Chanakya's Chant, published in 2010, is an interesting novel that weaves
together two different time lines. The book begins in the year 340 BC,
and shows how a young Brahmin boy is traumatized by the murder of his
father. He decides to take revenge, and uses his calculating brain to
plan it. Slowly, he becomes an expert political strategist and is known
as Chanakya. He uses his skills to unify the country Bharat (ancient
India). This unity, teamed up with his expertise, ensures that the army
of Alexander the Great is defeated, and Chandragupta is crowned the king
of the Mauryan empire. With time, Chanakya gets bored and decides to
use his intelligence to pen down the Arthashastra. Chanakya's Chant then
shifts into modern India, two and a half millennium later. It focuses
on Gangasagar Mishra, a poor Brahmin teacher. It turns out that this man
becomes a puppeteer to people. He witnesses how contemporary India is
riddled with corruption, greed, treachery, and hatred. He realizes that
in order to succeed in this society he too must indulge is such
malpractices. However, Chanakya's Chant highlights the possibility that
this man could be a reincarnation of Chanakya. Gangasagar plans to make a
slum girl the Prime Minister of India. Will this man be the answer to
India?s problem? Will history repeat itself.
Product details
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Navbharat Sahitya Mandir
- Language: Gujarati
- ISBN-10: 818440834X
- ISBN-13: 9788184408348
- Author: Ashwin Sanghi
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