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Sutra Symbiotix

by Rahul Sen

Buddhismpharmaceutical worldbird flumicrobiologycrimeBuddhist monksFictionTravel

A Buddhist monk in a renowned monastery in Leh, is handed a sacred manuscript, and asked to begin a journey. The journey is not for spiritual enlightenment, but to achieve a unique physical perfection. The monk receives the blessings of His Holiness, travels through the rugged mountainous terrain of the Himalayas, and finally arrives on the shore of an exquisite lake, in the remote wilderness of Indo-Chinese border. An embittered microbiologist resigns from a research facility in Lake District, England, and decides to use his warped brilliance for amassing material wealth. His liaison with an Indian Pharmaceutical giant almost exposes him, and he descends on a spectacular lagoon in India with his final ambition to mutate H5N1, the avian flu virus. A Frankenstein is let loose, leading to an epidemic, to which the modern science has no answer. Will the Buddhist monk, coming down from the roof the world, be able to save the world? A well-known English Immunologist becomes stunned after discovering an astonishing finding in the monk's body. It is a tale of confluence of biological science with an ancient philosophy, and a clash between the positive and negative human achievements at th

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