The Immortals of Meluha: The Shiva Trilogy Book 1

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Ayurvati – The Chief of Medicine, Ayurvati is an intelligent and revered woman, who is capable of curing any disease. However, the once proud empire and its Suryavanshi rulers face severe crisis as its primary river, Saraswati, is slowly drying to extinction.

The best thing about this particular book is that, Amish takes a very holistic route to explain how some great deeds of a man can transform him into a LEGEND and subsequently graduate him into a GOD over generations. The author used over powering adjectives, melodramatic comparisons and seriously strong description. Now, I have to say, Out of all the audiobooks i've listened to, none have had a background soundtrack throughout the whole book! To be able to explain the Meluhans and other stuff, Tripathi decided to put very little focus on the development of characters.Add to the fact that this is his debut book, which was also self-published initially, I won’t take points away from him on this. Sati cannot marry anyone and Daksha is perfecly happy that Shiva is interested in his daughter because he is already a Neelkanth(somehow). Ultimately when his agent decided to publish the book himself, Tripathi embarked on a promotional campaign. Lisa Mahapatra from The New Indian Express was impressed with the story and Tripathi's writing and praised "the interactions between Shiva and Sati, [which were] intriguing. It seems like the Indian version of Harry Potter where Harry, who is destined to fulfill certain prophecy, plays along.

Shiva learns that the potion which made his throat turn blue was actually undiluted Somras, which can be lethal when taken in its pure form.Had I not googled Shiva’s story 15% into the book, I would not have realized that Tripathi has borrowed most of the characters from the original story but not their backgrounds . The author had some good places where he could have ended this book but he chose to end the book with a cliffhanger and a 'To Be Continued'. I have listened to many audiobooks as an avid reader who gets less and less time to enjoy listening and telling stories. The book is based on the belief that perhaps the actions, the deeds and karma are the only deciding factors in transforming an ordinary man to Mahadev - God of Gods.

While staying there, Shiva and his comrades, Nandi and Veerbhadra, encounter Princess Sati, the daughter of Daksha. A mother is considered someone who will love her child unconditionally, protect it from the world and NEVER give up on it is being portrayed by you as someone who will even THINK of having ‘expectations’ for her child? Meluha is a near perfect empire, created many centuries earlier by Lord Ram, one of the greatest Hindu kings that ever lived. Doesn’t this child deserve to be a ruler less than a child born to another person who has the cleverness to be an effective ruler? An uncouth tribal man, who will transcend into a legend and be morphed into a God through his deeds.

It received a mixed review from Hindustan Times, where the reviewer was critical of Tripathi's usage of common, everyday language. Especially that part of the drainage system and the houses being at right angles with each other and the great bath. The Chandravanshi princess Anandmayi explains that they too had a similar legend that the Neelkanth will come forward to save their land by launching an assault against the "evil" Suryavanshis. The story is peopled by characters and places that many who are conversant with the traiditons of India will be well aware of. Many publishers bid for it, but they went with Westland Publishers, who had been the distributing partner for the book.