Amish Tripathi is a trending Indian English writer who narrates mythological stories with logical explanations to make the modern readers believe them. His novels “The Immortals of Meluha”, “The secret of Nagas” and “The Oath of Vayuputras” are the three novels that make the Shiva Trilogy series. The paper focuses on examining how these texts divergent attitudes towards the characters and incidents in the Indian Mythology, how these ancient texts reinterpret the mythical past, and how the respective authors utilize myth creatively for coming to terms with the predicament of the present. In Indian English literature, the use of Hindu mythology is like literary tradition. Indian myths have an extended history resolving all kind of social, political, spiritual apprehensions. Indian myths help in deeper understanding of mankind as well as instruct and preach about the perfect way of human life. Indian novelists make the fullest use of myth symbolically and metaphorically. The present study explores the mythical world in Indian fictions. Myth has always given creative impetus to the authors over the ages. Myth shapes the meaning of a literary work with all depth and breadth of its accumulated meaning. Myth and legends provides a wide range of scope for inspiration. The faith on the myth enables a writer to choose elements from it and use it for the purpose.
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