Being an outsider in a foreign land, who slowly discovers a place for himself and earns respect of people around him for his bravery as a warrior as well as his ability to love as a friend. A good man at heart with keen understanding who suddenly finds himself being considered God, with attached restrictions on his personal life as a mortal and the scrutiny and ramifications that every action of him gets subjected to. What’s most appealing about the Immortals of Meluha is the character of Shiva himself. He finds a love on this journey and leads one of the greatest battles of the time thinking that he is fighting a “Dharmyuddh” only to discover at the end that he has known only one side of the equation so far, that a change in perspective may change the world for the humans. The reader journeys with Shiva as he starts understanding a new civilisation, their codes of conduct, their problems and their strengths. This is a story of a man, a leader of a Tibetan tribe called “Gunas” named “Shiva”, whose destiny brings him to the mighty empire of Meluha in the sapt-sindhu where he is expected and readily accepted as a saviour thanks to a blue throat developed when he drinks the Somras giving him the name “Neelkanth”. 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.The first part of the Shiva trilogy by Shri Amish Tripathi made it to bestseller list of 2010 and deservedly as here is a book in historical/mythological fiction genre that has the power to grip the reader from beginning to the end with its simple story-telling and lovable characters. 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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