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Today, He is a God. 4000 years ago, He was just a man.

The hunt is on. The sinister Naga warrior has killed his friend Brahaspati and now stalks his wife Sati. Shiva, the Tibetan immigrant who is the prophesied destroyer of evil, will not rest till he finds his demonic adversary. His vengeance and the path to evil will lead him to the door of the Nagas, the serpent people. Of that he is certain.

The evidence of the malevolent rise of evil is everywhere. A kingdom is dying as it is held to ransom for a miracle drug. A crown prince is murdered. The Vasudevs – Shiva’s philosopher guides – betray his unquestioning faith as they take the aid of the dark side. Even the perfect empire Meluha is riddled with a terrible secret in Maika, the city of births. Unknown to Shiva, a master puppeteer is playing a grand game.

In a journey that will take him across the length and breadth of ancient India, Shiva searches for the truth in a land of deadly mysteries – only to find that nothing is what it seems.

Fierce battles will be fought. Surprising alliances will be forged. Unbelievable secrets will be revealed in this second book of the Shiva Trilogy, the sequel to the #1 national bestseller, The Immortals of Meluha.

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22 May 2012
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Amish is a 1974-born, IIM (Kolkata)-educated, boring banker turned happy author. The success of his debut book, The Immortals of Meluha (Book 1 of the Shiva Trilogy), encouraged him to give up a fourteen-year-old career in financial services to focus on writing. He is passionate about history, mythology and philosophy, finding beauty and meaning in all world religions. Amish’s books have sold more than 5.5 million copies and have been translated into over 19 languages.

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Today, Shiva is a god. But four thousand years ago, he was just a man. The hunt is on. The sinister Naga warrior who killed Shiva's friends now talks his wife, and Shiva will not rest till he finds his adversary. Evil is everywhere Shiva looks: a plagued kingdom is held to ransom for a miracle drug; a crown prince is murdered; the Vasudevs - Shiva's philosopher-guides - betray his unquestioning faith as they accept aid from the dark side; even the perfect empire of Meluha has a terrible secret. Unknown to Shiva, a master puppeteer is playing a grand game. In a journey that will take him across the length and breadth of ancient India, Shiva searches for the truth in a land of deadly mysteries where nothing is what it seems.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008593PQO
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Westland (22 May 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 25605 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 400 pages

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Mumbai-born Amish Tripathi gave up a highly successful career as a banker following the enormous success in India of his first book, The Immortals of Meluha, this was followed by The Secret of the Nagas and The Oath of the Vayuputras (jointly The Shiva Trilogy).

His next offering was called Scion of Ikshvaku (first part in the Ram Chandra Series).

Amish is passionate about history, mythology and philosophy, as well as world cultures and religions.

He lives in Mumbai.

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sibabrata acharjee

Breathtaking addictive adventure of Neelkantha

Reviewed in India on 6 April 2018

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Amish Tripathi you are never the less of a magician. I was hate novels and avoid long reading always but your writings force me to love with the book. I have finished the Immortals of Meluha in one day and it compel me to buy and read the second part instantly. I stop using social media just to read the thriller of this story. I lost myself in this book i can feel that i am with Mahadeva roaming around the city of meluha and Swadeep. Now we are goin to entered in Branga.
You rocks Mr. Amish u will be my favourite writer till i live my life.
Har Har mahadeva

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ROHIT GOYAL

May Almighty give us strength to be on right path

Reviewed in India on 14 December 2018

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Two times this book surprised me once when it was revealed that its not Parshuram's father who ask him to kill his mother and secondly when Naga queen and lord of people turned out to be lord Ganesha and Maa Kali.

This book is really very interesting my only worry is how much of the facts are close to reality obviously we dont know what actually happened in past but we should always try to go as near as possible to the truth.

Problem is most of us " the current generation" dont read sacred and ancient texts hence what we saw in Mahabharath or Ramayan or Shiva stories on television became reality for us now these books are bringing new point of view of same stories and coming generation will believe these to be true hence its a great responsibility for writer to be as close to the truth as possible.

May Almighty bless you with wisdom...

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Neha Saini

Must Have Books

Reviewed in India on 9 September 2017

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I ordered the second part before finishing the first one because I didn't wanted to break my flow. Second part opened some secrets. The Shiva trilogy is one of the great fictions. Must own series 👌

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Kewal Chhetri

Both for amazon and book

Reviewed in India on 2 January 2019

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I have always trusted amazon for books. Both for quality and quantity. Unlike other shopping apps amazon gives much discount for good quality books. Not only that amazon have the quickest delivery ever
For the book... The Secret of nagas is one of the finest i have ever read. Infact shiva trilogy in itself is marvellous. Its the blend of action, adventure, suspense, thriller, mystery everything. Most beautiful part is the language. Its very simple to understand and every point is well defined in book. Once you start you do not wish to stop. I had a great time in reading the series.

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GARGI SRIVASTAVA

Savour the novel... It's better than the first

Reviewed in India on 20 February 2019

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The first book in the series tempted me to go for the second one immediately after I finished it. The writing is at a pace in which you'll enjoy every story and every incident. The secret can be guessed by the time you progress through the story. The most loveable aspect is that Amish neatly weaves his own perceptions of the story in the actual story we already know. The character of Sati is shown to be very intense and passionate. The bonus track of parvateshwar-anandmayi is a 🍒 cherry on top. If you love mythology you'll freely appreciate both-the story and author.
I was so excited to read this but i'm waiting to start part 3.

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Vibha

An honest opinion...you should take a look at other 2 or 3 star rating reviews before buying this

Reviewed in India on 14 March 2022

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I bought this book from a local seller and after letting this book lounge on my shelf for about 2-3 years post reading Melhua( first part), I decided to give it a try. Well, to my utter disappointment, this story is unlike the first part. The first part was perfect! The mythological elements spun into an intricate, sophisticated yet magical narrative has left its mark upon my mind till now. Reading this book felt nowhere near to the spell it had cast on me when I had read the first part.
Firstly, this book at times feels childish. Yes childish, because of the dialogues of the characters. Because you know, the Gods and Goddesses are portrayed as humans, it is obvious that they would have some sort of human like qualities but that doesn't mean you would make them say lines like," who the hell is that!" or " what the hell". I mean these lines look cool on modern age story novels/ teen novels. You won't expect a God to speak like that. And secondly, if you want to show some sort of familiarisation with the human nature, the author could have easily portrayed that through human like qualities- like pain, sadness etc( which he has) but adding these kind of lines, words doesn't make the book more grand, it rather appears childish. One example of a book I really loved is Song of Achilles( Madeline Miller)[ this book is LGBT type]. Do read that, how she has beautifully crafted the story, lines, and despite there are gods as human characters, the grandeur associated with the Gods, Demi gods is not lost, would you still feel like you've been elevated to the world of gods while you read the book. Do read it I highly recommend it.

Other than the factors I mentioned, the way story is woven, you do feel grand, magical at some places, as a whole, this is interesting, it will keep you hooked till the end. The character development of Naga seemes more grand and interesting than other characters. But in the end, this character development is balanced out as every character's appearance is crucial for the novel, this is justified. This book does have some meaningful life lessons which are totally unexpected. Overall it is a good story worthy for one time read.

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Sudeep beriwal

THE SECRET OF THE NAGAS

Reviewed in India on 20 October 2020

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After his debut novel author, Amish took my breath away with his second part of the Shiva Trilogy.
It is an absolute delight to read. It compels us for introspection.

Without wrong, there is no existence of the right. And both are inside us. With his words and with his character in the book, he taught us how to be calm and take any decision forward by learning from our past mistake.

He wonderfully narrated that everyone should know all there is to know before reaching conclusions. It helps us to take a well informed and impartial decision.

Eagerly moving to the last part of shiv trilogy.

"𝚃𝚛𝚞𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗’𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚍. 𝙸𝚝 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚗. 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔 𝚒𝚝 𝚘𝚞𝚝. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑 𝚖𝚊𝚢 𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚎𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎."

🙏" हर हर महादेव "🙏

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RS!

Very confusing from start. Not for non Hindu who want to learn more.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 August 2018

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I have watched Mahabharata but this was totally confusing. Only other example I can think of is Gardens of the Moon, from Malazan Book of the Fallen, some readers find that very confusing, they say they are dropped in middle of action, rightattge deep end of the story and they have to learn how to swim. But that ztiryu folds very beautifully, this one doesn't.
I went back to Amazon page a number of times to make sure that this was the first book in trilogy, it is and being the Kindle version, it must be true but I couldn't be certain, even after reading ten percent of the story, there is no explanation as to who Shiva is or how he got his great fighting skills, even basics like who is parents are or his wife ( she was part of the action , then she vanished as we move on). Names and places are very confusing to read and they come thick and fast and one really finds it hard to make sense of it all.
Another disturbing fact is how the temple at Ayodhya is mentioned again and again and a king even donates huge tribute towards its construction. It doesn't really concerned me one way or the other but this is totally wrong, to treat such an inflammatory issue in such a careless way was telling, I was reading the story so I could learn more about Hinduism but I kept feeling like I was looking in through a frosty window, I felt like it not written for new comers, the author was preaching to the converted. I decided to give up as after 10 percent and that is very annoying, I still don't know anything new about Shiva, the mortal man or the Hindu god or avatar etc or who his enemies are or what both sides were doing.
I had to stop, don't feel like going back, I have already bought the book twice and returned it as it didn't make much sense of it at all.
Some needs to write a prequel to the story, because the story didn't make much sense but there were some decent action scenes but obviously Shiva wins, every time.

Taurus

Nice book. Impressive storyline and perspective towards mythology.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 August 2012

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It is a very novel and interesting perspective towards Hindu mythology. The Author's take on the concepts and characters is different from whatever I had heard before; but in a nice way. That said, I should also mention that the narration is a bit colloquial. The author has accepted that his English was 'pedestrian' and the editor helped him out. I must say the editor did not do a brilliant job. Also, the author's understanding of animal behaviour is limited, I suppose. Perhaps he should watch more of the Discovery and the National Geographic channels :) Not that it affects the story in any way, but to an animal lover like me, it just spoils the flavour. Apart from that, I really enjoyed both the books of the trilogy and am waiting for the third one. Happy reading.

KVD

A Must Read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 August 2014

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This is the fastest I have ever finished a book. Its a great cocktail of fact and fiction taking you back 1000's of years in time at the same time also reflecting some of the practices only prevalent in todays modern societies. The unexpected turn of events and the never ending mysteries kept me gripped in awe till the end. It definitely gives you a good hint about Lord Shiva and the powers he commanded. I am so looking forward to the 3rd book.

Arora

Good but not as good at the first book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 August 2015

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A good book spoiled a bit by unnecessary characters who do nothing for the plot. Also there's A LOT of unnecessary engineering detail that the reader can do without, like we don't need to know how to build a ship! Overall though the book is a good read, a few twists and surprises to keep us interested.

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S Raval

Sequel that struggles but still enjoyable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 April 2016

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Following the 1st book in the trilogy this one felt it was not as polished as it should have been and was filled with more additional elements to try and provide content which didn't add to much to the story.
Overall still good progression

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