Shiva Trilogy - Immortals of Meluha

I passed by this book many times over during my last visits through book shops. Somehow I was not urged to pick it up. But again, I read about the trilogy somewhere. I must say I am stunned.

The author has done an excellent job of this box. It is a mixture of old and new, internal struggle of Shiva and his self doubts. The book depicts a lot of how life was to an extend in India. How religion and philosophy is ingrained in the daily lives of human beings. How regular emotions and acts like friendship, love, doubts, treachery is intermingles with a discussion on life, of what is right and wrong, political ideology and foundation of a good civil society.

The protogonist Shiva's travel and life in Meluha and its various people, the advent of Sati, Meluha's society as set up by Lord Ram, its customs and traditions, its obsession to Dharma all seen through the eyes of Shiva make it a page turner.

Meluhan's secret to immortality and their war with chandravanshis are interesting. But impressed me after that is the chandravanshis themselves. the book ends with an interesting paradox that just because someone does not live life ours style does not neccessarily mean that they are evil. Like how I heard it once said, blotted ego in a human is bad. learn to destroy that ego to save the human and not the human himself. You have to distance evil for evil itself.