{"id":5657,"date":"2011-10-16T10:38:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T05:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=5657"},"modified":"2020-11-15T14:30:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T09:00:59","slug":"the-immortals-of-meluha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2011\/10\/16\/the-immortals-of-meluha\/","title":{"rendered":"The Immortals of Meluha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Amish<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first of the Shiva trilogy. The book takes a historical view of Hindu mythology and looks at the Hindu God Shiva as a human who through this actions got elevated to the pedestal of Mahadev &#8211; the God of Gods. Set from 1900 BC onwards, it tracks Shiva&#8217;s journey from Mount Kailash in Tibet to the land of the Sapt Sindhu inhabited by the Meluhans, who see him as &#8216;Neelkanth&#8217;, the incarnation that will help them triumph over evil. &#8216;Evil&#8217; to them are their neighbours, the people of &#8216;Swadeep&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The book is very fast paced and tells a good story. It also has a sprinkling of philosophy, especially towards the end that lends it some (relative) gravitas. Though the book shows no dearth of imagination in bringing a reality perspective to a lot of things we consider myth, what I felt it lacked was a certain finesse of prose, a factor that made it seem corny at regular intervals. But that won&#8217;t stop me from picking up the other two books, and that sense of intrigue is what makes the book a good read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/www.flipkart.com\/affiliateWidget\/simpleBanner?bc=FFFFFF&#038;tc=333333&#038;lc=A52A2A&#038;buy=&#038;affid=INmanublo&#038;id=IT33F9OKEO&#038;type=3&#038;price=yes&#038;border=yes&#038;height=260&#038;width=120\" style=\"width:120px;height:260px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amish The first of the Shiva trilogy. The book takes a historical view of Hindu mythology and looks at the Hindu God Shiva as a human who through this actions got elevated to the pedestal of Mahadev &#8211; the God of Gods. Set from 1900 BC onwards, it tracks Shiva&#8217;s journey from Mount Kailash in <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2011\/10\/16\/the-immortals-of-meluha\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,6007],"tags":[2031,1369],"class_list":["post-5657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fiction","tag-amish","tag-the-immortals-of-meluha"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5957,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions\/5957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}