Love and Samsara is a novel set in 16th-century India, blending
history, adventure, love, and spirituality on the background of the
arrival of the Portuguese, which caused a clash of civilizations.
Love and Samsara is an epic diorama of the world in the early 16th
century, stretching from Europe to Asia, taking in Brazil, Africa,
the Middle East, India, and then the lands below the wind, the
monsoon countries of South East Asia. The hero, a renowned Arab
ship pilot, hunted down for eloping with a Iain girl, escapes from
their assassins by guiding Vasco da Gama and the Portuguese ships
to Calicut, the major emporium of the spice trade. Only later does
he realize the tremendous significance of his innocent betrayal,
for it leads to the Portuguese imperial domination of the oceansea.
This marks a turning point in history, a time when the modern world
becomes inexorably linked with power-gunpowder for cannon, printing
for the spread of knowledge, and astronomy for a new understanding
of the heavens. A time also of significant encounter among the
world's major religions, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism,
Buddhism and Jainism, with their complex languages, philosophies
and theologies. Here is a samsara crowded with adventure, history,
tragic love, philosophical speculation, religious confrontation,
suspense and mystery, that reaches its climax in 1510 with the
Portuguese conquest of Goa.
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