This book was not supposed to be a book. It was supposed to be a travel journal.

When I first arrived in India, I came looking for the clichés—the yoga ashrams, the spicy curries, and the chaos of the bazaars. I came looking for "Spiritual India." I was comfortable with that narrative. It was safe. It was what the guidebooks promised.

But India has a way of destroying your assumptions.

It started with a whisper in a stone hallway in Andhra Pradesh, where a twenty-ton granite pillar refuses to touch the ground. It escalated in the mountains of Maharashtra, where I stood before a temple carved out of a mountain—not built up, but dug down—removing 200,000 tons of rock with a precision that defies modern engineering.+3

I realized then that the history books I was raised on were incomplete. They told me civilization was linear—that we are the peak of technology, and the ancients were primitive stone-stackers.

The stones tell a different story.

What you are holding in your hands is not a travel guide. It is a dossier of anomalies. It is a collection of ten specific locations where the laws of physics, geology, and history seem to glitch. From the "Bath of Bones" at 16,000 feet to the ghost coordinates of Gyanganj that satellites cannot see, these are the places where the official narrative hits a dead end.+2

You have chosen to pick up this book, which means you are willing to look past the sanitized version of history. You are now part of the 1% who ask the dangerous question: What if we forgot more than we know?

Consider this your mission briefing. You have just accessed Level 1. My personal recommendation? Do not read this as fiction. Read it as a cold case file. Check the footnotes. Verify the coordinates. The patterns are real.

But a fair warning before you turn the page: Once you see the patterns, you cannot unsee them.

Stay hidden.

— Dark Sutra

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