The Aegis of Kali: 1939-1945: A Time of Love & War

By Leila Sen

Based on true events and discovered memoirs, The Aegis of Kali is about destiny and love set against the flaming backdrop of World War II ....... It is 1940. Invoking the protection of the warrior goddess Kali, destroyer of evil, mother goddess of redemption, time and change, a young Indian doctor prepares to join the IMS in the British Indian Army. The war takes him from his home town of Calcutta (Kolkata) in India to the Middle East where global history is in the making, and the dispute over religious beliefs and the rights to homeland will change and divide the peoples of this world for decades to come. With his Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Own 2/4 Gurkha Rifles, he advances through the ancient cities of Iraq, Syria and Persia (Iran) to Cairo and the erupting deserts of North Africa. Serendipity plays its hand in Cairo, a tumultuous city of political intrigue and espionage seething with Allied forces from all around the world. There he meets a young woman who has fled the Armenian genocide in Turkey to find safe haven in Egypt. His capture on a fateful day in June 1942, by Erwin Rommel's AfrikaKorps in the chaotic Battle of the Cauldron, cannot deter their destiny. Despite separation and the global turmoil surrounding them, the story of their love transcends the tragedies of war, the boundaries of far flung countries, and the barriers of time and fate. About the Cover: Mythology tells us, in an attempt to mitigate Kali's escalating rage as she battled against the forces of evil, her husband, Lord Shiva, placed himself in her direct path. When Kali's foot inadvertently touched her husband - an irreverence for any Hindu wife - it not only halted her fury, it prompted her to 'bite her tongue' in an involuntary reaction of shame signified in every image of Kali by her protruding tongue. Hence the placement of that ignominious emblem, the Nazi swastika, on Kali's tongue to contrast with the symbol on the goddess's forehead - the area of a third eye - which represents her four arms wielding her powers as well as her blessings. Her tears flow from a mother's sorrow for a world at war, and the awful destruction of her children

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521322406
• ISBN13: 9781521322406
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 567 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"