Chronos | Fiction and Philosophy
Time is not a river. It is a knot.
Chronos explores this knot through fiction and philosophy. In the Chronotantra trilogy, Līlā, a Santhal girl from the forests of Eastern India, becomes the living face of Mahākāl — the eternal Time that binds past, present and future. Across three worlds and three centuries, she must unravel the knot in which she finds herself and her world tied up in.
While the novels are set in human settlements on Earth, Mars and Titan, and feature sophisticated artificial intelligence, their central preoccupation lies neither in the intricacies of world-building nor in the familiar conflict between humanity and machines. Instead, they explore Time, intelligence and the forces that shape the trajectory of human civilisation.
In ChronoSutra, narrative gives way to inquiry. The questions that lie beneath the fictional universe -- reality, intelligence, information, Time, consciousness and creation -- are explored through the intersecting perspectives of physics, computer science and Indic philosophy.
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At the heart of the Chronotantra trilogy lies a deeper question: what truly shapes and guides the progress of civilisation? The answer lies neither in a charismatic leader nor in the familiar triumph of humans over machines. Instead, the evolving mystery of Kalki points towards another possibility -- a controlling principle that is not really intelligent and yet has the power and potential to shape a future created by intelligence.
ChronoSutra takes the questions behind that fictional possibility beyond the boundaries of fiction.
