Ashok Banker is the author of the Ramayana Series, Vertigo, and several other books. This is his official website and author blog. To know more about him, please click on the tab 'Ashok' above the picture at the top of this page.
Husband to Bithika, father to Ayush and Yashka, care-giver to Willow. Reads a lot. Writes a little.
Hi, I'm Ashok, husband to Bithika, father to Yashka & Ayush. Care-giver to Willow. I read a lot, I write a little. Welcome to my Blog+Website. Have some chai,get2 know me.
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WORKS IN PROGRESS (Possible Publication dates)
RAMAYANA SERIES (2009)
Vengeance of Ravana (2009)
Sons of Sita (2009)
Ramayana graphic novel Vol I: Prince of Ayodhya (Dec 09)
Ramayana Podiobooks Vol I: Prince of Ayodhya KALI GRAPHIC NOVELS Vol I: Becoming Kali (2010)
Vol II: Stray Gods (2010)
KRISHNA CORIOLIS (2010+)
Dance of Govinda Slayer of Kamsa Flute of Vrindavan Throne of Dwarka Field of Kurukshetra Chariot of Arjuna Coils of Ananta Lord of Vaikunta THE MBA (2011+)
The Seeds of War The Children of Midnight As The Blind King Watched Brothers In Exile While War Lords Speak of Peace Upon This Crimson Field When The Blue God Awakens Beyond Black, White, and Grey The Age of Kali CONTEMPORARY NOVELS Byculla Boy (revised edition) (2009)
Beautiful Ugly The Pasha of Pedder Road Indian English THE VORTAL CODEX Shockwave (2009)
Python Flash Dreamweaver GANESA PALINDROME Palimpsest (Sept 09)
Palimscope Palindrome Palingenesis Palinode THE INDUS SERIES Gandhi's War Indus Rising Nehru's World
OTHER PROJECTS ITIHASA SERIES 10+ books planned from Buddha to the present day.
Vetaal/Yogi Devi Darshan & Other Tales Sword of Dharma Three Princes Man With Celluloid Eyes & Various unfinished works
OUT OF PRINT BOOKS CONTEMPORARY NOVELS Byculla Boy YOUNG ADULT NOVELS Amazing Adventure at Chotta Sheher The Missing Parents Mystery NON-FICTION Bollywood CRIME NOVELS Ten Dead Admen Murder & Champagne The Iron Bra NON-PRINT+ONLINE eBOOKS
BOMBAY TIMES Brandwarriors A Mouthful of Sky Vortal Bad Karma
BULLET IN BOARD
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Dutch Uncle, Peter Pavia
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Lemons Never Lie, Richard Stark
Grave Descend, John Lange
What 10 Young Men Did, Dandin
Money Shot, Christa Faust
The Finder, Colin Harrison
Zero Cool, John Lange
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The Summoning, Bentley Little
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White Plague,Frank Herbert
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Fables: Vol 9, Sons of Empire
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Indelible, Karin Slaughter
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Greywalker, Kat Richardson
The Unquiet, John Connolly
Easy Prey, John Sandford
Deceit, James Siegel
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Song of Sussannah: The Dark Tower VI, Stephen King
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Batman: The Killing Joke Dispatch, Bentley Little
'Salems Lot, Stephen King Nothing To Lose, Lee Child
White Cargo, Stuart Woods
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
India After Gandhi, Ramachandra Guha
Invisible Prey, John Sandford
Tangents, Miguelanxo Prado
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Bad Luck & Trouble, Lee Child
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Mrityunjay, Sivaji Sawant
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Race OST
Bas Ek Pal OST
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The Gingerbread Girl: Audiobook adapted from the story by Stephen King
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Damages, Season 1
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Dance of the Dead Transsiberian Red Your Name is Justine Supernatural: Season 1
Entourage: Season 5
Quantum Leap: Season 5
Flashbacks of a Fool Hellboy 2 Kidnap Doomsday Mamma Mia Party of 5: Season 2
Wolverine & X-Men X-Men: Evolution Batman: Gotham Knight Fringe: Season 1
True Blood: Season 1
Entourage: Season 5
Californication: Season 2
Dexter: Season 3
Prison Break: Season 4
Wall-E A Wednesday Dan in real life Deathproof, Tarantino
Hitman Rock On! Seraphim Falls Redbelt, David Mamet
Phoonk 21 Mumbai Meri Jaan Beijing Olympics: Day 12
Beijing Olympics: Day 11
Jab We Met Beijing Olympics: Day 10
Beijing Olympics: Day 9
Beijing Olympics: Day 8
MTV Splitsvilla Dus Ka Dum Bachnaa Ae Haseeno Beijing Olympics: Day 7
The Bank Job Beijing Olympics: Day 6
Beijing Olympics: Day 5
Beijing Olympics: Day 4
Beijing Olympics: Day 3
Beijing Olympics: Day 2
Beijing Olympics: Day 1
The Power of Nightmares: Pt 3
The Power of Nightmares: Pt 2
The Power of Nightmares: Pt 1
Om Shanti Om Singh is King Matrix: Revolutions Kung Fu Panda Quantum Leap: Season 3
Johnny Gaddar Contract Quantum Leap: Season 2
The Dark Knight Quantum Leap: Season 1
Dr Horrible's Singalong Blog The Pursuit of Happyness The Middleman: Season 1
Swingtown: Season 1
Burn Notice: Season 1
Dr Who (2005) Hancock Jaane Tu...ya jaane na Hotel Babylon: Season 2
Sarah Connor Chronicles The Puppet Masters Cool Runnings Fear Itself, Episodes 1&2
Weeds: Season 4
Mere Baap...Pehle Aaap No Country For Old Men One Two Three (Hindi)
'Salem's Lot(1979) miniseries
Indiana Jones &Kingdom of The Crystal Skull Wolf Creek Late Show: Harrison Ford ep. 28 Weeks Later Lost: Season 4 Narnia: Prince Caspian Sunshine Resident Evil: Extinction Hostel 2 AVP: Requiem Turistas The Return House (1986) Jeepers Creepers 2 Jeepers Creepers The Reaping IPL Twenty20 Tournament Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Original 1955 series
Medium: Season 4
Columbo: Seasons 1-12
BROWSED Onion Uttapam: A cool new Indian satirical website!
Yearbook Yourself: Alter your profile pic to look like an old Yearbook photo.
Face Your Manga: Create+download a manga avatar of yourself!
Airtoons: Funny (often explicit) captions to airline safety illustrations.
Parallel Film Guide: A wiki about films that never existed!
NY Magazine Comics Page: Loads of free comic previews.
Twistori.com: Tweet agger.
Flip: Upside down fun!
Blog post on How to survive being tossed back through time to 1000 A.D.--the comments are full of fantastic advice!
Indrajal Comics Blog Fan scans of old Indrajal Comics!
The Comic Project More Indrajal Comics!
Twitter: The cutest invention since blogging, IMO.
Issuu.com Coolest new concept in online reading!
So Many Ramayanas Weird Books Blog (Warning: Explicitly Hilarious Imagery)
Pixenate Online photo-edits
SCRATCHED My butt: Top of left cheek
Under Willow's chin
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