Tag Archives: Ancient

Enjoying the trilogy by Vineet Bajpai, we have shared reviews on the first two books in this series here: Harappa: Curse of the Blood River Pralay: The Great Deluge Book Title : Kashi: Secret of the Black Temple Author : Vineet Bajpai Publisher : TreeShade Books (20 September 2018) # of Pages : 416 (Paperback) 2744 KB 362 (Kindle EBook) ... Read More »

Author Vineet Bajpai enamoured the readers with his tale set in ancient land of Harappa and modern day Varanasi with his debut on the writing scene. The love of readers encouraged him to continue the saga in form of a trilogy with this second installment in the series: Pralay: The Great Deluge. In some ways, second books are harder to ... Read More »

The historical/mythological fiction genre has gained popularity in India in last decade with a lot of brilliant books re-telling our well-loved legends. Some of these stick to the established versions of the epics, but provide insights and observations like Devdutt Pattanaik, while others re-interpret the epics with their own version of characters as well as timelines. Here, at ThinkerViews we ... Read More »

Exploring the modern take on Indian legends we have been reading Shatrujeet Nath‘s Vikramaditya Veergatha books and we have shared our reviews on the first two books of this series with you in past few weeks: The Guardians of the Halahala The Conspiracy at Meru And now continuing with the series, let’s talk about the latest installment in the series: ... Read More »

The name Vikramaditya symbolises the Ideal King in Indian minds – the Pardukhbhanjan king that went out in the nights to find out how his people were, the king who achieved many impossible feats with from Gods and help of his supernatural friend Vaitala, the king who is a hero, in so many folk tales spreading across Bharatvarsha and captured ... Read More »

Growing up in India means reading and listening to endless stories of adventures featuring Devas, Danavas, Asuras, Rakshasas and of course humans. The treasure chest of Indian mythological tales described in the Puranas and history of the Indian subcontinent captured in epics and numerous works of literature is filled with many larger than life stories. It is an endless well ... Read More »