The new book on the Bharat Series is a perfect information trove. It made me wonder whether I am reading real account of incidents though it is a fiction. I have read few reviews and I did not take it seriously until I myself read this book completely. The information given referring back to Ramayana and Guatama Buddha has been supported by valid references of close to 60 books which is mind boggling. I seriously wonder as to where would Mr Sanghi find all the time to read so many books to get the content.
Getting a content isn't a big task but putting them across together to stitch a perfect story is where the story stands apart. I felt there were too many characters and references but if you delve yourself deep into the story, you would find a perfect connect.
What according to me makes a story a real interesting one is to start it with a bang and retain it till the end which is the case in this novel as it begins with few leaders across the world losing their lives mysteriously despite being under huge round of security. While there were many assumptions to these incidents, a shadow group called Minerva has been behind these occurrences. Why were they doing this? What was their ultimate motto?
While this was happening in one end, there was another highly secretive group called IG4 which vowed to crack the mystery of the deaths but they themselves gets into deep trouble.
There was a super intelligent Indian Research Scholar who gets hired by a relatively new company which agreed to pay double that of what he was promised from SpaceX,Google etc., Why was he been paid so much?
Probably the first time ever in Ashwin Sanghi's book, the book had lot of pictorial references which has made this an interesting read.

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Listening Length | 12 hours and 45 minutes |
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Author | Ashwin Sanghi |
Narrator | Shernaz Patel |
Audible.in Release Date | 27 May 2019 |
Publisher | Audible Studios |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B07V1BMTB6 |
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I had read Chankya' s Chant and Krishna key from Ashwin and had seemingly liked both of them to an extent so I decided to give this one a try. Now that I have gone through the ordeal, I am trying to figure out whether it was a wise decision. For starters the story has a lot of characters that you loose track which sometimes defeat the story itself which is the case with the keepers of Kalachakra.
The story starts with a high profile liberal Prime Minister suffering a multiple organ failure under mysterious circumstances. As the plot goes on you understand that there is an entity at work which is keen on starting a global war against the Islamist hardliners and plotting murders of liberal leaders across the world.
The Main Potragonist (Vijay) who is a IIT professor and just completed his PHD gets a job in a shady organization called Mellissan labs which is suspected behind the murders. Vijay , though not willingly , tries to uncover the secrets inside Mellissan and establish a link with the murders. The secrets that get revealed and how murders are actually executed becomes the premise of the story.
Interesting !!! Right ... Actually not. The problem as I mentioned earlier that there are so many characters and concepts introduced that it becomes really tiring to keep a track of them. Also introduction of new concepts of Buddhism..Hinduism chapter after chapter doesn't really help. The conversation tend to be more of a QA session which is very difficult to digest. The climax too looks tedious ( I literally browsed through pages for the heck of finishing) as Ashwin tries to bring a logical end to the different characters he had introduced.
All in all .... KEEPERS OF THE KALACHAKRA ... is definitely not a novel 'for keeps' and I would suggest you give it a pass.
The story starts with a high profile liberal Prime Minister suffering a multiple organ failure under mysterious circumstances. As the plot goes on you understand that there is an entity at work which is keen on starting a global war against the Islamist hardliners and plotting murders of liberal leaders across the world.
The Main Potragonist (Vijay) who is a IIT professor and just completed his PHD gets a job in a shady organization called Mellissan labs which is suspected behind the murders. Vijay , though not willingly , tries to uncover the secrets inside Mellissan and establish a link with the murders. The secrets that get revealed and how murders are actually executed becomes the premise of the story.
Interesting !!! Right ... Actually not. The problem as I mentioned earlier that there are so many characters and concepts introduced that it becomes really tiring to keep a track of them. Also introduction of new concepts of Buddhism..Hinduism chapter after chapter doesn't really help. The conversation tend to be more of a QA session which is very difficult to digest. The climax too looks tedious ( I literally browsed through pages for the heck of finishing) as Ashwin tries to bring a logical end to the different characters he had introduced.
All in all .... KEEPERS OF THE KALACHAKRA ... is definitely not a novel 'for keeps' and I would suggest you give it a pass.
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Reviewed in India on 4 July 2018
The story starts with a series of deaths around the globe of eminent personalities. What perplexed everyone was that there was nothing that explained those deaths. A well explained concept of Yamaj there. Many isolated characters with both strong and weak links, historical and current, come together to figure out the what was happening at the Milesian labs.
Characters like Brahmananda and Mikhailov are interesting and the concepts of particle and energy fit well with many situations otherwise very difficult to explain. The unusual detours to Ramayana were a simple turn off as they had little relevance in the story.
The events description, no doubt, has been the typically Ashwin Sanghi way, interesting and snippet type that keeps the reader engrossed throughout. If the reader can connect the parts herself, this is a 2 hour read else one can lost in events and connections.
All in all, an interesting read, if you are bored with those usual romantic, fiction or crime books and want a mix of reality and tantra (read positive) transfusion, this is a book to grab.
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Ashwin is definitely pretty good at throwing in some mind boggling facts and it is heartening to see that he has done is originally this time (The Krishna Key was a rip off, uh oh, Da Vinci code). So kudos to originality this time.
The story starts with a series of deaths around the globe of eminent personalities. What perplexed everyone was that there was nothing that explained those deaths. A well explained concept of Yamaj there. Many isolated characters with both strong and weak links, historical and current, come together to figure out the what was happening at the Milesian labs.
Characters like Brahmananda and Mikhailov are interesting and the concepts of particle and energy fit well with many situations otherwise very difficult to explain. The unusual detours to Ramayana were a simple turn off as they had little relevance in the story.
The events description, no doubt, has been the typically Ashwin Sanghi way, interesting and snippet type that keeps the reader engrossed throughout. If the reader can connect the parts herself, this is a 2 hour read else one can lost in events and connections.
All in all, an interesting read, if you are bored with those usual romantic, fiction or crime books and want a mix of reality and tantra (read positive) transfusion, this is a book to grab.
The story starts with a series of deaths around the globe of eminent personalities. What perplexed everyone was that there was nothing that explained those deaths. A well explained concept of Yamaj there. Many isolated characters with both strong and weak links, historical and current, come together to figure out the what was happening at the Milesian labs.
Characters like Brahmananda and Mikhailov are interesting and the concepts of particle and energy fit well with many situations otherwise very difficult to explain. The unusual detours to Ramayana were a simple turn off as they had little relevance in the story.
The events description, no doubt, has been the typically Ashwin Sanghi way, interesting and snippet type that keeps the reader engrossed throughout. If the reader can connect the parts herself, this is a 2 hour read else one can lost in events and connections.
All in all, an interesting read, if you are bored with those usual romantic, fiction or crime books and want a mix of reality and tantra (read positive) transfusion, this is a book to grab.

4.0 out of 5 stars
An average story though with researched ideas
By Shan on 4 July 2018
Ashwin is definitely pretty good at throwing in some mind boggling facts and it is heartening to see that he has done is originally this time (The Krishna Key was a rip off, uh oh, Da Vinci code). So kudos to originality this time.By Shan on 4 July 2018
The story starts with a series of deaths around the globe of eminent personalities. What perplexed everyone was that there was nothing that explained those deaths. A well explained concept of Yamaj there. Many isolated characters with both strong and weak links, historical and current, come together to figure out the what was happening at the Milesian labs.
Characters like Brahmananda and Mikhailov are interesting and the concepts of particle and energy fit well with many situations otherwise very difficult to explain. The unusual detours to Ramayana were a simple turn off as they had little relevance in the story.
The events description, no doubt, has been the typically Ashwin Sanghi way, interesting and snippet type that keeps the reader engrossed throughout. If the reader can connect the parts herself, this is a 2 hour read else one can lost in events and connections.
All in all, an interesting read, if you are bored with those usual romantic, fiction or crime books and want a mix of reality and tantra (read positive) transfusion, this is a book to grab.
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Reviewed in India on 14 May 2018
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What an amazing book!! Totally what you would expect from the Master Story teller. Only he can probably tie yoga/meditation/vedic practices with Quantum physics so well, so scientifically, so believably. BRILLIANT BRILLANT BRILLIANT!! Is the word. Cant wait for other books in this series!
Reader Tip : few initial chapters you may feel a bit lost as the book moves quite a bit between different character and their history which at that time seem unrelated to each other and/or the plot. It may make you feel uninterested or sligtly bored sometimes but please continue reading as it all very brilliantly comes together and the end will blow you away!!
Reader Tip : few initial chapters you may feel a bit lost as the book moves quite a bit between different character and their history which at that time seem unrelated to each other and/or the plot. It may make you feel uninterested or sligtly bored sometimes but please continue reading as it all very brilliantly comes together and the end will blow you away!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Complex, Thrilling and Beautiful!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 February 2019Verified Purchase
It’s probably the best fiction I have read recently. The combination of ancient & philosophical concepts, world politics, current affairs, drama weaved with effortless storytelling is spell binding.

KP
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fast paced and knowledgable
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 April 2019Verified Purchase
Peeps into history, spirituality with ease and woven into a good storyline. Kudos to the writer for keeping the reader engaged.

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3.0 out of 5 stars
Mildly entertaining
Reviewed in Canada on 22 July 2020Verified Purchase
Much of the of ‘Keepers of the Kalachakra’ consists of a series of disjointed chapters, most of which seem to be there only to impart information on subjects such as Tantric Buddhism, Hindu mysticism, or quantum physics in a rather artless fashion. The storyline, such as it is, is minimal. I actually enjoy such themes in a novel, as long as they are well-integrated into the plot, but in ‘Keepers of the Kalachakra’ brief lectures posing as dialog are shoehorned into the story at every opportunity, and in such an obvious manner as to be quickly annoying. Since I do find the subjects discussed interesting, I persevered to the end of the novel, and found it mildly entertaining, and with some interesting subject matter, but I feel that with a little more work and more emphasis on the actual story, this could have been a much better book.

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2.0 out of 5 stars
Too much detail
Reviewed in Australia on 28 July 2019Verified Purchase
Good story but way too much detail which makes it difficult for the story to flow. The endless background stories are good at first but become tedious when they come at inappropriate points

Anon1
1.0 out of 5 stars
Atrocious. Less of a book, more of a collection of whatsapp forwards
Reviewed in the United States on 16 February 2018Verified Purchase
Having read the author's previous work (Chanakya's Chant - moderately entertaining), I approached this novel with hopes of a good read. What followed was a monstrosity of a novel which was an absolute waste of time and money. The characters in the book are entirely two dimensional with cookie cutter definitions of good and evil. Most of the linkages between ancient philosophies and modern science look like a hastily assembled collection of whatsapp forwards. The villains in the book border on buffoonery, seriously. Like a kitschy bollywood movie from the 90s, every character is daring to launch into a long winded speech on the greatness of the ancients - oh the ancients consequently physics,of the ancients could build formula one cars, oh they knew how to make the best lasagna, etc. -at the drop of a hat. Seriously, when the hero is in a life and death situation, the villain takes time off and launches into a 10 page monologue. No story arc, no semblance of a plot, packed to the gills with pseudoscience and quackery. This hideous work should be abandoned in the rubbish pit and not be allowed to inflict misery on unsuspecting readers.
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