![]() ![]() Curiously Shiva here is considerd a cattle herder who actually was at the foothills of the Himalayas, that doesn’t even make him truly Indian but half Tibetan! A blasphemy you would say? There seems to be rich documentation to negate that. ![]() They did things that weren’t done by normal residents. In many lines of thought, Meluha which we know as the Indus valley civilisation is considered to be the original birthplace of these “Super menâ€. I was curious to see how someone would interpret this treatise of thought. I wasn’t reading it with a religious fervor by any means. I picked the book the moment it was released and spent the next few days reading it. What if this person we revere today as a destroyer of evil was actually a man who rose up to his challenges and acquired the title of Mahadev? These are the questions that set the tone of Amish’s book, The Immortals of Meluha. The Creator, Brahma, The sustainer, Lord Vishnu, and the destroyer, Lord Shiva. To most foreign readers, Shiva or Lord Shiva is considered to be one of the Gods in the Holy Trinity. This had Shiva with the trishul on the background. I saw the preview of the book at Landmark about 3 weeks back in a small flyer and was immediately captivated by the book cover. So permit me to start that new focus of this blog with the Life part. ![]() I have decided after a long time the focus of this blog to be gaming, startups and life (everything that falls under curious observation). Normally, I wouldn’t jump in a book review into the blog. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |