I was anxious to know who was behind this, who was the traitor, etc. I also like the way the story developedwith right amounts of twists and suspense. Historical India has been constructed well. The author takes us into a believable journey into a period that is so far back – 1900 A.D., and makes us believe these events may have actually happened. Those two epics have been done to death, I am not sure why Amish chose to rewrite it for the millionth time with his current series!Īlthough character development is not excellent, it’s still good. What I liked about the book: A fresh Mythological subject that is NOT Ramayana or Mahabharata. I think this was one of the best selling books in India back when it was launched, that too by a debut author. I finally bought the audio book version from Flipkart. From the day I listened to Amish at the Hindu Lit for Life event I wanted to read this book. I like historical fiction books that have been written after exhaustive research. This is the first book in a trilogy on Shiva, the simple man whose karma re-cast him as our Mahadev, the God of Gods.Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi is the first book of the Shiva Trilogy series published by Westland Books.īook Review in one line: I loved the book, but it could have been shorter/tighter. Is the rough-hewn Tibetan immigrant Shiva, really that hero?ĭrawn suddenly to his destiny, by duty as well as by love, will Shiva lead the Suryavanshi vengeance and destroy evil? The only hope for the Suryavanshis is an ancient legend: ?When evil reaches epic proportions, when all seems lost, when it appears that your enemies have triumphed, a hero will emerge.? Have allied with the Nagas, an ostracised and sinister race of deformed humans with astonishing martial skills. To make matters worse, the Chandravanshis appear to

They also face devastating terrorist attacks from the east, the land of the Chandravanshis. This once proud empire and its Suryavanshi rulers face severe perils as its primary river, the revered Saraswati, is slowly drying to extinction. The inhabitants of that period called it the land of Meluha ? a near perfect empire created many centuries earlier by Lord Ram, one of the greatest monarchs that ever lived. In what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation.

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