New Releases by Ashwin Sanghi

An ancient secret. A forgotten science. A battle for the future of humanity. Seven thousand years ago, as he lay dying on the battlefield of Lanka, Ravana whispered a secret to Lakshmana about a mysterious technology that held the key to Ayodhya's prosperity and the world's destiny. For centuries, desperately sought by explorers, marauders and emperors alike, it has been kept hidden, safeguarded by warriors bound by an ancient oath. Now, as tensions escalate along India's volatile borders and a crucial defence project teeters on the brink of failure, Indian industrialist Aditya Pillai and South Korean technocrat Somi Kim are thrust into a mission that will upend everything they know. The two realize they must act fast, but never once do they anticipate that they will stumble upon startling revelations about a miraculous force that once connected Ayodhya to Kailasa, the Pandyan Empire, Rome, Damascus, Thailand and Korea. As the forces of past and present collide, a question looms large: who will harness the power of the ultimate enigma, and at what cost? The Ayodhya Alliance spans continents and centuries, seamlessly weaving together science, legend and history in a breathless race against time. In this sweeping, unputdownable story of intrigue, betrayal, survival and love, master storyteller Ashwin Sanghi casts his web wider than ever before, spinning once again a riveting, edge-of-the-seat thriller.

A UNIQUE BOOK PACKED WITH ANECDOTES FROM THE LIVES OF VARIOUS ‘LUCKY’ PEOPLE, THAT HELPS READERS UNDERSTAND THE PHENOMENON OF LUCK AND ATTRACT IT INTO THEIR OWN LIVES. The journey of life isn’t exactly easy. Some people make it through hard work and talent. Some fall by the wayside. And some people are just plain lucky. They are blessed with bloody good luck! But is it possible to attract good luck? Can we train ourselves to be lucky? Apparently, it seems that Dame Luck isn’t that fickle. She is well within our reach. In his first non-fiction foray, best-selling author Ashwin Sanghi explores that critical, much-longed-for element called luck. Through entertaining and informative anecdotes, narrations of personal experiences and vignettes of homespun wisdom, Ashwin gives us a whole new insight into how people can work towards being lucky. It seems that luck isn’t entirely the twist of fate that it is made out to be! Almost inspirational like Robin Sharma, Dale Carnegie or Spencer Johnson, Ashwin Sanghi shows us a brand new side to his writing in this particular book.

A PRIMER ON HOW TO CREATE WEALTH AND MAINTAIN IT, IN THIRTEEN EASY STEPS. The only way to become wealthy is by being born wealthy. Right? Wrong! In this second book in the 13 Steps series, best-selling author Ashwin Sanghi and co-author Sunil Dalal explore how one can become wealthy even if one is not blessed with the proverbial silver spoon. Taking a radically fresh view of wealth, they show that the journey to becoming wealthy is difficult, but not impossible. With some thought and work, wealth is well within anyone’s reach. The steps presented in 13 Steps to Bloody Good Wealth are easy to implement and do not require anything more than your attention and belief. Through fascinating examples, illuminating stories, personal experiences and common-sense ideas, the authors tear away the halo and secrecy that surrounds wealth and how one can earn it. It has been shown that most high-net-worth individuals around the world have created rather than inherited wealth. Read this little book to understand how you too can do it!

A WISE MAN ONCE SAID, ‘BEFORE I GOT MARRIED, I HAD SIX THEORIES ABOUT BRINGING UP CHILDREN. NOW I HAVE SIX CHILDREN AND NO THEORIES.’ In this age of hyper-information, parenting is much like tap-dancing in a minefield. There was a time when parents had nothing to draw from except for their experiences with their own parents. But today, there is information overload and conflicting advice from multiple experts. HOW ARE PARENTS TO NAVIGATE THIS JUNGLE OF COUNSEL AND STILL RETAIN THEIR SANITY? The short answer: common sense. 13 Steps to Bloody Good Parenting uses wit and prudence to show that parenting is not an exercise in theories but about learning on the job. In the patented, no-frills style of the 13 Steps series, the book cuts right through the din of information and advice. Parenting is a huge responsibility. With 13 Steps to Bloody Good Parenting, it can become a more thoughtful and enjoyable one.

A SHORT BOOK THAT PACKS IN MANY TIPS AND TRICKS ON HOW TO TACKLE EXAMS AND GET THOSE MUCH DESIRED MARKS. Students who get good marks are those who are brilliant or those who are cram. True or False? False! There are also students who simply study smart. The Indian education system is a minefield. Negotiating this minefield and emerging with flying colours is a source of great strain and anxiety for Indian pupils and parents alike. Who can guide students to develop good study habits and thus get better results? Enter 13 steps to bloody good marks. After the stupendous success of 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck and 13 Steps to Bloody Good Wealth, best-selling author Ashwin Sanghi (along with co-author, Ashok Rajani) presents a power-packed little book that provides simple, straightforward and effective steps that are a sure-fire way to obtain bloody good marks!

In an investigation plagued by police sluggishness and antiquated forensics, can Kadam, his daughter, Ketul, and Rane break the nexus between corrupt cops, politicians and the mafia, and find the killer before it is too late?

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. Ashwin Sanghi brings you yet another exhaustively researched whopper of a plot, while providing an incredible alternative interpretation of the Vedic Age that will be relished by conspiracy buffs and thriller-addicts alike.

The year is 340 BC. A hunted, haunted Brahmin youth vows revenge for the gruesome murder of his beloved father. Cold, calculating, cruel and armed with a complete absence of accepted morals, he becomes the most powerful political strategist in Bharat and succeeds in uniting a ragged country against the invasion of the army of that demigod, Alexander the Great. Pitting the weak edges of both forces against each other, he pulls off a wicked and astonishing victory and succeeds in installing Chandragupta on the throne of the mighty Mauryan empire. History knows him as the brilliant strategist Chanakya. Satisfied-and a little bored-by his success as a kingmaker, through the simple summoning of his gifted mind, he recedes into the shadows to write his Arthashastra, the 'science of wealth'. But history, which exults in repeating itself, revives Chanakya two and a half millennia later, in the avatar of Gangasagar Mishra, a Brahmin teacher in smalltown India who becomes puppeteer to a host of ambitious individuals-including a certain slumchild who grows up into a beautiful and powerful woman. Modern India happens to be just as riven as ancient Bharat by class hatred, corruption and divisive politics and this landscape is Gangasagar's feasting ground. Can this wily pandit-who preys on greed, venality and sexual deviance-bring about another miracle of a united India? Will Chanakya's chant work again? Ashwin Sanghi, the bestselling author of The Rozabal Line, brings you yet another historical spinechiller.

The year is 340 BC. A hunted, haunted Brahmin youth vows revenge for the gruesome murder of his beloved father. Cold, calculating, cruel and armed with a complete absence of accepted morals, he becomes the most powerful political strategist in Bharat and succeeds in uniting a ragged country against the invasion of the army of that demigod, Alexander the Great. Pitting the weak edges of both forces against each other, he pulls off a wicked and astonishing victory and succeeds in installing Chandragupta on the throne of the mighty Mauryan empire. History knows him as the brilliant strategist Chanakya. Satisfied-and a little bored-by his success as a kingmaker, through the simple summoning of his gifted mind, he recedes into the shadows to write his Arthashastra, the 'science of wealth'. But history, which exults in repeating itself, revives Chanakya two and a half millennia later, in the avatar of Gangasagar Mishra, a Brahmin teacher in smalltown India who becomes puppeteer to a host of ambitious individuals-including a certain slumchild who grows up into a beautiful and powerful woman. Modern India happens to be just as riven as ancient Bharat by class hatred, corruption and divisive politics and this landscape is Gangasagar's feasting ground. Can this wily pandit-who preys on greed, venality and sexual deviance-bring about another miracle of a united India? Will Chanakya's chant work again? Ashwin Sanghi, the bestselling author of The Rozabal Line, brings you yet another historical spinechiller.

A Pallava prince travels to Cambodia to be crowned king, carrying with him secrets that will be the cause of great wars many centuries later. A Buddhist monk in ancient China treks south to India, searching for the missing pieces of a puzzle that could make his emperor all-powerful. A Neolithic tribe fights to preserve their sacred knowledge, oblivious to the war drums on the Indo-China border. Meanwhile, far away in the temple town of Kanchipuram, a reclusive scientist deciphers ancient texts even as a team of secret agents shadows his every move. Caught in the storm is a young investigator with a complex past of her own, who must race against time to maintain the balance of power in the new world. Welcome back to the exciting and shadowy world of Ashwin Sanghi, where myth and history blend into edge-of-the-seat action.

The lives of Arvind Bagadia, a young opportunistic businessman, and Arbaaz Sheikh, a feared underworld gangster, are accidentally intertwined, as they ricochet off one another in sinister and murderous plots of personal and professional one-upmanship, reduced to their basest instincts in their attempts to best the other. As Arvind's business ventures become increasingly more ambitious, they also become shadowy, and, similarly, Arbaaz's rise in the underworld comes at a high cost to him. In each man's pursuit to outwit the other, betrayals abound and danger lurks at every new turn, even as they grapple with personal tragedies and the volatile sociopolitical realities of a nation on the cusp of transformation. Spanning multiple generations and set against the complex backdrop of societal churn from the 1950s to the early 2000s in India, this powerpacked thriller has master storyteller Ashwin Sanghi weaving together threads of the past and present, fact and fiction, history and mythology, business and politics, love and hatred to startling dramatic effect. The Sialkot Saga, much like the other remarkable books in the Bharat Collection, revives ancient secrets, from Emperor Ashoka's Nine Unknown Men to the Rasayana formula-the secret to immortality-in a narrative that will keep you guessing till the very end.

A seemingly random selection of heads of state are struck down by unnamed killers who work with the clinical efficiency of butchers. Except, they leave no trace of their methods. Away from this world of assassins and bloodshed, Vijay Sundaram, a scientist who is wholly absorbed in his work and oblivious to the catastrophe about to stifle the world, is propelled into the labyrinth that is Milesian Labs, a research centre deep in the forested hills of Uttarakhand. What he stumbles upon is a primordial clue to a galactic secret that could accelerate the downward spiral of humankind. Trapped in the midst of the madness and completely unaware of the identity of his actual foe, Vijay races against time to save himself-and humanity. Zigzagging from Rama's crossing to Lanka to the birth of Buddhism, and from the rites of Minerva, shrouded in frankincense, to the smoke-darkened ruins of Nalanda, master storyteller Ashwin Sanghi's Keepers of the Kalachakra is a rollercoaster ride of a novel, and a terrific addition to the Bharat Collection that will leave you gasping for breath.

Five thousand years ago, there came to earth a magical being called Krishna, who performed countless divine miracles for the good of mankind ... Humanity was assured that he would return in a new avatar when the world needed him in the eventual Dark Age-Kaliyug. In modern times, a poor little boy grows up believing that he is that final avatar. Except, the boy 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. From the submerged remains of Dwarka and the mysterious lingam of Somnath to the icy heights of Mount Kailash, from the sand-washed ruins of Kalibangan to a Vrindavan temple destroyed by Aurangzeb, historian Ravi Mohan Saini must embark on a perilous quest to prevent a gross miscarriage of justice and discover the cryptic location of Krishna's most prized possession. Seamlessly blending fact and fiction, master storyteller Ashwin Sanghi's The Krishna Key is a fitting addition to the Bharat Collection, reviving the ancient lore of the Blue God and embedding it into an unnerving narrative of conspiracy and crime set in modern India.

A cardboard box is found on a shelf in a London library where a copy of the Mahabharata should have been. When the mystified librarian opens it, she screams and falls unconscious to the floor. An elite group that calls itself the Lashkar-e-Talatashar has scattered around the globe, the fate of its members curiously resembling that of Christ and his Apostles. Their agenda is Armageddon. In the labyrinthine recesses of the Vatican, a beautiful assassin swears she will eliminate all who do not believe in her twisted credo. In Tibet, Buddhist monks search for a reincarnation, while in strife-torn Kashmir, a tomb called Rozabal holds the key to an ancient riddle. Father Vincent Sinclair must piece together these seemingly disjointed histories, while being pursued by members of a clandestine society, which would rather wipe out all of creation than allow an ancient secret to be disclosed. Featuring cryptic cults and criminal conspiracies and effortlessly stitching together lost legends from across time and space, master storyteller Ashwin Sanghi's first novel in the Bharat Collection is as unputdownable as it is unforgettable.

720 CE. A fleet of boats dock at the port of Sanjan in Gujarat. They carry eighteen thousand frightened souls fleeing the cruelty of Iran's Umayyad Caliphate. Chanting prayers in what sounds like Sanskrit, the high priest consecrates a sacred fire to thank their god, Ahura Mazda, for leading them to a new home and to hope. A mysterious substance is used to spark the flame, but few know of its miraculous provenance. Centuries later, Parsi scientist Jim Dastoor is abducted from his Seattle laboratory and whisked away to Tehran. The Ayatollah believes Jim is the key to uncovering the ancient relic known as the Athravan Star, and his men will do anything to possess it, even murder. From the ancient ruins of Persepolis to the Taliban camps of Afghanistan, from the womb of an Udvada fire temple to the icy mountains of Kashmir, from the dreadful coffin cells of Tehran to the deathly calm of Diu's Tower of Silence, Jim and his historian wife, Linda, are sucked into a terrifying chase across vividly changing landscapes. In this gripping and provocative novel-a dazzling addition to the Bharat Collection-master storyteller Ashwin Sanghi takes his readers through a complex maze of myths and legends that thrill and surprise at every turn.

Santosh Wagh quit his job as head of Private India after harrowing events in Mumbai almost got him killed. But Jack Morgan, global head of the world's finest investigation agency, needs him back. Jack is setting up a new office in Delhi, and Santosh is the only person he can trust. Still battling his demons, Santosh accepts, and it's not long before the agency takes on a case that could make or break them. Plastic barrels containing dissolved human remains have been found in the basement of a house in an upmarket area of South Delhi. But this isn't just any house, this property belongs to the state government. With the crime scene in lockdown and information suppressed by the authorities, delving too deep could make Santosh a target to be eliminated.

When Jack Morgan opens the Mumbai branch of Private, the world's most elite detective agency, he hands the reins to top agent Santosh Wagh. Now, in this teeming metropolis of over thirteen million people where the guilty have everywhere to hide, Santosh goes on the hunt for one elusive killer. A killer who is targeting seemingly unconnected women and placing strange objects at their death scenes in a series of chilling rituals. As the Private team races to find a link that will lead them to the next victim, an unseen menace threatens to destroy the agency from within-and plunge the city into chaos. With countless lives hanging in the balance, Santosh must confront the demons of his past . . . before Private India meets an explosive end.