Through the two Vikram-Aditya stories, Deepak Dalal showed me a glimpse of the beauty of Snow Leopards of the Himalayas and the coral reefs near south Indian Islands. Vikram and Aditya are two adolescent friends, who find themselves in adventures dealing with men involved in illegal work during their trips away from their school in the Nilgiris. The travel adventure does more than just telling suspenseful tales. Though the books are committed to a nail-biting plot to hand over the criminal mastermind and bring them to justice, in doing so the author makes use of descriptions of the locations that takes the reader through the geography of the places. The two themes at work are intertwined with each other in depth through the narratives.
The readers are taken into the plot mostly through Vikram’s perspective. Vikram has a special bond with his father. Even though his father never physically appears in the stories, he has a strong presence through Vikram’s initial motivation for the two adventures. It is through his ideas and activities that Vikram and the reader embark upon the journeys.