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Secret of the Nagas Kindle Edition
Amish Tripathi (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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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.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWestland
- Publication date22 May 2012
- File size25605 KB
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About the Author
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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From the Back Cover
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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With a cliffhanger conclusion, this first in a trilogy will appeal to those who enjoy delving into works like The Lord of the Rings or The Chronicles of Narnia
Compels one to read till the end [and] leaves one thirsting for more
Shiva rocks!
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.Product details
- ASIN : B008593PQO
- Publisher : Westland (22 May 2012)
- Language : English
- File size : 25605 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 400 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #15,995 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #212 in Anthologies (Kindle Store)
- #220 in Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #232 in Indian Writing (Kindle Store)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author

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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You rocks Mr. Amish u will be my favourite writer till i live my life.
Har Har mahadeva
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...

By Neha Saini on 9 September 2017

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.

By Kewal Chhetri on 2 January 2019
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.



I was so excited to read this but i'm waiting to start part 3.
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.
ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴇᴄʀᴇᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴀɢᴀꜱ
ꜱʜɪᴠ ᴛʀɪʟᴏɢʏ ᴘᴀʀᴛ-2
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 "🙏
⭐⭐⭐⭐

By Sudeep beriwal on 20 October 2020
ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴇᴄʀᴇᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴀɢᴀꜱ
ꜱʜɪᴠ ᴛʀɪʟᴏɢʏ ᴘᴀʀᴛ-2
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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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.




Overall still good progression