Bangalore loves Banker: Demons of Chitrakut appears on bestseller lists in the IT city
Don’t know why, but Bangalore seems to love me – or my books, at least.
Demons of Chitrakut, barely out in bookstores, has started appearing on Bangalore bestseller lists, according to my publishers.
If past experience is any indication, Delhi usually follows soon after.
Why Bangalore and Delhi first? And why not Mumbai? Beats me.
Maybe because ‘ghar ki murgi, daal barabar’?
Or because I don’t speak to any Mumbai journalists, with no exceptions – while I am somewhat cautiously open to speaking to non-Mumbai journalists, occasionally.
And in Mumbai, of course, you’re either a Page 3 celebrity or you’re nobody.
So Mumbai’s nobody is Bangalore’s bestseller…and Delhi…and Kolkatta…and Chennai…and London…and Singapore…and Kuala Lampur…and…etc…
A very limited number of copies of the AKB Books edition will be available again soon - and the Penguin mass market edition will be out in a few months! 
The long-awaited final volume in the Ramayana Series will be issued in a very Limited Edition by AKB Books, while the mass market paperback will be published early next year by Penguin Books! 