AmishAuthor · Storyteller · Broadcaster · Former Diplomat

Fiction · 3 books · 2010–2013

Shiva Trilogy

The story of a man who became a god.

Setting: Meluha and Swadweep, c. 1900 BCE

Legends of Shiva with Amish — key art

The books, in order

About this world

A Tibetan immigrant arrives in the near-perfect empire of Meluha and finds himself hailed as the Neelkanth, the prophesied saviour. What follows is not a myth retold but a myth re-imagined: Shiva as a man — flawed, funny, furious — who earns his divinity by choosing, again and again, to fight for good.

Beginning with The Immortals of Meluha in 2010, the trilogy became the fastest-selling book series in Indian publishing history and introduced a generation of readers to the philosophy beneath the epics: the nature of evil, the cost of duty, the meaning of Har Har Mahadev — all of us are Mahadev.

Collector’s editions