Yes, Branga with an ‘r’ and not ‘Banga’ or ‘Bengal’. The quest to find the Nagas and make them pay takes him to various parts of Swadweep which is actually a confederation of kingdoms, the richest and the most powerful of which is Branga. He is sure that the Nagas are to blame for his death. Shiva is on a quest to avenge the murder of Brahaspati, the Chief Scientist of Meluha, whom he had come to accept as his blood brother. Yes, ‘bull race’ and not ‘camel race’, in case you wondered. We are shown a bunch of Nagas, the same people who carried out terrorist attacks in Meluha, who have now come to Swadweep following Shiva and Sati, take on a group of Magadhan soldiers who are trying to snatch a tribal child from its mother so that the child can be used as a bull race jockey. In fact, they are downright friendly, helpful and even risk their necks to save people from trouble. Since the sequel is called The Secret Of The Nagas, I did expect an about-turn on the Nagas and I was not disappointed.

However, Tripathi had also shown the Nagas in a good light in one instance where a Naga terrorist contingent rescues a woman from the jaws of a crocodile. In the The Immortals of Meluha, the Nagas had been cast as an evil race, one which helped the bad Chandravanshis carry out terrorist attacks in Meluha.

The sequel to The Immortals of Meluha was released a few weeks ago.

The secret of nagas by amish