“Inspired! Banker�s ingenuity lies in

“Inspired! Banker�s ingenuity lies in threading his epic fantasy

story through his already-known-to-many characters. For readers

clued in to the Ramayana, the fun is to get the tilted connections,

savour the added layers given to small passing details. This is

palimpsestic fiction at its most enthralling. Banker squeezes in

various strands of culture – East-West,

pop-classical,cinematic-literary – on the Ramayana-fantasy fiction

template. If we know how to have fun, we�ll be waiting eagerly at

the other end to see what the two heroes – and the anti-hero � have

in store for us in the third book, Demons of Chitrakut.”

Hindustan Times, India’s largest selling English newspaper,

on Siege of Mithila

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