History knows him as the brilliant strategist Chanakya. Cold, calculating, cruel and armed with a complete absence of accepted morals, he becomes the most powerful political strategist in Bharat. He succeeds in uniting a ragged country against the invasion of the army of Alexander the Great and installing Chandragupta on the throne of the Mauryan empire. But history, which repeats itself, revives Chanakya two and a half millennia later, in the avatar of Gangasagar Mishra, a Brahmin teacher in India who becomes puppeteer to a host of ambitious individuals. Modern India like the ancient Bharat has class hatred, corruption, and divisive politics. Will Chanakya's chant work again? Ashwin Sanghi, the bestselling author of The Rozabal Line, brings yet another political and historical spine chiller.