August 15th, 2047. India's Hundredth Birthday . . .
In the mid twenty-first century, Mother India is all the things she is now - ancient and vibrant, violent, diverse, poor yet staggeringly rich. A nation of contrasts and contradictions, choked with peoples and cultures. Nearly two billion humans crowd the subcontinent and her seething cities - the cyberabads - where timeless culture and high technologies meet to spawn new societies - and possible new sentient species.
'River Of Gods' is the great Indian novel of the future, where a diverse array of characters - from gangsters and superstitious street-boys to genetically enhanced Brahmins and computer-generated soap stars - is swept together on an epic journey that will decide the fate of their civilization.
