The Gods of Wars

It is a sordid saga of Dr.Rameez and his wife Thabassu Al Mahpari, the space scientists at NASA, who ventures to establish a space research centre first in Baghdad, Iraq and then relocates it to Damascus, Syria before the Arab Spring. At both the places, the fate was against them.

“America is a great country”. That perception of Rameez changed when he was nabbed by the FBI for an incidental photograph with Osama Bin Laden before the 9/11 attack. When the liberal citizens flooded the cities of America in his support, he was absolved of the tenuous allegation. Dejected, he and Thabassu flew to Mazar-e-Sharief, Afghanistan to witness the atrocities of the Taliban after their ouster through a war by USA. Then the tycoons of Saudi Arabia offer him to establish a space centre in an Islamic country. With the help of seven astronauts and in collaboration with America and Russia, he establishes it under the name of Islamic Space Laboratory for Astronauts and Moon (ISLAM) in Baghdad with the colossal aim of launching the spaceship to the Moon, mining the gold there and bringing it back to the Earth for the welfare of the whole humanity. In 2003, his space laboratory was robbed by the miscreants after the toppling of Saddam Husain in the wake of the raging war by the USA. With renewed perseverance, he relocates it to Damascus, Syria. By the time, the spaceship was assembled along with the other basic paraphernalia of Launch Escape System and Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, the country was swept by the civil unrest due to Arab Spring and a complex war between many countries and the Muslim mercenaries had reduced it to rubbles. Finally, a day before the spaceship was programmed to launch on August 2013 from Tartus, a chemical attack on Ghouta, the residence of Rameez and Thabassu maimed and killed hundreds of people.

Publisher : Sharfun Publications, Bangalore.
First edition : May 2014.
Pages : 239.
Price : Rs. 500/- Foreign 250$ (including postage).