Ashok Banker

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Ashok Kumar Banker[1][2] (born 7 February 1964 in Mumbai, India) is an author and screenwriter. His writing spans crime thrillers, essays, literary criticism, fiction and mythological retellings.[3] The author of several well-received novels including a trilogy billed as "India's first crime novels in English",[4] he became widely known for his retellings of Indian mythological epics, starting with the internationally acclaimed and best-selling eight-volume Ramayana Series.[5]

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  1. The Forest of Stories The Telegraph, 15 March 2012
  2. "An epic undertaking". The Hindu. 2012-03-21. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  3. Ashok Banker on real art, honest emotions Times of India, 6 April 2012
  4. Mystery of the missing jasoos Times of India 16 May 2010
  5. Why Does Indian Mythology Dominate Contemporary Fiction in India?

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