Tugli lives happily in a metal box on a friendly street where vendors hawk wares and a Buddhist stupa sits at his back. Everything pretty much goes the same way for a long time, until one day, the pickle lady stops delivering the pickles. After that, a disgruntled monkey, a three-legged dog and a kindly old woman pretty much disrupt the course of Tugli’s life forever.Keywords: monkey, fable, talking animals, animals, monkey, dog, pickles, children, middle grade, India, Tibetan, Dharamsala, Himalayas, travel stories, metaphysical and visionary