Amazing book & equally good narration

This book is simply amazing in various facets like story narration, detailing of various customs, the finer points of the islamic conquests, the impact of islamic conquest on a man & a woman.

I felt like I am reading a docudrama with the facts presented in a vey lucid fashion

Amazing way to convey the historical facts using a story like an ignorant Hindu girl falling for a muslim man under the guise of secularism & progressive movement.

Amazing character building that is the muslim husband who switches between his communist ideology & islamic ideology as per convenience.

Then there a character of a Hindu born man who is a typical communist & his encounter with Lakshmi after a key incident is a bull’s eye. He gets an amazing lesson on Karma by life

Then it is also covered on how a child of such union would be brought up & his mindset.

The special privileges of the muslim husband are quite well exhibited.

The characters of a mulla Al Humdulla Sahib & the prince are really noteworthy. Amazing way to convey a message using them.

The depiction of Kashi before the destruction of the Gyanvapi Mandir & then contrasting the out of the world thinking

Amazing depiction on how the Indian history school textbooks are written & how the mainstream media operates.

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A ture hide story of many.....

A ture story which is hidden from indian’s only
By few party which had only one goal to be in power

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Deep insights!!!

Love every bit of this book. The author has shed light and deep insights into some nagging questions I always had about Islam and any other religion that thrusts beliefs and opinions onto others and reject any alternate view. At the end humanity must prevail. Religion is only a source to find peace within oneself through devotion. Afterall, if one can't recognise the value of a fellow human being out anything within the nature, everything else is just an outcome of one's hallucinations and whims and fancies. The ending was also very informative with exhaustive citations and references. Wish I could read at least few of those. Thank you SL Bhyrappa garu for a wonderful book.

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Eye Opener

it has been a wonderful journey listening to the audiobook. The writing is brave and based on facts. Supplement the book with other material and research of your own for better experience.

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A Courageous effort

An amazing book with lots of eye opening facts. Not a lot of writers write about Islam with such clarity. A must read . But what u take away is important... Its about knowing the history in its purest and truest form and understanding the wrongs and the rights.. And then improvising those rules for the betterment of our present and future... A must read....

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A Walk Through The Past....

The book makes a good reading / listening. Narration was good. A lot of research must have gone in to the making of this book, it appears. A good recap of the past!

On the low, the toggling between first person narration and general narration was a bit confusing at times.

overall, 4.5 / 5.

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An exceptional story with truth as it's grain

An absolutely brilliant work of literature with crystal clear vision of history, a work worth of going through by everyone who has slightest of interest around narratives and how distortion of history takes place to further distort the very thought process of a nation. This book blows the veil of evil from "the woke, liberal and progressive" of India who stands everything which stands against the Truth.

S.L. Bhyrappa is an intellectual giant who must be heard more than what he had been till date. Narration goes well at the speed of 0.90X.

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Insightful

Very engaging. I struggled to take a break from listening. The story is thoroughly interesting, thought provoking and mildly disturbing. This requires an open mind and needs to be thread carefully.

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Top Notch

Amazingly woven present and past. Takes on a difficult subject and delivers in a very nuanced way. Exposes hypocritical thinking of pseudo liberals. Well supported by facts and references.

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MUST Listen for every Indian.

Any country must learn from History. No group of people should base their ideology on History, but nobody should conviniently turn their backs to Historical facts. This novel achieves these objectives in a very effective manner.

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