The Immortals of Meluha: The Shiva Trilogy Book 1

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He is a staunch Suryavanshi, Parvateshvar is critical of Shiva's ways with the Meluhans, and is loyal to Daksha. I liked the discussion on what is evil and the fact that what is considered evil or wrong by some people may not be seen in the same way by others. I felt the author tried too hard to flower up the language by using big, ostentatious words repeatedly, and the effort showed. The book had to be re-printed for another 5,000 copies thrice within the next week, and by the end of July, it had sold around 45,000 copies across India. Both Tripathi and Bahri decided that a transfer of the rights of the book to a larger publisher was needed, so as to take the book to higher grounds.

When I first read this book in 2013, I hadn’t read Tolkien, only heard of him and I felt a measure of pride that an Indian author has been given such a compliment.Almost all the characters grew through the book, blossoming slowly to reveal themselves as complex human beings, not just cardboard cut outs. I hadn’t heard of this book at first, nor did the storyline manage to encourage me in any way so that I will take up the three books at once, for I was quite late to the party, to tell the truth. Mumbai-born Amish Tripathi gave up a highly successful career as a banker following the enormous success in India of his first book, The Immortals of Meluha, this was followed by The Secret of the Nagas and The Oath of the Vayuputras (jointly The Shiva Trilogy). However, the once proud empire and its Suryavanshi rulers face severe crisis as its primary river, Saraswati, is slowly drying to extinction.

Daksha – The Emperor of the Meluhans, he is appreciative of every effort that Shiva does to save his country. shiva keeps asking people whats the significance of being neelkanth, and no one tells him that, though we already know that people are aware of the facts.Even in a book series a reader must be able to read a book and have a sense of conclusion which was absent here.