An advance copy of this book reached me several months before its release last year. I have read it with interest and admiration, and I had meant to review it promptly, yet it has taken me more than a year to get down to it.
Predictions and prophesies about catastrophes and the end of the world pronounced by priests, astrologers, sadhus, seers, and saints started coming on a regular basis from the beginning of the Common Era and are still going on. It is estimated that since 66 CE till today, at least 175 prophesies for the end of the world or major cataclysm have been made but leaving out the futuristic predictions, all past predictions have proved wrong