The Ultimate Truth - A Never Ending Story (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789354548734)

Robin and Ali at the age of twelve years, join a Military School at Dehradun to receive nine years of rigorous Military training. Sharing common interests while undertaking numerous adventure activities together, a strong bond between the two is established. In their final year of school, their sisters join Whelums Girls School in Dehradun. After a chance encounter while on a day's trip to Mussoorie, they fall in love with each other's sisters, but both the couples keep their love affairs hidden from one another. Over a period, loves between the pairs grow, culminating in marriages against the strong opposition from both the families, who are not able to reconcile on their children marrying in different religions. While taking part in an all-India car rally, Ali and Robin are badly injured resulting in their being boarded out of the army on medical grounds. Due to the failure of monsoons for six consecutive years, India faces severe drought conditions. Taking advantage of the miseries of the public, vested elements try to exploit the Hindu-Muslim divide causing severe communal riots. Ali is indoctrinated to join fundamentalist forces, whereas Robin is roped in to fight the Dharam Yudh. While the pitched armed battles between the two opposing groups intensify, Ali and Robin leading their respective warring factions come face to face, resulting in Ali being seriously wounded. Robin recognizing his old friend tries to intervene between the two forces, only to be killed with Ali succumbing to injuries in his arms. As an irony of fate, Ali is reborn into the Hindu family of Robin, while Robin reincarnates in the Muslim family of Ali, thus are now at the other end of the spectrum for which they had laid down their lives in their previous births...