“Adam and Ulysses are people

“Adam and Ulysses are people that many of us grew up

with as are the fairies and elves from British folklore thanks to

Western writers and film-makers dabbling in Greek and Roman

mythology, Biblical stories and myths and folklore to capture the

imagination of modern readers and audiences. And in India too,

vernacular writers have turned to our very own epics, history and

mythology to recreate them as popular writing. Now, it’s the turn of

Indian writers writing in English, who have already made their

presence felt in world literature, to take our epics global to

readers of fiction. Ashok K. Banker’s Ramayana is a journey in that

direction.” Economic Times