Title: Chanakya: The Legend Begins (Itihasa series Book 1)
Author: Ashok K. Banker
Publisher: Westland Books
Publishing Date: 25th June 2018
My Rating: 4 stars
Links: Amazon
Vishnu Gupta, an eleven-year-old young genius from a village called Chanak is the protagonist of the story and the most amusing character in the book. He has the wisdom and knowledge which could challenge even the greatest gurus of his times.
Vishnu Gupta and his family including her father, mother and three sisters leave for Pataliputra, the capital of the Magadha Empire for attending an intellectual conference. The great Nanda empire has an evil Prime Minister named Maha-amatya Kartikeya but majorly known as Rakshasa. He suspects Vishnu to be his future rival and so took steps in advance to eliminate any future rivalry with him.
The story begins with an interesting and whimsical account of the little Vishnu and his entertaining tactics to avoid sitting in the gurukul. The character of Vishnu is well evolved through the book and turns out to be the most clever and witty one. It was so humorous to read about how he denoted the boys in his age group as The Children! as if he was already a grown-up man. But in cleverness, sure the hell he was.
The character of Chandra was also found in the book and it was pleasing to read about his childhood as well along with the Chanakya.
The writing is convincing and eloquent making the reader fully engrossed in the book. I loved reading this very first installment of the Itihasa series by the author and very much eager to read the next book.
I will definitely recommend this book to all the readers and specifically to the lovers of this genre.
Have you happened to read this book? or thinking of it lately?
Do share your thoughts in the comments below.
-Harshita
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Was going to read it
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Yes! Hope you like it! and would love to know your views! 🙂
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Your lovely image is perfectly suited to your book review.
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Thank You so much ! 🙂
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Wonderful review of this deserving book. Lets wait for the next ones in the series now.
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Thank you so much Deepali! 🙂 Yes! eagerly waiting for the next! 🙂
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You write good reviews. There’s something I want to ask.
Can you tell me, is this book a good teacher? Like, I have read many books, but generally they tell what the character did, but can’t explain how the character did,
Can i know the thought process of chanakya, like how he used to observe the problem and tackle it while reading it.
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Well! this book is all about little boy Vishnu and his childhood amusing story. He is intelligent and has all witty answers to give.
I’m afraid you may not get what you want you’re looking in this book as it based on his story and doesn’t explains how the character acts what he does.
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Thank you for the review. Its quite confirmed that you are a voracious reader, so let me know when find books which I told you about. 😊😊
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Well ! you should go for biographies or auto-biographies, if you wanna learn from the life of great leaders!
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I will look into that😊
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