Synopsis: 1641-1660 was probably the most important period in India’s resistance against a long and oppressive Islamic rule. The Indian subcontinent was under the brutal control of three tyrannical sultanates – the powerful and despotic Mughals, who stand glorified in our textbooks today, in the North, and the Shia rulers, Adilshah and Qutubshah, down South. Read more…

Synopsis: 373 AD. In the thick forests of Malwa, an enigmatic stranger gallops into an ambush attack by bandits to rescue a young courtesan, Darshini. His name is Deva and he is the younger son of Emperor Samudragupta. That chance encounter, first with Deva and later with his two friends, the loyal general Saba Virasena Read more…

Synopsis: Circa 403 C.E. In the thriving city of Nandivardhana, lives Shaunaka, a young man who yearns to go to Pataliputra to see the world and make his fortune. But he is forced to join his father’s jewellery-making business and soon finds himself in the workshop — a job in which his heart clearly did Read more…

Synopsis: It is 326 BC and Alexander, the barbarian king of Macedonia, has descended upon Bharatvarsha with a multi-national horde of Yavanas, Pahlavas, Shakas and Bahlikas. As the invader advances relentlessly and wins bloody battles in quick succession, as local rulers fall over each other to shake hands with the enemy and as the students Read more…