Ram Sivasankaran

History is a superb subject as it teaches various incidents occurred at several places at different times.When I studied in the school I cherished history as my favorite subject because it gave challenges to memorize huge data and to recollect them at the time of examination.

The Peshwa is a great historical and period crime thriller. As a voracious reader I like the book as the political tale is woven with a meticulous craftsmanship, in which words and sentences are arranged in a decorative way with the usual aspects like suspense , romance , humour , thrills, twists, joy ,despair and shock . The prose has got a poetical approach to make it a delight to go through the book .It is a story of ambition, achievements,obsessions and defeats. Loyalty and treachery are exhibited in their true colour . Ways of war is depicted nicely.Right from the dress pattern and rituals followed by the people everything is written perfectly leaving no room for finding a flaw. The characters are portrayed in a grand manner and the drama is engaging enough to read it at one go.There are good and bad people but they are all intelligent and wise . I like the Besajirao the protagonist as he represents courage , wisdom and intelligence. The brilliant plots are worked out after due research which fact accounts for the hard work of the author.With a fire in his belly the writer has made all the efforts to make the novel a great success.

The blurb given by the Publisher Westland has correctly put in that the author Ram Sivasankaran who was a passionate student of history in his debut novel has woven a beautiful story on the greatest but a less known -figure from Indian history -Bajirao Bhat Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy .

Full review can be read here https://talesandreviews.blogspot.in/2016/09/review-of-peshwa.html… (más)