Having grown up reading
and watching the likes of LOR, HP and various other series there was always a
void and a temptation to read some original series written in India. Read
something that is grand and builds an edifice for bigger better and mammoth of
books for future. I wouldn’t compare The Immortals of Meluha with LOR or HP yet
it is path breaking in numerous ways for Indian publishing industry and
generations of writers to come. Amish has intelligently crafted a story blending
the great Indian mythology history and his imagination to conceptualize an absolute
page turner.
This is a story of a
simple man becoming the destroyer of evils. The story begins at mount Kailash where
Shiva resided with his tribe in peace from generations yet in near future, they
have been threatened by continuous conflict with pakratis. Shiva is forced to
take refuge and to migrate to Meluha for the sake of his people the Gunas.
Meluha is a perfect empire created by Lord Ram. Meluha is a suryavanshi kingdom
governed by the principles of lord Ram. Meluhan’s are anxiously waiting for the
fulfillment of a prophecy were Neelkantha would rise and liberate them and
guide them to overcome the constant conflict with chandravanshi’s and Naga’s.
Shiva reaches Meluha with his gunas to find Meluha fascinating and near perfect
and are administered with a dose of standard medicine. Gunas woke up with high
fever and sweating but Shiva with a blue throat. Meluhan’s pronounce Shiva as
Neelkantha the saviour and is taken to the capital city of Devagiri. It is here
were the plot intensifies and create a platform for an elaborate towards a
greater conspiracy and complexities.
Immortals of Meluha is
fast paced and narrates Indian mythology in a completely unique way.
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