Best New Books: The Telegraph, Kolkata, July 2005

Armies of Hanuman is the fourth in Banker�s modern retelling of Rama�s story, and takes on his journey to the kingdom of Lanka. For Banker, this story is �not about �hindutva� and the politics of religion, but about �inditva�, Indian pride, and a story too great to be saffronised or sanitised.� This is a hybrid retelling, in which Amar Chitra Katha meets Iravati Karve meets the modern fantasy blockbusters meet the Indian TV serial meets computer games. The prefatory author�s note shows wide reading.

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