Shoorsaini

24 September 2013 09:57:45 PM

Hello Friends,

There is a new bestseller novel involving Sainis of Punjab and tracing their origin from Lord Krishna. The new novel is called “Krishna Key” (Author: Ashwini Sanghi) . The hero of the novel is also a Saini professor from Punjab. You can get it from Amazon.com if it is not available in your local store:

There is an excerpt and some more information about it.

“How so?’ asked Priya. ‘Krishna’s grandfather was Shurasena, and some of his tribe came to be known as the Shainyas. Over several generations, the Shainyas eventually settled in the Punjab and came to be known as Sainis.”

-The Krishna Key, Chapters 46-47 ,The Krishna Key , Sanghi, Ashwin, Westland Publishers 2012

The Krishna Key centres around Ravi Mohan Saini, the protagonist and a historian who has been accused of the murder of his childhood friend Anil Varshney. In an attempt to clear his name, Saini looks into the past of Indian Mythology’s grey areas and uncover the truth about a serial killer who believes himself to be Kalki, the final avatar of Lord Vishnu. Saini travels from the ancient ruins of the Lost City of Dwaraka to Vrindavan temples in an attempt to discover one of Krishna’s treasures and stop the killer from murdering his friends who are also under the threat.

The plot involves different pieces of the seal which must be brought together to solve the puzzle. Each part of the seal is in the possession of four different people who are descendants of Yadava tribes. The tribes are Saini, Satvat, Varshney and Chhedi. The author narrates a detailed version of the post-Mahabharatha history through the protagonist, a distinguished professor of history, who himself happens to be a lineal descendant of Krishna being from Saini tribe of Punjab. The book also contains the author’s version of the Krishna Avatar at the start of each chapter from the birth to the death of Vishnu’s 8th Avatar.