which lay within and around us in this world...whether thats god or not..its absoloutely upto you to decide.