The Resonance of Aryavartha: Book 1 — The Awakening is published.
You can find it on Amazon.
The novel is set in 788 CE, in a subcontinent that has preserved and extended the scientific and philosophical traditions of the Gupta era rather than watching them fragment. It follows Vidyut and Savithri — a physicist and a systems engineer, in the language of their time — as they become aware of a threat that is not military but epistemological: something that intends to silence the network of knowledge that holds the civilisation together.
It is a science fiction novel rooted in Indian history and philosophy. It takes seriously the idea that the Vedic and Upanishadic traditions contain a coherent and sophisticated understanding of reality — one that, under different historical conditions, might have produced a very different kind of world.
I have been carrying this book for ten years. I hope it finds its readers.