Posted in Blog on Jun 27th, 2008
Currently featured on the AKB Newsletter:
*The first five chapters of Vengeance of Ravana the 7th book in the Ramayana Series, which I will be submitting for publication alongwith the 8th and final book, Sons of Sita soon, and which should be published sometime in 2009.
*The first three chapters of Mba, my Mahabharata retelling which will […]
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Posted in Blog on Jun 21st, 2008
Hi.
Most people today are dominated and manipulated by the mass media, and they like it that way. A few people, myself included, are not, and don’t.
Specifically, what I don’t like is aggressive promotion. In the western models of marketing and advertising, even management generally, even the terminology is inherited from war. Campaigns. Strengths. […]
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Posted in Blog on Jun 19th, 2008
Reader Jitendra Rathod from Pune writes:
I happened to visit “Crosswords” (Pune - Shivajinagar) last week. I first found the Ramayana Series in the “Indian Authors” Section and so I headed straight to that section to see if BoR was available. I was surprised to see that not a single book of the series was […]
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Posted in Blog on Jun 16th, 2008
Jabberwock: Ekta Ki Mahabharat
Click on the link above to read a Delhi blogger’s hilarious send-up of Ekta Kapoor’s forthcoming Mahabharata serial.
It’s a must-read.
At times it almost reads like something I’d have written myself. And I even started to write a spoof, titled ‘Serial Motherers’. The problem is that since I’m also a ‘Mahabharata-wallah’, so […]
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Posted in Blog on Jun 8th, 2008
Posted by reader Amit Das on his blog
Background –
Couple of weeks back, I was seen walking around with “King of Ayodhya – Book 6 of Ramayana Series by Ashok Banker “:. My fetish with the book was so strong that I would keep it at my desk, in the car, near the pillow, to steal […]
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Posted in Blog on Jun 6th, 2008
As many of you know already, I’m online round the clock. My work requires me to sit in front of a computer most of the day, and I actually enjoy taking tiny breaks throughout the day to respond to work-related email, Reader mail, or just keep in touch with friends and colleagues online.
I’ve always […]
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Posted in Blog on Jun 2nd, 2008
I’m now serializing the first one-third of my first major hard SF novel, Iron Gods, on The AKB Newsletter.
This is the only way you will get to read these chapters–the equivalent of around 175 published book pages–of this particular book for a long while. There are no plans to publish it outside India anytime, […]
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