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The story oscillates from history to mythology, from occult to religion, from exorcism to gunfights, from taantrics to warriors, from love to ambition. It knits 3,700 years, powerful ancient and modern-day characters and a nail-biting conspiracy - all in one literary thriller. Harappa is the first among a series of four books.
2017, Delhi Vidyuts dying ancestor summons him to Banaras. The old Brahmin chieftain of the Dev-Raakshasa Matth, or the God-Demon Clan, bears a chilling secret. Their bloodline carries an ancient curse that will plague mankind - towards its own violent extinction.
1700 BCE, Harappa Harappa is a magnificent city on the banks of the mighty Saraswati river. The darkness of treachery, taantric exorcism and bloodshed unleashes itself on the last devta, paving the way for his devastating revengeand the horrifying truth behind the fall of the glorious civilisation.
2017, Paris The worlds most powerful religious institution is rattled. Europes dreaded crime lord meets a mysterious man in Paris. A lethal assassin boards a train, as Rome fears the worst. The prophesied devta has returned.
What connects Banaras, Harappa and Rome? What was the ancient curse and who was the last devta? What is the terrible secret behind the fall of the colossal Indus Valley? Read on as you travel through a saga of violence and deceit, gods and demons, love and ambition.
2017, Delhi Vidyuts dying ancestor summons him to Banaras. The old Brahmin chieftain of the Dev-Raakshasa Matth, or the God-Demon Clan, bears a chilling secret. Their bloodline carries an ancient curse that will plague mankind - towards its own violent extinction.
1700 BCE, Harappa Harappa is a magnificent city on the banks of the mighty Saraswati river. The darkness of treachery, taantric exorcism and bloodshed unleashes itself on the last devta, paving the way for his devastating revengeand the horrifying truth behind the fall of the glorious civilisation.
2017, Paris The worlds most powerful religious institution is rattled. Europes dreaded crime lord meets a mysterious man in Paris. A lethal assassin boards a train, as Rome fears the worst. The prophesied devta has returned.
What connects Banaras, Harappa and Rome? What was the ancient curse and who was the last devta? What is the terrible secret behind the fall of the colossal Indus Valley? Read on as you travel through a saga of violence and deceit, gods and demons, love and ambition.
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Published by Vineet Bajpai in 2017
Copyright Vineet Bajpai, 2017
All Rights Reserved
Vineet Bajpai asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this book.
This is a work of pure fiction. Names, characters, places, institutions and events are either the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance of any kind to any actual person living or dead, events and places is entirely coincidental. The publisher and the author will not be responsible for any action taken by a reader based on the content of this book. This work does not aim to hurt the sentiment of any religion, class, sect, region, nationality or gender.
HARAPPA
CURSE OF THE BLOOD RIVER
ISBN : 9789352685486
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Vineet Bajpai
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Uttar Pradesh - 201304, India
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Cover Design by
Munisha Nanda
To the one and only,
Munisha
TABLE OF CONTENTS
YOU AND ME.
HERE AND NOW.
HERE AND NOW.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
At the outset, I would like to thank my closest companions that have made Harappa possible books . Yes, you read that right. Books.
It has been possible to envision a tale as expansive as Harappa only because of the continuous and incremental learning I have received from the hundreds of books that I have had by my side over the years. I would like to thank all those magnificent authors who have made this world a better place with their passionate imagination and intense hard work.
While the number is too high to name each one of those luminaries, I have to specifically thank a few here. Diana L. Eck for her profound book Banaras City of Light . William Dalrymple for all his splendid work. Robert E Svoboda for his brilliant book Aghora: At the Left Hand of God . And to many, many other brilliant writers whose writing style has, no doubt, had a rub-off effect on mine - Gregory David Roberts, Dan Brown, Ashwin Sanghi, Arun Shourie, Holger Kerstenthank you all. Learnings from all of the above illustrious writers will find a reflection in Harappa . Or so I hope.
There are several fine institutions that I have been associated with over the last three decades, and I feel compelled to thank each one of them. Air Force Bal Bharati School, Hansraj College, Delhi University, Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, GE Capital, Magnon Group, TBWA, eg+ Worldwide, Omnicom Group, Jaico Publishing House and talentrack. The people I met, studied with and worked alongside at these excellent institutions have shaped my ideas and beliefs, which in turn gave me the intellectual fuel to write Harappa .
Some of the people who have helped me at various stages of Harappa deserve a special mention here. My beloved wife Munisha for the spectacular cover design. My brother Varun for helping me with the editing process. Tanuj Nanda, Denny Joseph, Apoorve Arya and Rukmini Chawla Kumar for their inputs on the books blurb. Rahul Kanonia for the excellent type setting. Vivek Merani for being a partner at every single step, and for being the one person who showed most faith in the book becoming a roaring success. Amit Kukreja for his support on the production process. Ashutosh Negi, Nitin Naresh, Ayush Gupta and Denny Joseph (once again!) for the promotional campaigns of the book.
My dear friends Manishi Singh, Gaurav Bhatia, Prashant Misra, Joydeep Kalra, Naved Aqueel, Sunil Ahuja, Vikas Misra - you are all my strength and my driving force.
There are a few mentors without whom Harappa , or most other big and small achievements of my life, would not have been possible. They include Manoj Ghai, Nishish Jha, Navin Chawla and Praveen Puri.
My parents and my family are my universe, the kindle in my soul. I am indebted to them for all the love that surrounds me. My daughter Vandita is the light of my life, and my nieces Vedika and Aditi its sparkling stars.
Utthishtha!
Rise.
Vineet Bajpai
DISCLAIMER
This is a novel, a work of pure imagination and fiction, written with the sole intention of entertaining the reader. While the content has several references to religions, history, institutions, beliefs and myths, it is all presented with the only purpose of making the story richer and more breathtaking. The author is a believer of all religions, and respects them equally and deeply. He makes no claim to the correctness of the historical or mythological references and facts used in the story.
INTRODUCTION
2017, New Delhi:
Vidyut Shastri, a young entrepreneur from Delhi, gets an unexpected summon from his 108 year-old great grandfather who is now on his deathbed. The old matthadheesh or clan-leader Brahmin from the ancient Indian city of Kashi (Banaras) wants to reveal the secret of a prehistoric curse to Vidyut. A curse that not just destroyed an entire civilization thousands of years ago, but also obliterated its very truth.
Until now.
The dying Brahmin, Dwarka Shastri, is the last among a lineage of guardians of a hidden cellar in the complex maze of a Shiva temple in Banaras. There lies buried a 3,500 year-old encrypted and preserved hand-written scroll. It has a lone Sanskrit couplet written on it, along with a prophecy that during a specific sacred hour in the Rohini Nakshatra (constellation) on the purnima or full-moon as per the shaka-samvat or Hindu calendar, a person of their own bloodline, yet unblemished by the sins of his ancestors, will unfurl the dark secret. He will put an end to the most horrifying curse in the history of mankind.
There is a reason why Vidyut hears from his great grandfather.
The sacred hour has arrived.
Vidyut has been kept away from Kashi by his previous three generations because they are bearers of a spell the curse. It was none other than their own ancestor, Vivasvan Pujari, who betrayed his own people and his own civilization 3,700 years ago. He paved way for the destruction of planet Earths first metropolis Harappa.
But most unforgivable of all he betrayed the great River of the Wise . He turned it into the Blood River .
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