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Gandiva
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 14 2026
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The sea does not speak. But it remembers.
Arka is an honest man in a dishonest machine. As an IAS officer in the Rudrakootam, he is used to the slow suffocation of bureaucracy and the paper trails of corruption. But when he discovers a dead file regarding Shunyatheeram, the Zero Shore, he uncovers a pattern of silence that has swallowed three officers before him.
They didn't just disappear. They were erased.
Following a trail of yellowing vellum maps and scrubbed digital ghosts, Arka finds himself on a forgotten beach where the sand moves with a life of its own. There, he unearths a relic of a previous age: the Gandiva, the legendary bow of Arjuna.
But in an age of offshore accounts and land-grabbing syndicates, a bow is an ancient weapon. Arka soon realizes that the Gandiva hasn't returned to fight a war of arrows, but a war of Truth.
Marked by the Dharma-Bindu, a stinging nexus point on his chest that flares in the presence of a lie, Arka becomes the Invisible Archer. He doesn't need to fire a single shot to make the powerful tremble. He only needs to show them the mirror of their own deception.
In the corridors of power, silence is usually a shield. For Arka, it is a weapon.
From the author of the Rudrakootam cycle comes a gripping blend of contemporary political intrigue and ancient Vedic mystery. If you like thrillers that combine the grit of a legal drama with the wonder of Indian mythology, Gandiva is your next must-read.
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