Bestselling Indian author Ashwin Sanghi is back with a new book this month! Titled 'The Magicians of Mazda', the book is a part of his chart-topping 'Bharat Series'. Hailed as Sanghi's "most gripping and provocative novel yet" by publisher HarperCollins India, the book travels backwards-- through the epochs of Islamic jihad, Macedonian revenge, Achaemenid glory, messianic birth, Aryan schism to the Vedic fount from where it all began. The novel is initially set in 720 CE when some boats dock at the Sanjan port in Gujarat, India. The boats carried 18000 people who fled the cruelty of Iran's Umayyad Caliphate and arrived in India. Many centuries later, a Parsi scientist named Jim Dastoor is kidnapped from his laboratory in Seattle and taken to Tehran. The Ayatollah thinks Jim is the key to uncover the ancient relic called the Athravan Star, and so his men will do anything to have it.
The book is "492 pages of a thrilling adventure that blazes its way through America, Iran, Afghanistan, and Kashmir. It has always been my view that the greatest quality of a storyteller is to get the reader to turn the page. I have painstakingly attempted to do just that," Sanghi had told us about his new novel earlier.
