Ashwin Sanghi Bharat Series Set Of 8 Books : The Rozabal Line I Chanakya’s Chant I The Krishna Key I The Sialkot Saga I Keepers of the Kalachakra I The Vault of Vishnu I The Magicians of Mazda I The Ayodhya Alliance

This book set contains 8 bestselling books of Ashwin Sanghi’s Bharat Series, renowned for his unique blend of historical fiction, mythology, and thrilling contemporary narratives.

Here’s a description of each of the eight books included:

1. The Rozabal Line:

A cardboard box is found on a shelf in a London library where a copy of the Mahabharata should have been. When the mystified librarian opens it, she screams and falls unconscious to the floor.

An elite group that calls itself the Lashkar-e-Talatashar has scattered around the globe, the fate of its members curiously resembling that of Christ and his Apostles. Their agenda is Armageddon.

In the labyrinthine recesses of the Vatican, a beautiful assassin swears she will eliminate all who do not believe in her twisted credo.

In Tibet, Buddhist monks search for a reincarnation, while in strife-torn Kashmir, a tomb called Rozabal holds the key to an ancient riddle.

Father Vincent Sinclair must piece together these seemingly disjointed histories, while being pursued by members of a clandestine society, which would rather wipe out all of creation than allow an ancient secret to be disclosed.

Featuring cryptic cults and criminal conspiracies and effortlessly stitching together lost legends from across time and space, master storyteller Ashwin Sanghi’s first novel in the Bharat Collection is as unputdownable as it is unforgettable.

2. Chanakya’s Chant:

The year is 340 BC. A hunted, haunted Brahmin youth vows revenge for the gruesome murder of his beloved father. Cold, calculating, cruel and armed with a complete absence of accepted morals, he becomes the most powerful political strategist in Bharat and succeeds in uniting a ragged country against the invasion of the army of that demigod, Alexander the Great. Pitting the weak edges of both forces against each other, he pulls off a wicked and astonishing victory and succeeds in installing Chandragupta on the throne of the mighty Mauryan empire.

History knows him as the brilliant strategist Chanakya. Satisfied-and a little bored-by his success as a kingmaker, through the simple summoning of his gifted mind, he recedes into the shadows to write his Arthashastra, the ‘science of wealth’. But history, which exults in repeating itself, revives Chanakya two and a half millennia later, in the avatar of Gangasagar Mishra, a Brahmin teacher in smalltown India who becomes puppeteer to a host of ambitious individuals-including a certain slumchild who grows up into a beautiful and powerful woman.

Modern India happens to be just as riven as ancient Bharat by class hatred, corruption and divisive politics and this landscape is Gangasagar’s feasting ground. Can this wily pandit-who preys on greed, venality and sexual deviance-bring about another miracle of a united India? Will Chanakya’s chant work again? Ashwin Sanghi, the bestselling author of The Rozabal Line, brings you yet another historical spinechiller.

3. The Krishna Key:

Five thousand years ago, there came to earth a magical being called Krishna, who performed countless divine miracles for the good of mankind … Humanity was assured that he would return in a new avatar when the world needed him in the eventual Dark Age-Kaliyug. In modern times, a poor little boy grows up believing that he is that final avatar. Except, the boy is a serial killer.

In this heart-stopping tale, the arrival of a murderer who executes his gruesome and brilliantly thought-out schemes in the name of God is the first clue to a sinister conspiracy to expose an ancient secret-Krishna’s priceless legacy to mankind.

From the submerged remains of Dwarka and the mysterious lingam of Somnath to the icy heights of Mount Kailash, from the sand-washed ruins of Kalibangan to a Vrindavan temple destroyed by Aurangzeb, historian Ravi Mohan Saini must embark on a perilous quest to prevent a gross miscarriage of justice and discover the cryptic location of Krishna’s most prized possession.

Seamlessly blending fact and fiction, master storyteller Ashwin Sanghi’s The Krishna Key is a fitting addition to the Bharat Collection, reviving the ancient lore of the Blue God and embedding it into an unnerving narrative of conspiracy and crime set in modern India.

4. The Sialkot Saga:

The lives of Arvind Bagadia, a young opportunistic businessman, and Arbaaz Sheikh, a feared underworld gangster, are accidentally intertwined, as they ricochet off one another in sinister and murderous plots of personal and professional one-upmanship, reduced to their basest instincts in their attempts to best the other.

As Arvind’s business ventures become increasingly more ambitious, they also become shadowy, and, similarly, Arbaaz’s rise in the underworld comes at a high cost to him. In each man’s pursuit to outwit the other, betrayals abound and danger lurks at every new turn, even as they grapple with personal tragedies and the volatile sociopolitical realities of a nation on the cusp of transformation.

Spanning multiple generations and set against the complex backdrop of societal churn from the 1950s to the early 2000s in India, this powerpacked thriller has master storyteller Ashwin Sanghi weaving together threads of the past and present, fact and fiction, history and mythology, business and politics, love and hatred to startling dramatic effect.

The Sialkot Saga, much like the other remarkable books in the Bharat Collection, revives ancient secrets, from Emperor Ashoka’s Nine Unknown Men to the Rasayana formula-the secret to immortality-in a narrative that will keep you guessing till the very end.

5. Keepers of the Kalachakra:

A seemingly random selection of heads of state are struck down by unnamed killers who work with the clinical efficiency of butchers. Except, they leave no trace of their methods. Away from this world of assassins and bloodshed, Vijay Sundaram, a scientist who is wholly absorbed in his work and oblivious to the catastrophe about to stifle the world, is propelled into the labyrinth that is Milesian Labs, a research centre deep in the forested hills of Uttarakhand. What he stumbles upon is a primordial clue to a galactic secret that could accelerate the downward spiral of humankind. Trapped in the midst of the madness and completely unaware of the identity of his actual foe, Vijay races against time to save himself-and humanity.

Zigzagging from Rama’s crossing to Lanka to the birth of Buddhism, and from the rites of Minerva, shrouded in frankincense, to the smoke-darkened ruins of Nalanda, master storyteller Ashwin Sanghi’s Keepers of the Kalachakra is a rollercoaster ride of a novel, and a terrific addition to the Bharat Collection that will leave you gasping for breath.

6. The Vault of Vishnu:

A Pallava prince travels to Cambodia to be crowned king, carrying with him secrets that will be the cause of great wars many centuries later.

A Buddhist monk in ancient China treks south to India, searching for the missing pieces of a puzzle that could make his emperor all-powerful.

A Neolithic tribe fights to preserve their sacred knowledge, oblivious to the war drums on the Indo-China border.

Meanwhile, far away in the temple town of Kanchipuram, a reclusive scientist deciphers ancient texts even as a team of secret agents shadows his every move.

Caught in the storm is a young investigator with a complex past of her own, who must race against time to maintain the balance of power in the new world.

Welcome back to the exciting and shadowy world of Ashwin Sanghi, where myth and history blend into edge-of-the-seat action.

7. The Magicians of Mazda:

YATHA AHU VAIRYO ATHA RATUSH ASHAT CHIT HACHA VANGHEUSH…

AS THE MASTER, SO IS THE JUDGE TO BE CHOSEN IN ACCORD WITH TRUTH.

A fleet of boats dock at the port of Sanjan in Gujarat in 720 CE. They carry eighteen thousand frightened souls fleeing the cruelty of Iran’s Umayyad Caliphate. Chanting Sanskrit-like prayers, the high priest consecrates a sacred fire to thank their god, Ahura Mazda, leading them to a new home and hope. He uses a mysterious substance to spark the flame, but few know of its miraculous properties or provenance.

Centuries later, Parsi scientist Jim Dastoor is abducted from his Seattle laboratory and whisked away to Tehran. The Ayatollah believes Jim is the key to uncovering the ancient relic known as the Athravan Star and his men will do anything to possess it, even murder.

From the ancient ruins of Persepolis to the Taliban camps of Afghanistan, from the womb of an Udvada fire temple to the icy mountains of Kashmir, from the dreadful coffin cells of Tehran to the deathly calm of Diu’s Tower of Silence, Jim and his historian wife, Linda, are sucked into a terrifying chase across vividly changing landscapes.

Deftly navigating between time and geography, The Magicians of Mazda travels backwards, through the epochs of Islamic jihad, Macedonian revenge, Achaemenid glory, messianic birth, Aryan schism-to the Vedic fount from where it began.

This is Ashwin Sanghi’s most gripping and provocative novel yet.

8. The Ayodhya Alliance :

An ancient secret.

A forgotten science.

A battle for the future of humanity.

Seven thousand years ago, as he lay dying on the battlefield of Lanka, Ravana whispered a secret to Lakshmana about a mysterious technology that held the key to Ayodhya’s prosperity and the world’s destiny.

For centuries, desperately sought by explorers, marauders and emperors alike, it has been kept hidden, safeguarded by warriors bound by an ancient oath.

Now, as tensions escalate along India’s volatile borders and a crucial defence project teeters on the brink of failure, Indian industrialist Aditya Pillai and South Korean technocrat Somi Kim are thrust into a mission that will upend everything they know.

The two realize they must act fast, but never once do they anticipate that they will stumble upon startling revelations about a miraculous force that once connected Ayodhya to Kailasa, the Pandyan Empire, Rome, Damascus, Thailand and Korea. As the forces of past and present collide, a question looms large: who will harness the power of the ultimate enigma, and at what cost?

The Ayodhya Alliance spans continents and centuries, seamlessly weaving together science, legend and history in a breathless race against time. In this sweeping, unputdownable story of intrigue, betrayal, survival and love, master storyteller Ashwin Sanghi casts his web wider than ever before, spinning once again a riveting, edge-of-the-seat thriller.