Author

Kamran Ahmad

Clinical Psychologist and scholar with a Ph.D. in South Asian Spirituality. Author of Goddess of the Indus and other works on gender, psychology, and spirituality.

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Goddess of The Indus

Goddess of The Indus - A Historical Novel

This intriguing story, set in the Indus Valley 3,200 years ago, brings to life one of the most pivotal shifts in South Asian history; the transformation of spirituality and religion, of gender and power. At its heart lies the struggle of the indigenous peoples, resisting the rising tide of social and ideological oppression imposed by outsiders.

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The themes

What this book is about.

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The Indus valley long before the history we were taught

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Belief hardening into hierarchy

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Devotion, and who ends up benefiting from it

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Motherhood, duty, and the rules built around both

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What a gentler order might have looked like

Behind The Book

About the Author

Dr. Kamran Ahmad holds a Ph.D. in South Asian Spirituality from California. Beyond academia, he spent decades immersed in diverse spiritual groups, learning their practices and worldviews. This experience enables him to distinguish indigenous lived spirituality from formal spiritual and religious traditions. His writing is also informed by over thirty years of work as a Clinical Psychologist with the International Civil Service, across different cultures on five continents. He is the author of several books on gender, psychology, and spirituality.

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Goddess of The Indus, p. i

This story was born from a question that has lingered in me for years… “What happens when power begins to speak in the language of the sacred?” In the land of the Indus, we still wrestle with questions whose roots reach deep into time, back to when the Aryans first entered this region, some 3,500 years ago.

Goddess of The Indus, p. ii

It is in that twilight between remembrance and forgetting, between love and control, that this story unfolds. Somewhere in the mountains, one tribe refused to surrender its memory, and it is with them that Goddess of the Indus begins.
Perhaps the story of the Goddess of the Indus is not only about what was lost, but about what still survives within us, the quiet memory of a more sacred way of being.

Goddess of The Indus, p. 1

Syam felt the entire universe dissolving into the flowing, intricate melody of his flute… as though reality itself were merging with each note until nothing existed but that singular, piercing cry. In that moment, the world ceased to exist. He ceased to exist. Only the soulful cry of his flute remained. And the cry of the flute was real.