Aah!!! its hardly three
weeks for my final exams and no matter what comes next I will be an
engineer after that for sure.reading was not my cup of tea though I
read Chetan Bhagat,Ravindra Singh and few others long back.It was
until I join engineering and with not much to do,i took up reading
seriously and thus opening myself to a world of fiction,fantasy,realism and all other things.It was in june 2012 when one of my
friend told me about a book called Chankaya's Chant,busy with the
shiva trilogy it dint created much impact on me.Over with the
secrets of the Nagas,i asked the same friend of mine if he has some
good novel with him and he gave me the Chanakya's Chant and thus
beginning of an epic journey with the Indian Dan Brown.Before I
started with the book I did my part of research on the author Ashwin Sanghi. He graduated with a BA (Economics) from St.
Xavier’s College
and earned an MBA from the Yale
School of Management.He
was already the author of an Indian best selling book The Rozabal Line,which he wrote in 2007 under his pseudonym
Shawn Haigins. But what excited me the most about him was his area of
writing which was largely based on historical, theological and
mythological themes and being a history buff by myself I could not
asked for more.The book deals with the life of Chankya and Gangasagar Mishra,haunted by their past ,the book unfold their epic journey and
how they manage to become a king-maker.The book preys on greed,
venality and sexual deviance that brings out the best of both the
men. The book was quick to have an impact on me and I went looking for
his other book and thankfully I managed to find his latest released of the every year 2012 itself The Krishna Key. It is an
anthropological thriller and his third novel after The Rozabal Line(the last of his novel that I read) and Chankya's Chant.The book
follows a history professor that has to prove his innocence against a
murder charge and solving the prolonging puzzle of the Krishna Key.Alongside a present day story the book portrayed Krishna in a
"perfectly grey character" along with his ruling policies
and treasures,the book also deals with the lost city of Dwarka,Of Taj Mahal being a Shiva temple.The book was again an Indian National best
seller and finding its comparison with Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol.Being a not so famous author in 2012,I was not able to find
his first book The Rozabal Line with any of my friend and I could not
go for the hard copy all by myself,as I am always sort of cash.
Finally after some searching on Mr.Google,who has the answer for
everything I managed to find an Epub version of it and what's next,I was back to
business again.A thriller fiction it deals with the subject of Jesus
having survived the crucifixion
and having settled down in India and how in a strife-torn Kashmir, a
tomb called Rozabal holds the key to a riddle that arises in Jerusalem
and gets answered at Vaishno
Devi.It
also spoke about an ultra-elite group of twelve commandos, similar to
the Deccan Mujahideen,their formation and sole purpose.The book drew
lots of similarties from Da Vinci's Code and was one hell of a page
turner that moved with some serious pace and takes you across every
continent.
In
2013, Ashwin Sanghi and James
Patterson
announced that they will be co-writing an India-based thriller within
Patterson's "Private" series.The novel is on the verge of
completion and is slated for a release on 21 July 2014.With just
three novels old and the fourth one on the line,Ashwin Sanghi has
managed to become one of my favorite writers. If stuffs from Dan
Brown and similar interests you then trust me with the books like
The Rozabal Line and The Krishna key this Dan brown from India will
not disappoint you,rather will blow you out of your mind. So if
you are looking for some interesting book to read this summer,your
search ends here.
