KARAN QUMA and the Meluha Tree

Mysterious things begin to happen when Karan, an eleven-year-old orphan boy, seeks refuge in the Greywals' middle-class home in Delhi, India. While the Greywals' only son, Kogon, and Mr. Greywal oppose giving refuge to the urchin, Mrs. Greywal's heart goes out to him, and her husband finally decides that Karan will be their domestic helper and Kogon's personal servant.Because of Karan's unusual intellectual abilities, the Greywals are forced to send him and Kogon to a strange school, Rod and Bag Public School, run by the evil genius Huwawa. Little do the boys know that there are powerful forces-both good and evil-controlled by extraterrestrials egging them on to compete intellectually and physically for what could possibly be the most challenging task of their lives-the Great Race to discover the Meluha Tree. As foretold in the Seventh Harappan Tablet by the great Prophet Tarathivan five thousands years ago, the fruit of the Meluha Tree will help determine the True One, the defender of mankind. Now archenemies, Kogon and Karan battle to complete the death-defying journey to the tree. But only one will live to solve the final riddle and save humankind.