And through the adventure of the historical man called Shiva, I’m trying to convey my understanding of Lord Shiva’s philosophies.

So the Shiva Trilogy is based on a fictional premise that Lord Shiva was a real historical man whose karma was so grand that people started thinking of him as a God. My books started as a pure philosophy thesis which got converted into an adventure/thriller to convey the core philosophy.

I thought I’d live and die as a banker! Before my first book, The Immortals of Meluha, I’d written absolutely no fiction ever in my life. First up we’d love to know how you became an author? What gave you the idea to write your first book?Īmish Tripathi: Honestly, I never thought I’d be an author. Team MissMalini: Hi Amish! Thanks for taking the time to talk to us. In this exclusive interview, the first time author tells us about his incredible journey, what it takes to become a successful writer, and how he feels about reality television! A former banker, Tripathi was turned down by every publisher he pitched to, before finally deciding to self-publish. This is the first book in a trilogy on Shiva, the simple man whose karma re-cast him as our Mahadev, the God of Gods.Amish Tripathi is author of the wildly successful Shiva Triology, of which two best-selling books are currently in print (the third is slated for release at the end of his year).

Is the rough-hewn Tibetan immigrant Shiva, really that hero?ĭrawn suddenly to his destiny, by duty as well as by love, will Shiva lead the Suryavanshi vengeance and destroy evil? The only hope for the Suryavanshis is an ancient legend: ?When evil reaches epic proportions, when all seems lost, when it appears that your enemies have triumphed, a hero will emerge.? Have allied with the Nagas, an ostracised and sinister race of deformed humans with astonishing martial skills. To make matters worse, the Chandravanshis appear to They also face devastating terrorist attacks from the east, the land of the Chandravanshis.

This once proud empire and its Suryavanshi rulers face severe perils as its primary river, the revered Saraswati, is slowly drying to extinction. The inhabitants of that period called it the land of Meluha ? a near perfect empire created many centuries earlier by Lord Ram, one of the greatest monarchs that ever lived. In what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation.

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