Archive for May, 2006

Ashok,
I had heard about the Ramayana series from a friend and when I was in India earlier this year, I bought all 5 books on sale there and brought them back to the US. I -just- finished the 5th book and I am sure you’ve heard this a few thousand times already, but they were […]

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BOOK REVIEW: BANKER, ASHOK - “PRINCE OF AYODHYA”
The Ramayana retold, yet again. However, this is one of the best versions I have been exposed to. Banker tells the tale of the Dark Prince in a very Simoqin-Prophesy manner.
The re-telling of the story itself does not begin by showing Rama as a demi-god; instead he’s only […]

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Siege of Mithila is the second installment in Ashok K Banker’s lively retelling of the Ramayana, the great Hindu epic which, at enormous length, forms such a central part of the Indian artistic and philosophical consciousness. As in the original Ramayana, an enormous army of asuras – demons – has been assembled by the demon […]

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This generation’s epic

From IN MY EYE blog–submitted by DK, Hyderabad: The original entry can be found at http://inmyeye6.blogspot.com/
I come from a generation that survived on the antics of Suppandi, Shikari Shambu, Kalia the Crow and of course Tantri the Mantri. These guys are the much loved characters from the Tinkle Comic series that would be delivered every […]

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