Beneath the Banyan Tree

Beneath the Banyan TreeThe Truth They Tried to BurnWhen a cryptic letter arrives without a sender acclaimed poet and investigative writer Sharaswat is pulled back to Dharmashila — the village he had long left behind buried under memories of betrayal injustice and a friend's suspicious death.The letter simply reads:“They killed her. And blamed her brother.”The ‘her’ is Ramya a young woman full of dreams sketches and defiant love. The ‘brother’ is Samyak now accused of her murder in what the village calls an ‘honor killing.’ But as Sharaswat digs deeper into Ramya’s life what he uncovers is far more chilling — a system designed to prey on women through emotional grooming psychological traps and social silence.Ramya’s sketchbook becomes his guide — filled with haunting drawings coded confessions and fragments of truth no one dared to say aloud. Each page leads to buried secrets faceless predators and a shadowy network that spans far beyond Dharmashila. Names change masks shift but the method remains: isolate seduce extract erase.As Sharaswat and fellow truth-seeker Vidya race against time — dodging threats fire and surveillance — they must confront a question deeper than justice:What happens when love is weaponized and silence becomes the sharpest blade?Set in rural India but echoing global realities Beneath the Banyan Tree is a literary social thriller that blends investigative grit with poetic grief. Through the ashes of a village and the voice of a girl they tried to erase this novel speaks for every Ramya who dared to dream and for every truth they tried to burn.