Being Right is Paramount

di Mark van Asherduke (Autore)

Aashish Bhat, 2026

What if doing the right thing could cost you everything you have worked to protect? Ravi Keshav has learned one lesson above all others: success means little if it is built on the wrong choice. Raised under his father's guidance and surrounded by a family history stretching across five generations, Ravi has been taught to protect truth, keep careful records, and never trade integrity for applause. But when his name becomes the target of an accusation, those principles are tested. A confrontation at a sports ground is edited into a story that makes Ravi look guilty. A scholarship inquiry threatens his future. Then an anonymous caller reveals knowledge of private family matters, his father's instructions, and a mysterious red-threaded key. The warning is clear: meet privately, follow someone else's rules, or watch the accusations grow. The deeper he looks, the more he discovers that the attacks against him are not isolated incidents. Behind the accusations are networks of influence, unofficial meetings, leaks, manipulated images, and people who understand how quickly a reputation can be destroyed. Evidence that should clear his name raises another question. Then the past begins to speak. In his family's records, Ravi finds five stories of failure. Five generations left behind a pattern of ambition and the pursuit of success. The deeper lesson is unsettling: each generation placed success before righteousness and tried to become right afterward. Ravi begins to understand that his struggle is not simply about clearing his name. He may be confronting a pattern that has shaped his family for generations. His father gives him a difficult task: do the work, protect the record, and refuse to force the judgment. A foundation Ravi helps build becomes the center of attention. Offers of money arrive with conditions attached. Officials delay decisions. Records are challenged. A service hall is damaged. A public event becomes a test of whether Ravi will exchange principle for influence. He must decide what matters more: immediate success or control over the truth. On the streets of Mumbai, ordinary encounters become traps. A broken object becomes an accusation. A purse appears at his feet. A carefully edited video travels through the city before the full recording can be examined. Ravi learns that silence can be manipulated as easily as speech, and that truth sometimes arrives too late to stop a lie. With Leena beside him, his family watching closely, and the family ledger serving as a record of warnings and evidence, Ravi begins to piece together what is happening. He learns to distinguish suspicion from proof, appearance from evidence, and victory from righteousness. But someone is watching. Someone knows about the family history. Someone knows about the red-threaded key. And someone wants Ravi to step outside the official record. As the investigation deepens, Ravi must confront a question beyond the accusations: can a person break a family pattern without becoming consumed by the struggle? Being Right is Paramount is a gripping mystery about family history, pressure, manipulated narratives, moral choices, and one man's search for truth. Set against Mumbai's streets and institutions, it follows a man who discovers that protecting what is right may require more courage than proving it. Every accusation leaves a trace. Every record contains a clue. Even truth has a price to pay. When the next accusation arrives, will the truth be ready? Or will someone else write the ending first?

• Autore: Mark van Asherduke
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Aashish Bhat
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235800731