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Kalki

Book Review by: ShivMallik    

Original Author: Gore Vidal
It is a story how the prophisized God of destruction "Kalki" would bring about "end of the world" as we know it.  In the
futuristic tale, prophecy states that Kalki would ride a flying white horse armed with His sword to save the pious and destroy the unrighteous. As the prophecy was told at a time when Humanity knew nothing about planes & bombs, the plot deals with how Kalki would pull this off in today's world of technology, politics & warfare with the goal being to destroy the masses while starting life anew.  Story begins with an American claiming himself to be the Kalki avataar attracting world wide attention exploiting people's greed for easy money, obsession for Television entertainment and addiction for drugs. Kalki openly states the date for "the end of the world" and generously distributes money hidden in paper lotuses dropped from flying planes throughout the world. He recruits a bold divorced woman pilot to fly his planes and secretly engages drug dealers to generate cash for his agenda. In a public display on national TV, he gets blown up to pieces only to resurface as another like-self much to the intrigue of the people as the "Death Day" approaches.  In the final move, He sends his lady pilot to fly the plane around the globe on a peace mission dropping millions of paper lotuses stuffed with money and a message of "end of the world".  Next morning and not too long afterwrds, the streets, the towns, the countries become silent with people "dead" from paper lotuses leaving the silent world to Kalki & his consorts to start anew, but then again "it back fires" because Kalki missed one tiny detail of having to wait for dawn of creation.  The world ends in silence with cities turning to jungles.   
Published: June 12, 2008
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