The Ashoka Paradox (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798244500653)

The most dangerous weapon is not nuclear power.

It is the belief that it can be controlled.

In 1974, as India prepares for its first nuclear test, a classified intelligence unit discovers something unsettling: every simulation predicting stability collapses beyond a certain point in time.

The anomaly leads to an unexpected source-ancient Ashokan edicts and Vedic metaphors that appear to describe catastrophic energy long before the nuclear age. What was once dismissed as philosophy begins to resemble a warning.

A RAW operative, a nuclear physicist, and a Sanskrit scholar are forced into a race against secrecy, politics, and foreign intelligence agencies-all while the countdown continues. The threat is not an explosion, but a chain of perfectly logical decisions that could destabilize the world.

To prevent disaster, they must do the unthinkable: delay progress, defy power, and reinterpret strength itself.

The Ashoka Paradox is a gripping Indian historical science-fiction thriller that blends real geopolitical events, grounded science, and ancient insight into a tense story about restraint, responsibility, and the true cost of power.