The lights go out in the middle of Dadi's story, and eight-year-old Shaurya and his little sister Sinhayana are sent to fetch a lantern from the room Dadi keeps shut: their grandfather's library.

On the shelf, among the damp and the cold, one book is warm. Its pages are blank. Until Sinhayana holds one to the light.

The book has a voice, a brass disc hidden in its cover, and twenty-six letters to give them, one each dawn. Each letter is a place. Each place has people living with a puzzle. A house where the smoke won't leave. A school with no clock. A village that has stopped going into its fields. And in the margins, in handwriting the children know from their own kitchen cupboard, someone has been there before them.

Someone who signed himself V.

A shadow that won't shrink at noon. A scale that lies. A stone the size of a bullock. And a question: who was the boy with the brass coin?

An illustrated adventure for curious readers aged 8–11, combining a family mystery with Indian traditions, old verses and practical questions about the world. Separate notes and adult-supported activities help families distinguish what can be tested, what people believe and what belongs to the story's magic.

- Nine chapters, nine Indian villages, nine puzzles, from the Himalayan foothills to the Kutch salt flats
- A Try It experiment after every chapter, each marked Safe to try or Grown-up needed
- Real Sanskrit verses in Devanagari, with transliteration and a child-friendly rendering
- The Voyager's Journal, Chinu's Rules of Voyaging, a glossary and a Voyager's Passport
- Full colour throughout

Book 1 of The Vedic Voyager Duo. Free printable Journal pages and badges at vedicvoyagerduo.com.