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Whispers from the Ganga: Twelve Tales of the Past
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 25 2026
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Professor Ashok Mehta spent his life trusting only what science could verify. Then a woman in Agra began remembering another woman's life from four hundred years ago, and everything changed.
Across the sacred cities of North India, from the burning ghats of Varanasi to the crumbling havelis of Lucknow, from the hill stations of Nainital to the shadows of the Taj Mahal, twelve people have been touched by the memories of the dead.
A widow who walked into the Ganga four centuries ago and could not drown. A British constable destroyed for choosing conscience over complicity during Partition. A woman doctor whose life-saving innovation was stolen and credited to a man. A musician whose genius was erased because she was born a courtesan. A nanny who sang a Portuguese lullaby she had never learned. A coachman who kept a terrible secret through life, death, and beyond.
Each ghost carries unfinished business. Each demands to be heard. And when Professor Mehta listens, when he truly hears their stories, something shifts. The haunting ceases. The dead find rest. The living are transformed.
Spanning four centuries of love, injustice, and memory, Whispers from the Ganga asks: What do the dead need from us? And what do we owe the stories we have forgotten?
For readers who loved The God of Small Things, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, and The Ghost Bride.
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