Rudhirjatika by Mriganka Chakraborty [Hardcover]

What exactly did Emperor Napoleon see inside the Pyramid of Giza that night? What did Radha Gupta and Emperor Ashoka’s secret council of nine trusted men witness inside the overgrown, abandoned cave of Nandanagar that made their blood run cold? Before she vanished, the girl who had come to the temple of Goddess Myrlinda for ritual prostitution had heard a forbidden chant—uttered in an incomprehensible language. Whose portrait is that grotesque image painted on the wall of the Temple of Priapus? The moment a human sacrifice was made in front of the idol of the god Pan, the earth beneath split open, and a naked female figure emerged. In the city of Calcutta, one courtesan after another is being murdered. In front of each victim’s feet lies a blood-stained cylindrical idol. On the wall—a mural of a man holding a trident-like staff, flanked by three ghostly figures. As Satish Chandra begins his investigation, he uncovers a forbidden chapter from Greek mythology. Magadha, Babylon, Greece, Rome, Egypt, and colonial Calcutta—seemingly unrelated times and events, all tied together by a single thread.