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The Hidden Hindu

Published
2021
Language
English

Synopsis

A twenty-one-year-old named Prithvi goes looking for Om Shastri, an aghori who was tracked for more than two hundred years before being captured and taken to a high-security facility on an island off the Indian coast. Drugged and hypnotised for interrogation, Om tells his questioners he has lived through all four yugas and stood in both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, and that he has spent those centuries hunting the other immortals scattered across those ages. What he gives up under questioning threatens both the settled version of the past and what comes next.

About the author

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Akshat Gupta

Indian author, screenwriter, lyricist and poet, born in Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh, and raised in Indore, Madhya Pradesh; he now lives in Mumbai. Before turning to writing he ran a family restaurant business. He is best known for The Hidden Hindu, a mythology-and-science-fiction trilogy published in English by Penguin Random House India and in Hindi by Prabhat Prakashan, and has since written The Naga Warriors series. A screen adaptation of The Hidden Hindu is in development with Dhoni Entertainmen...