Bookish

Author: Amish Tripathi
Publisher: Westland
Year: 2011
ISBN: 9789380658742
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The first of Shiva Trilogy, Immortals of Meluha is based on the belief that perhaps the actions, deeds and karma are the only determining factors to metamorphose an ordinary man to a god like figure or god. Amish Tripathi in his book attempts to humanize the Hindu infinite 'Mahadev'-The God of Gods and the destroyer of evil with philosophy as its underlying thesis and with a refreshing take on mythology but fails miserably in the characterization of the protagonist itself and digresses from the related theories.

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