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.
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 (2009)
Ramayana Podiobooks Vol I: Prince of Ayodhya KALI GRAPHIC NOVELS Vol I: Becoming Kali (2010)
Vol II: Stray Gods (2010)
KRISHNA CORIOLIS (2010+)
Slayer of Kamsa Dance of Govinda 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 Dark 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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The Last Match, David Dodge
Point of Impact, Stephen Hunter
Dead Watch, John Sandford
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The Gingerbread Girl: Audiobook adapted from the story by Stephen King
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The Getaway (1972)
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The Power of Nightmares: Pt 3
The Power of Nightmares: Pt 2
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The Dark Knight Quantum Leap: Season 1
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Burn Notice: Season 1
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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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