Brahma Fire

Rajiv died on a rainy night. He is a Dalit - the "untouchable", the lowest rung of the Indian caste system. He fell in love with a high-caste girl, Anusha, in exchange for a farewell phone call, a gold-plated wedding invitation, and the news the next morning: a young woman fell to her death, suspected of being forced into marriage by her family due to an inter-caste relationship. Rajiv drank liquor and died in a leaky rented house in Mumbai. Then he woke up. 1930, Benares. He became Arjun Sharma, a sixteen-year-old Brahmin noble boy, the son of a high priest, with fair skin, cinnabar between his eyebrows, and a sacred thread symbolizing holiness and purity on his chest. The servant knelt to put on his shoes, and the fallen rice grains were put into his mouth as a blessing. He had everything he hated most in his previous life. And the wound from the previous life was still burning. From the moment the Dalit's soul was trapped in the body of a Brahmin, Arjun understood one thing: God never differentiates between high and low people - it is people who have tampered with God's words. He wants to rot this caste system that has lasted for three thousand years from within. He used his family's granary to secretly exchange for relief grains, cited scriptures during questioning by elders to fight back against murder, secretly talked with Ambedkar, and wrote the abolition of the untouchable system into the Indian Constitution... From an untouchable who dared not touch the water glass to the founder of the country who legislated for the soul of the country. The knives of the purification group are hanging above their heads, the colonial government's ban is pressing harder, and the suspicion of relatives is always with them. But Arjun knows that once the fire is lit, it can only start a prairie fire. And the starting point of it all is the sacred thread that is cut into the skin, and an unquenched oath: "Anusha, this time, I will not let your death be in vain."