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Five thousand years ago, there came to earth a magical being called Krishna, who brought about innumerable miracles for the good of mankind. Humanity despaired of its fate if the Blue God were to die but was reassured that he would return in a fresh avatar when needed in the eventual Dark Age - the Kaliyug. In modern times, a poor little rich boy grows up believing that he is that final avatar. Only, he is a serial killer.

An ancient secret. A forgotten science. A battle for the future of humanity. Seven thousand years ago, as he lay dying on the battlefield of Lanka, Ravana whispered a secret to Lakshmana about a mysterious technology that held the key to Ayodhya's prosperity and the world's destiny. For...

A Pallava prince travels to Cambodia to be crowned king, carrying with him secrets that will be the cause of great wars many centuries later. A Buddhist monk in ancient China treks south to India, searching for the missing pieces of a puzzle that could make his emperor all-powerful. A Neolithic tribe fights to preserve their sacred knowledge, oblivious to the war drums on the Indo-China border. Meanwhile, far away in the temple town of Kanchipuram, a reclusive scientist deciphers ancient texts even as a team of secret agents shadows his every move.

Welcome back to the shadowy and addictive world of Ashwin Sanghi. After The Rozabal Line, Chanakya’s Chant, The Krishna Key and The Sialkot Saga, Ashwin Sanghi returns at last with another quietly fearsome tale - this time of men who guard the ‘Kalachakra’, or The Wheel of Time. Sanghi describes a world of people at war with one another - a boomeranging conflict of faiths that results in acts of such slow and planned human cruelty that they defy human imagination.

The trajectories of Arvind and Arbaaz, both businessmen of a kind whose lives are unwillingly intertwined, ricochet off one another while they play out their sinister and murderous plots of personal and professional one-upmanship, all the while breaking every rule in the book. Both are unaware that what they seek and fight over is the very obstacle in realising an ancient secret that dates back to a time long forgotten. And yet, at the heart of it all, there lies tenderness...and pathos...and blood...and rare moments of an almost exalted happiness.

Chanakya's Chant is a thrilling novel that tells its listeners about a sharp parallel story between two individuals. One of these individuals is the very person who brought the scattered Indian subcontinent under the reign of Chandragupta Maurya-Chanakya. Chanakya is one of the wisest political strategists to have ever lived in the history of India. The second protagonist is Gangasagar Mishra, who is a rather insignificant Brahmin teacher who seems to be struggling to make ends meet but is actually a reincarnation of Chanakya himself.

In The Rozabal Line, a thriller swirling between continents and centuries, Ashwin Sanghi traces a pattern that curls backward to the violent birth of religion itself.

Five thousand years ago, there came to earth a magical being called Krishna, who brought about innumerable miracles for the good of mankind. Humanity despaired of its fate if the Blue God were to die but was reassured that he would return in a fresh avatar when needed in the eventual Dark Age - the Kaliyug. In modern times a poor little rich boy grows up believing that he is that final avatar. Only, he is a serial killer.

कुछ देशों के प्रमुखों को ऐसे गुमनाम हत्यारों द्वारा मारा जा रहा था जिनके हमलों में क़साइयों की सी दक्षता थी और जो अपने हत्या के तरीक़े का कोई सुराग़ भी नहीं छोड़ते थे। ऊपरी तौर पर शिकारों के चुनाव में कोई कड़ी नहीं दिख रही थी। इस ख़ौफ़नाक कहानी में, अश्विन एक ऐसी दुनिया पेश करते हैं जहां धर्मों के संघर्ष में लोग आपस में भिड़े हुए हैं इस पागलपन के बीच फंस गया है विजय सुंदरम, जो कि एक पढ़ाकू वैज्ञानिक है और जिसे बहुत धंधुला सा

A fleet of boats dock at the port of Sanjan in Gujarat in 720 CE. They carry 18,000 frightened souls fleeing the cruelty of Iran’s Umayyad Caliphate. Chanting Sanskrit-like prayers, the high priest consecrates a sacred fire to thank their god, Ahura Mazda, for leading them to a new home and hope. He uses a mysterious substance to spark the flame, but few know of its miraculous properties or provenance. Centuries later, Parsi scientist Jim Dastoor is abducted from his Seattle laboratory and whisked away to Tehran.

The trajectories of Arvind and Arbaaz, both businessmen of a kind whose lives are unwillingly intertwined, ricochet off one another while they play out their sinister and murderous plots of personal and professional one-upmanship, all the while breaking every rule in the book. Both are unaware that what they seek and fight over is the very obstacle in realising an ancient secret that dates back to a time long forgotten. And yet, at the heart of it all, there lies tenderness...and pathos...and blood...and rare moments of an almost exalted happiness.

A fleet of boats dock at the port of Sanjan in Gujarat in 720 CE. They carry 18,000 frightened souls fleeing the cruelty of Iran’s Umayyad Caliphate. Chanting Sanskrit-like prayers, the high priest consecrates a sacred fire to thank their god, Ahura Mazda, leading them to a new home and hope. He uses a mysterious substance to spark the flame, but few know of its miraculous properties or provenance.

A cardboard box is found on a shelf of a London library. When the mystified librarian opens it, she screams before she falls unconscious to the floor. Within the labyrinthine recesses of the Vatican, a beautiful assassin swears she will eliminate all who do not believe in her twisted credo. An elite army of 13 calling itself the Lashkare Talatashar has scattered around the globe. The fate of its members curiously resembles that of Christ and his Apostles.

एक पल्लव राजकुमार राजा बनने के लिए कंबोडिया जाता है, अपने साथ ऐसे रहस्य लेकर, जो कई सदियों बाद महायुद्ध की वजह बनते हैं। प्राचीन चीन का एक बौद्ध भिक्षु दक्षिण भारत आता है, एक ऐसी पहेली के अनसुलझे रहस्यों को सुलझाने की कोशिश में, जो उसके सम्राट को सर्वशक्तिमान बना सकती है। नवपाषाण युग की एक जनजाति, भारत-चीन सीमा पर युद्ध के नगाड़ों से बेखबर, अपने पवित्र ज्ञान को बचाने के लिए लड़ती है। इस बीच, मंदिरों के शहर कांचीपुरम में अकेला रहने वाला एक वैज्ञानिक प्राचीन ग्रंथों की गूढ़ बातों का मतलब निकाल लेता है, जबकि गुप्त एजेंटों की एक टीम उसकी हर हरकत पर नज़र रखती है।

A ruthless serial killer stalks the streets of Mumbai, leaving behind a gruesome trail of tortured victims. As the city reels in terror, the authorities grapple with a vital question: what links these seemingly random targets?