The year is 340 BC. A hunted haunted Brahmin youth vows revenge for the gruesome murder of his beloved father.
Cold calculating cruel and armed with a complete absence of accepted morals he becomes the most powerful political strategist in Bharat and succeeds in uniting a ragged country against the invasion of the army of that demigod Alexander the Great.
Pitting the weak edges of both forces against each other he pulls off a wicked and astonishing victory and succeeds in installing Chandragupta on the throne of the mighty Mauryan empire.
History knows him as the brilliant strategist Chanakya. Satisfied and a little bored by his success as a kingmaker through the simple summoning of his gifted mind he recedes into the shadows to write his Arthashastra the science of wealth .
But history which exults in repeating itself revives Chanakya two and a half millennia later in the avatar of Gangasagar Mishra a Brahmin teacher in small town India who becomes puppeteer to a host of ambitious individuals including a certain slum child who grows up into a beautiful and powerful woman.
Modern India happens to be just as riven as ancient Bharat by class hatred corruption and divisive politics and this landscape is Gangasagar s feasting ground. Can this wily pandit who preys on greed venality and sexual deviance bring about another miracle of a united India?
