Telugu | 2012 Yugantham

Vikram was looking for his grandfather, a 102-year-old Vedic scholar named Suryanarayana Sastry. The old man had vanished three days ago, leaving behind a cryptic note on a torn piece of tadpatra (palm leaf): "Yugantham lo, aadhi sangam ki podhamu." (At the end of the age, I go to the first confluence.)

The sky over Amaravati wasn't red. It was the colour of a dying ember, a deep, exhausted orange that felt more mournful than terrifying. Vikram, a documentary filmmaker, stood on the banks of the Krishna, his camera a dead weight on his shoulder. The battery had died an hour ago, much like the rest of the world’s electricity. 2012 yugantham telugu

The year ended. The age turned.