‘Purple Moor!’ The art teacher’s livid voice resonates. Rushali watches her mother cringe, called into the principal's office again; but thankfully, her father, Dev Pillay chooses to see her painting as eclectic and a reflection of the caring person she is.

When Rushali is just seventeen, her father, the one person who understood her, suddenly passes away. Now Rushali must find her path from the chaos of nonconformity she built for herself. A semblance of calm pervades in her relationship with her mother until Mohan arrives on the scene.

The murder of an innocent woman, Rebecca Greene and the sudden disappearance of Chaya Pandit, the wife of a famous scientist, has the Bengaluru city police immensely puzzled and at a dead end. Already battling to enforce section 114 of the Indian Penal Code, in the backdrop of the protests to the Citizenship Amendment Act and the pandemic, the police force is, overstretched. Therefore, the police commissioner, Ram Vedantham hands over the cases to the Intelligence Bureau to see them to their logical end, and soon. The chief of the Bureau, Karan Rathod, assigns Brij Raghavan and Nihal Shesan to investigate.

The National Anti-Terror Wing and Security Agency (NATW-SA) in Delhi has intel that eleven terrorists have infiltrated the city of Bengaluru, further compounding the anxieties of the police force. The police commissioner once again knocks on the doors of the most credible organization, the Bureau. Karan Rathod puts his best, but the truculent officer Brij Raghavan on the job. Battling with ghosts from the past, and often reprimanded for his defiant ways, he is the lead officer in this operation to find and neutralize the terrorists, but the trail seems murkier! A dotted line appears to connect the murder of Rebecca Greene and the missing person Chaya Pandit to suspected enablers under the protective marquee of the formidable leader of the opposition, Elias Reza! Will Brij be able to weave through the caliginous maze of corruption, greed, and manipulation to apprehend the terrorists?

Hinduism is a way of life without religious boundaries. It is something like democracy, where the society forms the government and its institutions and governance is of the people. So is Hinduism. Every individual is the ruler in a way, we rule our lives; the body, mind and its senses are governed by us with our soul as a divine guide. The soul is the main guide, says Hinduism. The soul in Hinduism is considered virtuous, until sullied by life and its lessons.

Hinduism believes in evolution. This is the one and most important facet of Hindu philosophy, I would like to address, because it brings to light that society is dynamic, therefore religious and social structures are going to feel the change and Hinduism is prepared to adapt and evolve.

As you read the chapters which follow, you will find a few apparent and yet not so apparent theories coming to light. You will realize how open Hinduism is. There are innumerable theories and adaptable rules, but none of which are stringent, compulsory or rigid. Every philosophy and tenet in Hinduism is only an advisory, making Hinduism a very congenial, simple practicable way of life, without intruding into any other religion or personal philosophy.

Evolution happens, and the Hindu can adapt as he has, since the time of the Indus Valley Civilization from being a simple agrarian and trader, up until now, wherein science and technology are a significant influence in our lives. Hinduism began with what it had as its resources and has progressed with newer ones.

Before all else, what we need to understand about Hinduism is, that the religion did not establish itself and the followers did not then seek it afterward. Hinduism is simply a way of life. Hinduism began with the life of the people who lived by the Indus River also called the Sindhu River, which is one of the longest rivers in Asia. It flows from western Tibet through to Jammu and Kashmir and to Pakistan. This civilization, stretched from the present north east Afghanistan to Pakistan covering North India. They evolved a system of life, alongside, by and by the religion began taking root, even as the identifying name Hinduism was itself evolving along with the evolution of the people into being Hindus.

Clearly the people first organized themselves into a settlement and then gradually into becoming a civilization! This was the beginning of Hinduism for the people who lived along the Indus River. This process was defined by the social patterns establishing itself as norms and bringing certain uniqueness that framed the identity of the people of that civilization as Hindus. The religious aspect went on to becoming a unifying and identifying characteristic, but the name Hindu and Hinduism evolved as the civilization evolved, progressed and spread to other regions.

Hinduism is vast in its content and subjects itself to subjective perception; this enables each individual to apply his mind. If the book evokes a debate, it shall immensely please me, for it will be in tune with Hinduism. The intent of this book is not to theorize or fanaticize about Hinduism. On the contrary it is to demystify Hinduism, I emphasize Hinduism is a way of life, and life in a dynamic society, which is constantly evolving. Therefore, keeping evolution in mind the Hindu adapts to the clime of the period and is guided by that divinity, which is the soul inside the human, which again is a part of the Maker. The believer or the religious Hindu can assume that God is the one constant in a changing world. For the non-believer or the non-religious Hindu, the soul, is the engine of the body, it can be a transient constant that guides us through our short life.