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9/29/12 Tehelka ‑ India's Independent Weekly News Magazine 1/3 www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=hub011108firstlookbooks.asp 667 Like 39k Follow Follow @tehelkadotcom @tehelkadotcom 40.2K followers CAMPAIGN ARTICLE 17: Our first call to the National Commission of Scheduled Castes From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 43, Dated Nov 01, 2008 CULTURE & SOCIETY first look Books ‘It is more interesting to learn history through a thriller than to read a nonfiction theory about Jesus living in India. In The Rozabal Line, religion, history, factual narrative are interspersed with fictional narrative to give context and colour to the plot’ ASHWIN SANGHI ON a lazy day in London, a cardboard box is found on a shelf of London’s SOAS library, where a copy of the Mahabharata should have been. When the mystified librarian opens it, she screams and falls unconscious. So begins Ashwin Sanghi’s The Rozabal Line, a thriller that inquires into the controversial claim that Jesus Christ travelled to India and was buried in Kashmir’s Rozabal Tomb. For Sanghi, “it is irrelevant whether Rozabal is the actual tomb of Jesus or not. Rozabal represents an ‘alternative story’; is symbolic of many facets of the Christian faith that may have been lost”. The Rozabal Line will be released by Westland Ltd & Tranquebar Press in November 2008. From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 43, Dated Nov 01, 2008 29 SEPTEMBER 2012 SATURDAY TEHELKAHINDI.COM TEHELKAFOUNDATION.ORG CRITICALFUTURES.ORG Go

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Page 1: Go Tehelka... · 2015. 10. 6. · From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 43, Dated Nov 01, 2008 29 SEPTEMBER 2012 SATURDAY TEHELKAHINDI.COM TEHELKAFOUNDATION.ORG CRITICALFUTURES.ORG

9/29/12 Tehelka ‑ India's Independent Weekly News Magazine

1/3www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=hub011108firstlookbooks.asp

667 Like 39k

Follow Follow @tehelkadotcom@tehelkadotcom 40.2K followers

CAMPA IG N ARTICLE 17: Our first call to theNational Commission of ScheduledCastes

From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 43, Dated Nov 01, 2008

CULTURE & SOCIETY first look

Books‘It is more interesting to learn history through a thriller than to read a nonfiction theory about Jesus living in India. In TheRozabal Line, religion, history, factual narrative are interspersed with fictional narrative to give context and colour to the plot’

ASHWIN SANGHI

ON a lazy day in London, a cardboard box is found on a shelf of London’s SOAS library,where a copy of the Mahabharata should have been. When the mystified librarian opensit, she screams and falls unconscious. So begins Ashwin Sanghi’s The Rozabal Line,a thriller that inquires into the controversial claim that Jesus Christ travelled to India andwas buried in Kashmir’s Rozabal Tomb. For Sanghi, “it is irrelevant whether Rozabal isthe actual tomb of Jesus or not. Rozabal represents an ‘alternative story’; is symbolic ofmany facets of the Christian faith that may have been lost”. The Rozabal Line will bereleased by Westland Ltd & Tranquebar Press in November 2008.

From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 43, Dated Nov 01, 2008

29 SEPTEMBER 2012 SATURDAY TEHELKAHINDI.COM TEHELKAFOUNDATION.ORG CRITICALFUTURES.ORG