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The Ashoka Paradox
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 18 2026
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The most dangerous weapon is not nuclear power.
It is the belief that it can be controlled.
In 1974, as India prepares for its first nuclear test, a classified intelligence unit discovers something unsettling: every simulation predicting stability collapses beyond a certain point in time.
The anomaly leads to an unexpected source-ancient Ashokan edicts and Vedic metaphors that appear to describe catastrophic energy long before the nuclear age. What was once dismissed as philosophy begins to resemble a warning.
A RAW operative, a nuclear physicist, and a Sanskrit scholar are forced into a race against secrecy, politics, and foreign intelligence agencies-all while the countdown continues. The threat is not an explosion, but a chain of perfectly logical decisions that could destabilize the world.
To prevent disaster, they must do the unthinkable: delay progress, defy power, and reinterpret strength itself.
The Ashoka Paradox is a gripping Indian historical science-fiction thriller that blends real geopolitical events, grounded science, and ancient insight into a tense story about restraint, responsibility, and the true cost of power.
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