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The Krishna Key

By: Ashwin Sanghi
Narrated by: Nikesh Patel
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Five thousand years ago, there came to earth a magical being called Krishna, who brought about innumerable miracles for the good of mankind. Humanity despaired of its fate if the Blue God were to die but was reassured that he would return in a fresh avatar when needed in the eventual Dark Age - the Kaliyug.

In modern times a poor little rich boy grows up believing that he is that final avatar.

Only, he is a serial killer.

In this heart-stopping tale, the arrival of a murderer who executes his gruesome and brilliantly thought-out schemes in the name of God is the first clue to a sinister conspiracy to expose an ancient secret - Krishna's priceless legacy to mankind.

Historian Ravi Mohan Saini must breathlessly dash from the submerged remains of Dwarka and the mysterious lingam of Somnath to the icy heights of Mount Kailash in a quest to discover the cryptic location of Krishna's most prized possession. From the sand-washed ruins of Kalibangan to a Vrindavan temple destroyed by Aurangzeb, Saini must also delve into antiquity to prevent a gross miscarriage of justice.

From the best-selling author of The Rozabal Line and Chanakya's Chant comes yet another exhaustively researched whopper of a plot, which provides an incredible alternative interpretation of the Vedic Age that will be relished by conspiracy buffs and thriller addicts alike. Ashwin Sanghi and Amish Tripathi are considered to be the frontrunners in historical and mythological retelling. This book is part of that trend.

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Book is great, narrator is horrible

loved the story, but the narrator selection is very bad. This guy does not know how to say satyabhama, instead he is spelling it as satyabhum. come on man

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A let down

I was really excited for this book. I had heard from a friend that it's a bit like Da Vinci's code, but set in India. For the most part, that is correct. I really liked the set up that Sanghi delivers in the first part of the book. The characters, the premise, the parallels drawn between the past and the present are all very intriguing and exciting prospects. But as the story moves on, the writing becomes quite lethargic and relies too much on pompous explanations by various characters to proceed the story. At this juncture, the tedious explanations are mistaken as the story. Even the dialogues are pretty unrealistic in the latter stages of the book. However, the most annoying thing about the book turned out to be the aggressive saffronisation that Sanghi fervently projects. When it began, it did seem exciting, but when he does that for almost everything under the sun and in the world, it just seemed like a serious episode of 'Goodness Gracious Me' where the Indian dad thinks everything famous in the world is originally Indian (here it was 'everything is 'Hindu'). After a point, you could just guess what would he saffronise next. The mythological aspect of the book was great, and possibly the thing that made me want to finish the book. The interesting theories that Sanghi began the book with had me hoping that he would set up an exciting end, but it was rather stale, predictable and boring. The treatment of the characters from the mid way point was also a huge let down. I'll still give Chankaya's Chant a go and see if things are better over there, but after this book, I will keep my expectations in check.

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