: Ramakrishnan mixes real historical figures like Hypatia , Vasco da Gama, and Lorenzo de' Medici with fictional myths.
: Xavier Itty Cora, a former US Marine and Iraq War veteran, becomes obsessed with his ancestry after realizing his family secrets are tied to a 15th-century pepper merchant named Francis Itty Cora. francis itty cora
In 1506, during the Portuguese occupation, he convinced the Archbishop of Angamaly to let him search. For months, he wandered the Malabar coast, tracing old songs and half-forgotten landmarks. And then, on a hillock near present-day Ernakulam, he found it—half-sunken in earth, covered in wild roots, but intact. : Ramakrishnan mixes real historical figures like Hypatia