![]() ![]() Those chinks have been ironed out in The Oath. Philosophical discourses interfered with the arc of the story. While the first book was a runaway success, the second book received criticism for bad editing and sloppy writing. ![]() Something far more sinister is afoot - this is causing the river Saraswati to dry up, creating deformed babies and causing cancerous diseases. The Chandravanshis, it turned out, also believe in the legend of the Neelkanth and while their way of life is not as orderly as the Meluhan’s, it isn’t evil. The Secret Of The Nagas suggested the notion of evil is more complicated than the Meluhans would have Shiva believe. The book ends with Shiva helping the Meluhan king, Daksha, defeat the Chandravanshi king. Shiva’s throat turns blue when he first drinks the Somras, giving rise to the belief that he is the Neelkanth, an incarnation of Lord Rudra. ![]() Meluhan citizens live long thanks to the Somras, a drink manufactured by Meluhan scientists. In The Immortals Of Meluha, Shiva, a tribal from Tibet, was invited to the kingdom of Meluha, ruled by the Suryavanshis who are at war with the ‘evil’ Chandravanshis and facing attacks by Naga terrorists. The third and final instalment of the series, The Oath Of The Vayuputras, offers some answers. What is evil? Why does it exist? How does one deal with it? These are questions that keep coming up in the first two books of The Shiva Trilogy. ![]()
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