Location: India
Member Since: July 20, 2011

Vasant Davé


Biography

Vasant Davé is an electrical engineer from the University of Bombay. He holds a post-graduate certificate in marketing and has received training at National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Tata Management Training Center and XLRI School of Business. He served engineering industry for 24 years. For another 8 years, he travelled widely in India conducting Industrial Market Research for corporate clients in the U.K., Germany, Israel, India, Singapore, Hong Kong and China.

During one of his frequent tours he happened to visit Lothal and was awed to learn that it was a sea-port that conducted maritime business with Mesopotamia. Subsequently he visited other Indus Valley archaeological sites and had had discussions with authorities on the subject. He completed writing his first novel 'Trade winds to Meluhha' in 2011.

Earlier, Vasant's articles were published in Readers' Digest, Economic Times, Business India, Telematics India and Studio Systems. His technical background helped him to understand and apply historical, geographical, environmental and cultural nuances bearing upon the life during the Bronze Age, the period in which 'Trade winds to Meluhha' is set.

Where to find Vasant Davé online

Twitter: Meluhha
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Books

Trade winds to Meluhha    by Vasant Davé
Price: $2.99 USD. 102300 words. Published on January 14, 2012. Fiction.
Recounts young Samasin's adventure in Bronze Age Mesopotamia & Indus Valley Civilization. Implicated in murder, he flees to Meluhha to search Siwa Saqra – name uttered by the dying man. He falls in love with Melluhhan Velli but she adores another man. He also meets a mysterious Mesopotamian Anu.(Cover shows both ladies) Meeting Siwa, he finds that the murder held an enigma & then hell breaks loose
How I wrote a Pre-Historic Novel    by Vasant Davé
Price: Free! 3850 words. Published on July 20, 2011. Nonfiction.
In this small e-book Vasant Davé shares his experience of writing a Pre-Historic Novel and how he endeavoured to raise the conviction factor of his narrative far above earlier novels dealing with Indus Valley Civilization. 'Trade winds to Meluhha' was published at Smashwords in January, 2012.

Vasant Davé’s tag cloud

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