Ashwin Sanghi is a good
writer. Since he got great historical background, most of his works are related
to history or the conspiracies. Few months back, I read his Chanakya’s Chant
with a thrilling mood. It was a fusion of past and present, but same subject of
‘Rajneeti’.
So when I take his first
work ‘The Rozbal Line’ which he initially published in the pseudonym of Shawn
Haigins by Lulu Press, US, I just remember my school days in 1988. I got a controversial book ‘Jesus Liven in India’ by Holger Kersten which given me impetus to
read this book.
Before reading of every
book, naturally we will pamper the front and back cover pages and back will be
filled with praises about the book. When I read the back, most of them are
comparing Ashwin Sanghi with Dan Brown, the author of Da Vinci Code because of
the style and narration of ‘The Rozbal Line’. It had been given much enthusiasm
to begin my reading and the first Chapter itself provided me an onset on the plot.
The story begins in the
Rozabal Tomb in Kashmir which contained the body of a person named Yuz Asaf. As per
locals, this Tomb existed from AD 112 onwards! Then the writer telling us a
controversial plot of Jesus Christ’s visit to India, his marriage with Mary
Magdalene and their child and descendants. What a great start! What a great
plot ! After all, the interesting stuff is it is anti- Catholic and its belief
!!
But after reading first
chapter, I felt some confusion and the same has been increased in most of the
remaining chapters. Different places, different time (BC & AD-twisting of
past and present), hundreds of characters etc. Characters are appearing from
different parts of the world (India,
Britain, USA, Korea,
PoK Kashmir, Pakistan,
Afghanistan, Thailand, Israel,
Saudi, Jerusalem, Burma,
Vatican, Japan, Spain,
Turkey, Tajikistan, Greece,
Paraguay, Siberia,
Philippines, Zimbave, Tibet,
Judea, Egypt,
France, Italy, Switzerland,
Russia, North Korea, China,
Malaysia, Iraq, Indonesia,
Iran, Guatemala,
Australia etc.). So the reader will get a clear confusion about the plot and
sometimes slip from the actual thread of the story.
American priest Vincent
Sinclair’s parents are died in an accident. He is passing through some kind of vision.
He is see the life of Jesus, his Crucifixion,
his escape after Crucifixion and
some conspiracy for this escape from death to life and the fabricated story of his resurrection in
third day! As priest, he is getting
total confusion and along with his aunt Martha, he is trying to search the real
fact about his vision. It prompts him to travel different parts of the world
especially, Goa (India)
to find some valuable scripts at the tomb of St Francis Xavier.
The entire plot is
telling one fact; hide the ‘truth’ about Jesus Christ’s visit to India and make terrorism
on the basis of this plot. The plot inside the plot is an atom bomb
attack in Megiddo, Israel
(Like Hiroshima-Nagasaki,Japan).
Like the confusion of BC
& AD, different places, hundreds of characters, different time, and
different flight schedules; you can see different conspiracies are working in
this story. Crux Decussata Permuta, Vatican, Opus Dei (of Da Vinci Code-Dan
Brown), Illuminati (of Deception Point-Dan Brown), Al Qaeda of Osama Bin Laden,
Laksher-e-Toiba, Lashkar-e-Talatshar etc.
In the middle of book,
sometimes I thought why I have to
complete this book so fast because the all thrilling effects are leaking
from the story through unwanted inputs of history, time and places. Writer
utterly makes readers topsy-turvy.
Writer is referring lot
of books, theories, religions (Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism,
Judaism etc.) and sometimes it feels readers so cloudy and unaffordable. I bet even
though you got a ample memory, it is a tough task to remember the characters,
places, incidents and periods of this book. May be writer want to make more
perfection. But I believe readers are not much worried about perfection for a
thriller or fiction. The purpose of reading a historical survey or thriller is
entirely different.
The epitome of this book
is – Don’t compare Ashwin Sanghi with Dan Brown. Both have diffident writing
styles and with different range. Dan Brown is Dan Brown and Ashwin Sanghi is Ashwin
Sanghi.
If you crazy to read
about the ‘interesting plot’ of Jesus
Christ’s traveling to Kashmir, his troubles
after Crucifixion, then you can pick
this book and start your reading. If you are more interest to read a thriller,
then turn your mind and go for any book of Dan Brown. The hard work of Ashwin
Sanghi to gather the information, period, time, places from different sources
is really appreciated. His comparison between different religions especially
the Trinity in Hinduism (Male: Brahma-Vishnu-Maheswara and Female:
Lakshmi-Saraswati-Kali) and Christianity (Father-Son-Holy Ghost) is interesting
to theological students.
Writer
finally says that all religions are good and all going to same one direction. ‘There
is something good to be found in all faiths.
The problem has never been belief but the deliberate interpretation and
misuse of it’
Before
cease, I want to write one more line. May be still my brain is not matured to
afford the plot of The Rozabal Line or it is still indigestible to my mind.
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Book: The Rozabal Line (Paper Back)
Author: AshwinSanghi
Publisher: The Westland Ltd.
Price: Rs. 250.00
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