Parashurama’s Gauntlet
About this ebook
For he knew that soon, the immortal warrior-sage Parashurama would descend from his mountain hermitage. He was the fury of Brahma, the divine executioner who had cleansed the earth of arrogant kings twenty-one times. His axe, a sliver of terrifying light, did not test a king's strength, but judged his very soul. Deva had the skill to fight any man, but how could he face the living embodiment of righteous rage, the being whom even the divine Rama had to pacify with perfect humility? The fear that he would be found wanting was a poison that could kill him faster than any axe.
Seeing this shadow of inadequacy clinging to his son, Deva's guru, the great rishi Vashishtha, knew that no amount of physical training could prepare the prince. The gauntlet was not one of metal, but of spirit. And so begins a great pilgrimage, a journey into the heart of ancient wisdom. To prepare for his confrontation with one legendary sage, Deva must first learn from them all. From the banks of sacred rivers to the peaks of desolate mountains, he must seek out the thirty-six great seers of the age, each of whom holds a single key to the mastery of the self. This is the story of that journey, a quest to forge not a weapon, but a soul worthy of a crown.
About the author
Chinmoy Mukherjee has been working as solution architect for past 15 years.
Over the past 25 years, he has contributed to 50 real-world software projects as an individual contributor. His experience has enabled him to design, develop, and deploy some of the most complex systems, handling millions of transactions per day. As both an AWS and GCP-certified architect, he has not only built 8 systems from scratch but has also successfully re-engineered 7 legacy systems, improving their performance by 15–30%.
His expertise in cybersecurity has led to incredible discoveries—some thrilling, some frustrating. He was listed among the top 100 security researchers in the world for Microsoft (Q4, 2022) and also in Google's Hall of Fame. He ethically hacked Baba Bank, retrieving its entire customer database, and even achieved remote code execution in JPMC & Solana. Over time, he has reported critical vulnerabilities to 50+ Australian companies and received bug bounties from Uber, Apple, Mastercard, Octopus Australia, MagicLeap, and Paysafe. One of his wildest exploits? He found a vulnerability that let him order a Porsche without paying—only to receive a meager $1050 bounty for the discovery.
His penchant for testing boundaries made him the first engineer among 500,000 in HCLTech to complete and download all 1,000 offered certificates. In the industry, he played a critical role in defeating Infosys in 3 major RFPs while being part of underdog teams. Beyond corporate challenges, he took the lead in India's first blockchain token deployment, successfully developing and listing tokens on the Ethereum network.
Innovation has been central to his career. He holds 3 patents, granted in the USA and Australia. Among them, he developed "Patient Analytics," a patented system that underwent successful clinical trials in India. His contributions extend beyond hands-on work—he has written 4 bestselling eBooks (3 technical and 1 parody) and published a technical book via Springer.
