To steal the artisan's secret - Paperback

by Ubash Balan (Author)

A normal busy life of three friends, Ubash, Sritha and Shreesha turns out to be a celebration of events from the ancient during a work project. All three of them lead their passionate professional lifestyles in Bangalore. They were in to photography, dance, yoga, branding, marketing and movies. One day, Shreesha gets a wedding project in Belur, due to short of staff, he forces his best friends Ubash and Sritha to join him. It has been a long time they did a gig together, excited and to jog the memory they all agree. In Belur, they were welcomed by 1100 years old history from the Chennakesava Temple. After the visit from the temple with the whole wedding couple and family, that night onwards Ubash could not sleep well, he started getting reflections and vibrations from the past. Initially scared and disturbed, but when the grandmother of the family told him to embrace the past and gain that knowledge, he decided to walk with his rebirth reflections. Ubash found out that they all were reincarnation from the 14th century, Chennakesava era. In this reflection, the Raja Raja Chola after knowing that the Hoysalas are very much ahead in the field of arts, architecture and culture arena, he wanted to excel ahead of them, before being the future king, he wanted to achieve this, and took help from his best friend and scholar Dhanushkotiya to disguise as a saint and travel to Hoyasla and steal the artisan's design, arts and finally the architect of Hoysala. Ubash was Dhanushkotiya, Sritha was Cheenakaami, a royal family of Hoysala, a classical dance student and teacher and assistant to the Queen, the main cultural head of the kingdom. Shreesha was Akelendra, the youngest and shrewdest senapthi of Hoysala, nothing could go pass by him. This story is about the greatest friendship of the 14th century that's created between Dhanushkotiya, Cheenakaami and Akelendra. They all revealed the true meaning of kindness, humanity and tolerance. At the end, they realized stealing anything is not the answer instead sharing is what we need to do now and always.