Chanakya Returns

by Timeri N. Murari

An unputdownable political thriller from best-selling author Timeri Murari. Chanakya Returns covers a vast canvas of power, love, history, politics, betrayals, sex and more. It is narrated by Chanakya (370-282 BC), reincarnated in the contemporary world as the adviser to Avanti, the daughter of the head of a nameless state in India. In the course of the novel, Chanakya poses an eternal question: What shapes our lives - The Power of Love or the Love of Power?

264 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2014

About the author

Timeri Murari is an award winning writer, filmmaker, and playwright, who began his career as journalist on the Kingston Whig Standard in Ontario, Canada. He writes for the Guardian, Sunday Times, and other magazines and newspapers internationally. He has published both fiction and non-fiction, and his bestselling novel, Taj, was translated into 19 lanugages and has recently been reissued by Penguin India. In 2006, he published a memoir, My Temporary Son, exploring the difficulties of adopting a desperately ill orphan. Timeri now lives with his wife in his ancestral home of Chennai, India.

Reviews

[Yuvaraj Niranjanamurthy · Rating 2 out of 5]

got it as a gift and had to read it to say how good the gift was :).
The whole story is on the notion on how once chanakya played his role in the fall on Nanda empire. On the same line, the author has re-incarnated Chanakya in this age and penned his role in the fall of an esteemed corrupted political leader.

[Sadiq Kazi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too superficial and shallow. Begins well but ends on very predictable lines.