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Title: Close Call in Kashmir
Author: Bharat Waklhu
Narrator: Manish Dongardive
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-20-12
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
A gripping thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat...
Topography and history of the city, kidnapping, violence, and terrorism, all woven into a fast-paced narrative. Set in Kashmir, Close Call in Kashmir beautifully weaves in the topography of the state.
Terrorist violence and a nightmare drive Shamsuddin Bandey, head priest of a shrine in Aishmuqam village in Jammu and Kashmir, is sent to find out more about some of the 300-year-old scrolls kept in his family's custody for generations. But his actions arouse the suspicions of a top bureaucrat and a history professor. The corrupt duo believe the scrolls may point the way to a vast, buried treasure and they will stop at nothing to get it. Elsewhere, militants break into a museum in Srinagar and steal valuable artefacts to fund their war against India. They also kidnap a woman scientist. Along the way, others are drawn into the action: Michael Zutshi, an American professor nostalgic about his childhood spent in Kashmir, and Ashok Dalela, a CBI officer on the trail of the masterminds behind the illegal trade in antiques.
Members Reviews:
An exciting maiden literary effort
Close Call in Kashmir, a maiden novel by Bharat Wakhlu, is Da Vinci code on steroids. Set in the beautiful vale of Kashmir one loses sense of Time and Space as Bharat hurtles the reader at breathtaking speed around the globe. Mike Zutshi is the Harrison Ford/James Bond character who as a Professor of South Asian antiquities at State University of New York has to return back to his roots in Kashmir to rescue his kidnapped blood sister Namrata. He faces a deadly enemy in the ISI which has replaced SMERSH as the latest agglomeration of bad guys and who the writer has presciently identified as the UE Unknown Enemy of Kashmir.
The writer displays a deft command of the history and geography of Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir. He correctly identifies that the external enemy only thrives when internal maggots like Abdul weaken society and that internal turncoats like Prakash have no religion beyond that of greed and inhumanity. But a great civilization responds to its challenges by turning to its historic strength and tragic Prince Dara Shukoh rises out of the mists of time to unite Noor, a Sufi scholar and Zutshi whose roots are in Shaivism, in a collaborative effort not only to save Namrata but also perhaps the very soul of Kashmir.
An extraordinary first effort revealing great strengths of story telling and imagination. Perhaps in a future sequel the writer can provide a little more detail on the central characters. What does Michael Zutshi look like? Why is he more attached to Namrata in India when he has grown up in America? What is in the heart of a person like Abdul who does what he does? The brief sex scenes are not upto the aesthetic standards of great Kashmiri writers so the author needs to be less bashful about the subject or else the scenes seem to be out of place. The good news is that the story does not end because the Treasure is still awaiting its discovery so there is a lot to look forward to.
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Title: Close Call in Kashmir
Author: Bharat Waklhu
Narrator: Manish Dongardive
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-20-12
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
A gripping thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat...
Topography and history of the city, kidnapping, violence, and terrorism, all woven into a fast-paced narrative. Set in Kashmir, Close Call in Kashmir beautifully weaves in the topography of the state.
Terrorist violence and a nightmare drive Shamsuddin Bandey, head priest of a shrine in Aishmuqam village in Jammu and Kashmir, is sent to find out more about some of the 300-year-old scrolls kept in his family's custody for generations. But his actions arouse the suspicions of a top bureaucrat and a history professor. The corrupt duo believe the scrolls may point the way to a vast, buried treasure and they will stop at nothing to get it. Elsewhere, militants break into a museum in Srinagar and steal valuable artefacts to fund their war against India. They also kidnap a woman scientist. Along the way, others are drawn into the action: Michael Zutshi, an American professor nostalgic about his childhood spent in Kashmir, and Ashok Dalela, a CBI officer on the trail of the masterminds behind the illegal trade in antiques.
Members Reviews:
An exciting maiden literary effort
Close Call in Kashmir, a maiden novel by Bharat Wakhlu, is Da Vinci code on steroids. Set in the beautiful vale of Kashmir one loses sense of Time and Space as Bharat hurtles the reader at breathtaking speed around the globe. Mike Zutshi is the Harrison Ford/James Bond character who as a Professor of South Asian antiquities at State University of New York has to return back to his roots in Kashmir to rescue his kidnapped blood sister Namrata. He faces a deadly enemy in the ISI which has replaced SMERSH as the latest agglomeration of bad guys and who the writer has presciently identified as the UE Unknown Enemy of Kashmir.
The writer displays a deft command of the history and geography of Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir. He correctly identifies that the external enemy only thrives when internal maggots like Abdul weaken society and that internal turncoats like Prakash have no religion beyond that of greed and inhumanity. But a great civilization responds to its challenges by turning to its historic strength and tragic Prince Dara Shukoh rises out of the mists of time to unite Noor, a Sufi scholar and Zutshi whose roots are in Shaivism, in a collaborative effort not only to save Namrata but also perhaps the very soul of Kashmir.
An extraordinary first effort revealing great strengths of story telling and imagination. Perhaps in a future sequel the writer can provide a little more detail on the central characters. What does Michael Zutshi look like? Why is he more attached to Namrata in India when he has grown up in America? What is in the heart of a person like Abdul who does what he does? The brief sex scenes are not upto the aesthetic standards of great Kashmiri writers so the author needs to be less bashful about the subject or else the scenes seem to be out of place. The good news is that the story does not end because the Treasure is still awaiting its discovery so there is a lot to look forward to.