Book review : The Taj Conspiracy by Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

The book revolves around the Taj Mahal as the name suggest. As being Indians we all must have heard two stories about the Taj. First one is well known by the rest of the world too - the story of Mumtaaz & Shajahan. The second is that story in which it is said that the  Taj is a Ancient Hindu Mandir (temple) and there exist a Shivling in the Taj.

Mehrunisa Khosa, a Mughal Scholar came to India. Born to a Persian mother and an Indian father, brought up in Middle East and Europe she came to India not only to do a research on Taj but also in search of her roots and identity.

But in the course when she visited Taj she found the Taj supervisor dead. Then she found the verse of Kuran on the tomb tampered in a way to create a controversy.  A controversy to create tension at Agra between Hindus and Muslims.

Then a complete series of events took place to show that the Taj is indeed a Shiv Temple. Mehrunisa followed them and tried to find out if the Taj really was a ancient Shiv Temple or not.

The author, Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, worked and researched well to make the book interesting. The book is a true thriller with lots of secrets which open up in the end. I can't make the secrets public so go grab your copy of this book.

But there are also few things which I didn't like/understand. The chapters which talk about a terrorist group making plans against India was not needed as I didn't find any connection of them with Taj. Although the book is a well written thriller but it also got boring in-between. Some parts of the story also seem to be filmy as they can't happen in real life.

I will give this book 6/10.