Archive for January, 2008

Recent media reports about my Ramayana series being adapted to film led to several mediapersons calling and emailing me, wanting more info. I’ve already put a sampling of their questions alongwith my answers on the FAQ’s page. But here are the fully detailed answers issued through my publishers Penguin India:
After the success of your Ramayana […]

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This post has been deleted at the request of a Wikipedia contributor. His apology is accepted, although the abusive incident and the fact that it occurred at all, reflects poorly on Wikipedia’s management.
To read more about how Wikipedia fails to contain or curb repeated racial abuse, bigotry, anti-Asian, anti-ethnic prejudice and bias, among several […]

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Ramayana series - The graphic novel

I’m pleased to announce yet another comic book series written by me. (Apart from my ‘Kali’ comic for Vertigo Comics.)
This is the official graphic novel adaptation of my Ramayana series. Each book in the six-book series is being adapted into one full-length graphic novel in full colour. So there will be six graphic novels […]

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the Ramayana series by Ashok Banker - excellent in narration and handling, again I have devoured two and I feel I shall finish this series first before moving on. Banker is a brilliant writer and he handles the story extremely well. I believe that anyone interested in reading should pick up this series - […]

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Best of the rest

I love ‘best’ lists, even the woefully short-sighted ‘year’s best’ ones that throng cyberspace at this time of year. Despite their tendency to spotlight the over-hyped few instead of illuminating the lesser-known many, they still provide great recos to build my own buy list and help me whittle down my typically 1000+ must-read books a […]

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