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RAKSHASA: THE RISE OF THE MAN EATERS
The Rakshasa is a demonic being that consumes human flesh.
According to Vedic stories, the Rakshasas were born from the breath of Brahma when he was asleep at the end of the Satya Yuga. As soon as they were created, they were so filled with bloodlust that they started eating Brahma himself.
The age of man is over. The age of the man eater has begun. It’s Year 3 of the Great Infection and the human race is on the brink of extinction. In the remote Siberian Arctic, Katya, a 15 year old Inuit boy, comes of age amidst growing threats to his nomadic tribe. After his father’s sudden death, he has to lead the tribe and a ragtag group of stranded Indian college students.
Everything is complicated when he falls in love with the wrong girl. Battling enormous odds, as Katya fights for his loved ones, he realizes that the greatest danger comes from the monsters within the tribe.
According to Vedic stories, the Rakshasas were born from the breath of Brahma when he was asleep at the end of the Satya Yuga. As soon as they were created, they were so filled with bloodlust that they started eating Brahma himself.
The age of man is over. The age of the man eater has begun. It’s Year 3 of the Great Infection and the human race is on the brink of extinction. In the remote Siberian Arctic, Katya, a 15 year old Inuit boy, comes of age amidst growing threats to his nomadic tribe. After his father’s sudden death, he has to lead the tribe and a ragtag group of stranded Indian college students.
Everything is complicated when he falls in love with the wrong girl. Battling enormous odds, as Katya fights for his loved ones, he realizes that the greatest danger comes from the monsters within the tribe.
128 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 4, 2019
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Thomas Jacob
32 books8 followersThomas Jacob is an award winning Indian writer and director. His films and documentaries have been screened at festivals worldwide, including the Berlin International Film Festival. His work explores questions of identity, transformation and conflict in India's rapidly changing cultural and social milieu. He stays in Mumbai.
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October 22, 2019
A good book and a quick read. (It took me about 2 months to read because I opted out of my subscription in between.) Looking at the title, I thought the story is set in India and somehow related to rakshasas from Indian mythology. So I was a little confused and surprised when the location turned out to be some obscure place in northern Russia. It is the classic tale of zombie apocalypse, except that the creatures are called man-eaters because, wait for it, they eat people. They are well-built (about 7 feet tall), athletic (can outrun humans), strong and intelligent (can plan, co-ordinate and execute a complex attacking scheme), which makes them completely different from zombies. But infected humans can turn into man-eaters, they smell bad because of the rotting flesh, can't procreate because they are dead, can only be killed by decapitation/head-bashing, hunt mostly at night. Looks like a hybrid of zombies and vampires.
The story revolves around Katya, a teenage member of a Siberian nomadic tribe of Nenets. The tribe rescues an excursion (more like an expedition) group from a Mumbai college who are stranded in the ocean because of the pandemic. How this group faces and fights the man-eaters is the plot. Mix in some teenage romance (not too much of a love-triangle drama though), suspense and survival horror. I enjoyed reading it. Reading about the Nenet life style was interesting. One thing that bugs me is that the word 'Rakshasa' was never mentioned in the book. Even if it was mentioned, it was so obscure that I don't remember a single instance of it.
PS: This book is a three star (liked it), but giving it a four (really liked it) so that those who find this book might consider reading it and because this is the only rating so far. Also, there are no fire spewing, dragon like demons in the book.
The story revolves around Katya, a teenage member of a Siberian nomadic tribe of Nenets. The tribe rescues an excursion (more like an expedition) group from a Mumbai college who are stranded in the ocean because of the pandemic. How this group faces and fights the man-eaters is the plot. Mix in some teenage romance (not too much of a love-triangle drama though), suspense and survival horror. I enjoyed reading it. Reading about the Nenet life style was interesting. One thing that bugs me is that the word 'Rakshasa' was never mentioned in the book. Even if it was mentioned, it was so obscure that I don't remember a single instance of it.
PS: This book is a three star (liked it), but giving it a four (really liked it) so that those who find this book might consider reading it and because this is the only rating so far. Also, there are no fire spewing, dragon like demons in the book.
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