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Ashok Kumar Banker (natural 1964) is a novelist and short story writer born and dwelling around Mumbai, India. He has written professionally since his early teens, & has worked as a print journalist, columnist, scriptwriter for television series and documentaries, and around advertising.
Banker has published around many genres, ranging from either contemporary fiction about urban life in India to multi-volume mythological epics, when well as science fiction, fantasy, and cross-genre works. His foremost 3 novels to become published were crime thrillers, claimed to be a number 1 written by an Indian novelist around English. It gained him far flung attention & the reputation for existence the crime novelist that has clung to him despite his non getting written crime novels since [http://www.epicindia.com/indianenglish/2005/04/its-crime-book-review-of-srinagar.html], though he has written short crime fiction, occasionally of which involves characters from either a novels [http://www.epicindia.com/indianenglish/2005/04/flesh-songs-sheila-ray-story.html]. A stories of his "Devi" series come short works featuring avatars of the Hindu goddess Devi, & use at times appeared within various science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazines.
3 of his novels contain autobiographical elements and come closely related 1 an additional. His number one novel (though a 4th promulgated) Lightheadedness is just about a human struggling to produce the successful career & page life within Bombay (the previous title of Mumbai). Byculla Son will require its title from either a Byculla suburb of Bombay where he & his mother grew higher. Beautiful Horrible & a complementary documentary of a same title come the tribute to his mother, portraying the tragical cases of her life [http://www.epicindia.com/indianenglish/2005/06/my-mother-and-i-intensely-personal.html].
With completed the six-volume retelling around English of the Indian heroic of the Ramayana that has gained him worldwide attention, he is working on the nine-volume adaptation of the Mahabharata. Which are actually meant to become a portion of a big sequence treating by owning the major myths of India, along using ii however-to-exist as published series that may other clearly blend myth with science fiction image & quantum mechanics [http://www.thealienonline.net/interviews/ashok_banker_mar03.asp]. A Krishna Coriolis is to tell a life of Krishna beyond the Mahabharata, & A Ganesa Palindrome is to become placed in the present & far first & focus in Ganesha, Kalki, and a prevent of the Day of Brahma.
Banker as well has plans for The Indus Saga, the series of historical novels presenting the endure 2500 years of Indian history from the perspective of the Indian humans.
He wrote the short non-fiction book about Bollywood entitled Bollywood: The Pocket Essential (2001).
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A Ramayana series:
A Prince of Ayodhya (2003)
Siege of Mithila (2003)
Demons of Chitrakut (2004)
Armies of Hanuman (2005)
Bridge of Rama (2005)
King of Ayodhya (2006)
A Mahabharata series:
A Seeds of War (2006)
His more novels include:
A Cast-iron Bandeau (1993)
Execution & Champagne (1993)
Ten Dead Admen (1993)
Lightheadedness (1993)
Byculla Son (1994)
A Missing Parents Mystery (1994)
Beautiful Horrible (forthcoming)
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