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#1 in the Bharat Series
A cardboard box is found on a shelf in a London library where a copy of the Mahabharata should have been. When the mystified librarian opens it, she screams and falls unconscious to the floor. An elite group that calls itself the Lashkar-e-Talatashar has scattered around the globe, the fate of its members curiously resembling that of Christ and his Apostles. Their agenda is Armageddon. In the labyrinthine recesses of the Vatican, a beautiful assassin swears she will eliminate all who do not believe in her twisted credo. In Tibet, Buddhist monks search for a reincarnation, while in strife-torn Kashmir, a tomb called Rozabal holds the key to an ancient riddle. Father Vincent Sinclair must piece together these seemingly disjointed histories, while being pursued by members of a clandestine society, which would rather wipe out all of creation than allow an ancient secret to be disclosed.
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#2 in the Bharat Series
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. Satisfied-and a little bored-by his success as a kingmaker, through the simple summoning of his gifted mind, he recedes into the shadows to write his Arthashastra, the 'science of wealth'. 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 individuals-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 Gangasagar's feasting ground. Can this wily pandit-who preys on greed, venality and sexual deviance-bring about another miracle of a united India? Will Chanakya's chant work again?
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#3 in the Bharat Series
Five thousand years ago, there came to earth a magical being called Krishna, who performed countless divine miracles for the good of mankind ... Humanity was assured that he would return in a new avatar when the world needed him in the eventual Dark Age-Kaliyug. In modern times, a poor little boy grows up believing that he is that final avatar. Except, the boy is a serial killer. In this heart-stopping tale, the arrival of a murderer who executes his gruesome and brilliantly thought-out schemes in the name of God is the first clue to a sinister conspiracy to expose an ancient secret-Krishna's priceless legacy to mankind. From the submerged remains of Dwarka and the mysterious lingam of Somnath to the icy heights of Mount Kailash, from the sand-washed ruins of Kalibangan to a Vrindavan temple destroyed by Aurangzeb, historian Ravi Mohan Saini must embark on a perilous quest to prevent a gross miscarriage of justice and discover the cryptic location of Krishna's most prized possession.
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#4 in the Bharat Series
The lives of Arvind Bagadia, a young opportunistic businessman, and Arbaaz Sheikh, a feared underworld gangster, are accidentally intertwined, as they ricochet off one another in sinister and murderous plots of personal and professional one-upmanship, reduced to their basest instincts in their attempts to best the other. As Arvind's business ventures become increasingly more ambitious, they also become shadowy, and, similarly, Arbaaz's rise in the underworld comes at a high cost to him. In each man's pursuit to outwit the other, betrayals abound and danger lurks at every new turn, even as they grapple with personal tragedies and the volatile sociopolitical realities of a nation on the cusp of transformation.
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#5 in the Bharat Series
A seemingly random selection of heads of state are struck down by unnamed killers who work with the clinical efficiency of butchers. Except, they leave no trace of their methods. Away from this world of assassins and bloodshed, Vijay Sundaram, a scientist who is wholly absorbed in his work and oblivious to the catastrophe about to stifle the world, is propelled into the labyrinth that is Milesian Labs, a research centre deep in the forested hills of Uttarakhand. What he stumbles upon is a primordial clue to a galactic secret that could accelerate the downward spiral of humankind. Trapped in the midst of the madness and completely unaware of the identity of his actual foe, Vijay races against time to save himself-and humanity.
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#6 in the Bharat Series
A Pallava prince travels to Cambodia to be crowned king, carrying with him secrets that will be the cause of great wars many centuries later. A Buddhist monk in ancient China treks south to India, searching for the missing pieces of a puzzle that could make his emperor all-powerful. A Neolithic tribe fights to preserve their sacred knowledge, oblivious to the war drums on the Indo-China border. Meanwhile, far away in the temple town of Kanchipuram, a reclusive scientist deciphers ancient texts even as a team of secret agents shadows his every move. Caught in the storm is a young investigator with a complex past of her own, who must race against time to maintain the balance of power in the new world.
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#7 in the Bharat Series
720 CE. A fleet of boats dock at the port of Sanjan in Gujarat. They carry eighteen thousand frightened souls fleeing the cruelty of Iran's Umayyad Caliphate. Chanting prayers in what sounds like Sanskrit, the high priest consecrates a sacred fire to thank their god, Ahura Mazda, for leading them to a new home and to hope. A mysterious substance is used to spark the flame, but few know of its miraculous provenance. Centuries later, Parsi scientist Jim Dastoor is abducted from his Seattle laboratory and whisked away to Tehran. The Ayatollah believes Jim is the key to uncovering the ancient relic known as the Athravan Star, and his men will do anything to possess it, even murder. From the ancient ruins of Persepolis to the Taliban camps of Afghanistan, from the womb of an Udvada fire temple to the icy mountains of Kashmir, from the dreadful coffin cells of Tehran to the deathly calm of Diu's Tower of Silence, Jim and his historian wife, Linda, are sucked into a terrifying chase across vividly changing landscapes.
