Rarest of an occaision arise, when some things stir your soul to unimaginable depths of consciousness & titilate that thinking corner of your brain so gracefully yet vigorously. Felt it long ago, the day I finished 'The immortals of Meluha' & 'The secret of the Nagas' & I knew this was going 2 be one heck of a period saga that is so very pedantic & convincing in every aspect & as thrilling as any Dan Brown piece, Although the same was found with even more glory to Amish's writing, in 'The oath of the vayuputras', yet it gave me the kind of conclusion I truely awaited. It puts up a mirror with respect to the epic story of Shiva, & makes us see the current scenario of our society. Myths busted, reinvented & rationalised. I always have delighted in Philosophy as an esoteric art & science of truth. Amish makes it mainstream. He uses every trail of Lord Shiva's life as we have known, transformed it into a much relevant structure, & infused it into the Life of an extraordinary person- Shiva. In the end, its magnificent how he ties all the loose ends of the story to completely replicate it into the saga of Lord Shiva, but in terms of spirituality & virtue. Hail this bestseller.Much beyond the antics of the ex-Indian bestseller writer(dn't find it is safe to take his name :-P) who made a gimmick out of the art of writing a novel...! Finally a fiction that makes the english readers of India proud.
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I found him a desperate critic in need of recognition, and who is still in the trance of thinking that criticizing(even with complete imbecile reasons)what others like makes him intelligent.
Honestly I would not go 4 a bloggers' word. Its easy to open up an account on the net and post something puerile and nonsensical. Meanwhile, Its not an everyday affair to write a book series of this stature. Its easier said than done.
The blogger has a basic defect in his brain of not understanding between underclass english and simple english. I fear he would called Rabindranath Tagore's poem to be not qualified in his eyes as they are the epitome of simplicity. I cudn't stop laughing at the blogger's antics when I saw him comparing different paragraphs from different novels. Complete moronic!
Pt. 2) and Pt.3 What on earth do you need? When the basic attempt of the book was to humanize Lord Shiva, in that case it would be compltly contrived to see Shiva dramatically and magically fight evil alone. Infact the blogger rants about karthik being shown as a great warrior and outdoes his previous antics by comparing him to Rajnikant. Moreover, I don't want to read this superhuman's article anymore whn he says he finds problem with Harry Potter's heroism because he is helped by his friends. No wonder he is a Rajnikant fan.
http://www.quora.com/Govind-Krishna/Posts/What-was-Amish-Tripathi-thinking-when-he-wrote-The-Oaths-of-the-Vayuputras