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November’s Free Online Read: BOMBAY TIMES!

Posted in Blog on Nov 9th, 2008

Hi.
I began the month with a hard disk crash that incapacitated my main computer. The data’s all fine and in the process of being recovered. But I’ll only get the computer back with the new hdd installed by 13th or 14th. Hence my delay in updating this blog, approving several backlogged comments, and starting this […]

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“My Sister, The Moon” - a short story by Ashok Banker featured on Pratilipi

Posted in Blog on Oct 6th, 2008

Click here to read “My Sister, The Moon” at Pratilipi

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SHOCKWAVE: Book 1 of The Vortal Codex free2read online!

Posted in Blog on Sep 29th, 2008

The free book-of-the-month for October 2008 will be SHOCKWAVE: Book 1 of The Vortal Codex.
It will be serialized online from Tuesday 7th October with a new excerpt posted daily (every morning before 9 a.m. IST) until the entire book is online, free for all to read. I’m not sure how many days exactly, but […]

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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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Dec08: Devi Darshan
Nov08: Bombay Times
Oct08: Vortal:Shockwave
Sept08: Ganesa Palindrome
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BOOKS IN PRINT
CONTEMPORARY NOVELS
Vertigo
RAMAYANA SERIES
Book 1: Prince of Ayodhya
Book 2: Siege of Mithila
Book 3: Demons of Chitrakut
Book 4: Armies of Hanuman
Book 5: Bridge of Rama
Book 6: King of Ayodhya
Book7:Vengeance of Ravana*
Book 8: Sons of Sita*
Collected as omnibus volumes
Vol I: PRINCE OF DHARMA
Vol II: PRINCE IN EXILE
Vol III: PRINCE AT WAR
Vol IV: KING OF DHARMA*
* = Forthcoming
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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Alizee
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Rome, Season 1
My Own Worst Enemy
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The Mechanic
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True Blood, Season 1
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Alien Autopsy
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Hostel: Unrated edition
Judgment Night
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Supernatural: Season 1
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Flashbacks of a Fool
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Wolverine & X-Men
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Hitman
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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
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My butt: Top of left cheek
Under Willow's chin

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