Jeevsiddhi – Chanakya’s Spy: Chanakya had a vision for a united country that could fight big foreign forces. Yet, danger lurks over the young Chandragupta Maurya in the form of Amartya Rakshasa, the Nanda Empire’s faithful minister who is out to avenge his slain masters. Chanakya sends forward his b...
In a country that was ruled by the Mughals in the north and the Deccan sultanates in the south, Shivaji Bhonsale, a jagirdar’s son began at the age of 16 to bring down a 200 year old empire with a handful of soldiers. Practicers of Ganimi kava or Shiva sutra, Shivaji’s army overcame its small size b...
A Sufi poet, a princess by birth, a children’s author, Noor Inayat Khan grew up in the midst of the growing Sufi movement in Europe. But as World War II drew close, Noor walks into the most dangerous post in all of Paris – that of the sole link between the rebel groups of France and their support sy...
Kacha’s story is from a time when both gods and demons were mortal, existing as warring tribes. However, there is a turn of events when the preceptor of the demons, Shukracharya is blessed with the knowledge of sanjeevani which he uses to bring demons back to life. To learn the secret that has been ...
When India fought its first war of Independence in 1857, the military towns across the state rose against the gross injustice of the British. Enraged by her degraded condition, Azeezun a courtesan who had traveled from the cultural Lucknow to the gritty city of Kanpur just to be independent decide...
Known as the Black Tiger in the intelligence agencies of India, Ravindra Kaushik was sent to Pakistan as a double agent at the age of 22. As Nabi Ahmed Shakir, Kaushik was given a new identity and sent into Pakistan in 1975. Taking up a family and a law degree in Pakistan, he was fully internalized ...
Saraswathi Rajamani – Netaji’s Spy: Born to a wealthy Indian family in Burma that actively supported the nonviolent path preached by Gandhi, Saraswathi at the age of 10 decided that for India to be truly independent, force would be required and the perpetrators of injustice must be made to pay for t...
Married to a revolutionary at the age of 11, Durgavati Vohra was literally raised in an atmosphere that preached selfreliance, active rebellion and resistance of the British in every manner possible. Durga bhabhi was actively involved in planning and execution of several of the HSRA’s activities. On...
Chand Bardai The Poet Spy: A court poet, a jester, and a master of disguises, Chand Bardai served under Prithviraj Chauhan, the king of the Hindu Chauhan dynasty that ruled over Ajmer and Delhi. Faithful to his master, Bardai was involved in helping Chauhan’s beloved Sanyukta escape from Kannauj on ...
While still in its earliest days, Kao and KSN managed to put together a brilliant team of men who were trained in guerilla warfare and weakened the presence of West Pakistan soldiers in Bangladesh before the actual Indian army could even enter the field of action. While Kao planned from Delhi, KSN w...
Sharan Kaur The Warrior Spy: Sharni was an 18 year old Hindu girl living in the North West frontier province. Kidnapped on her wedding by a group of fierce dacoits, Sharni was freed by the army of Hari Singh Nalwa, the great commander of the Sikh empire. Grateful to Nalwa for having been freed her f...
In 1988, post the death of Indira Gandhi and the disastrous operation Blue Star where the army is infamously known to have entered the innermost sanctums of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the terrorists had slowly begun to regroup in the temple again, this time with more leaders and even larger numb...
English
28 August 2019
History, Non Fiction, Drama, science fiction, War, Military
Raaghav Dar, Nidhi Tuli