This is an extraordinary attempt to record and recover the long neglected 'ancestral voices' of Indian civilization. In the first chapter, Shah underlines the relationship between literature (art and truth. Affirming the Vedic emanate from 'Vac', which he interprets not merely as the tool of communication, but as the primordial mystery, combining in herself three words of Time: past, present and future and revealing itself only to those who are worthy ...