Ashwin Sanghi
The year is 340 BC. A hunted, haunted Brahmin youth vows revenge for the gruesome murder of his beloved father. Cold, calculating, cruel and armed with a complete absence of accepted morals, he becomes the most powerful political strategist in Bharat and succeeds in uniting a ragged country against the invasion of the army of that demigod, Alexander the Great. Pitting the weak edges of both forces against each other, he pulls off a wicked and astonishing victory and succeeds in installing Chandragupta on the throne of the mighty Mauryan empire.,History knows him as the brilliant strategist Chanakya. Satisfiedâ€”and a little boredâ€”by his success as a kingmaker, through the simple summoning of his gifted mind, he recedes into the shadows to write his Arthashastra, the â€˜science of wealthâ€™. But history, which exults in repeating itself, revives Chanakya two and a half millennia later, in the avatar of Gangasagar Mishra, a Brahmin teacher in smalltown India who becomes puppeteer to a host of ambitious individualsâ€”including a certain slumchild who grows up into a beautiful and powerful woman.,Modern India happens to be just as riven as ancient Bharat by class hatred, corruption and divisive politics and this landscape is Gangasagarâ€™s feasting ground. Can this wily panditâ€”who preys on greed, venality and sexual devianceâ€”bring about another miracle of a united India? Will Chanakyaâ€™s chant work again? Ashwin Sanghi, the bestselling author of The Rozabal Line, brings you yet another historical spinechiller.
Fiction,Historical,Historical Fiction,Asian Literature,Indian Literature,Thriller,Cultural,India,Fantasy,Mythology,Politics,Fantasy,Historical,Mystery
Chanakya's Chant