After the Shiva trilogy, Amish Tripathi will come up with a series on lord Ram
Amish Tripathi announced that his next series, for which he had signed a whopping Rs5 crore deal last year, will be based on lord Ram. “After the Shiva trilogy, I have decided to work upon a series of books on lord Ram. I am not sure how many books I will write in the series. It could be five or more,” said Tripathi at JlF. The first book in the series, titled Scion of Ishkwaku, is likely to be out in the market by October this year. “I was curious to know what led lord Ram to leave his wife for whom the entire battle with Ravana was fought,” the author said.
The banker-turned-author refused to give more details about his forthcoming series set for publication by Westland. “When my son’s teacher asked him in school about my profession he replied innocently that dad used to be a banker earlier but now he works for lord Shiva. So, now I am going to be working for lord Ram. What it will be, you will get to know in due course,” he said.
The author had hit headlines last year when he signed a deal considered to be among one of the biggest in the Indian publishing industry, but it wasn’t decided then what the series is going to be about. “I never wanted to be an author. I was more academic oriented and was good in crunching numbers so I turned into a banker. My communication skills as a banker came handy when I happened to be an author,” Tripathi said.
The 40-year-old author traces his fascination for Indian mythology to his family. “My grandfather was a pandit from Benaras and that was my first exposure to epics. He used to narrate stories and explain them to me and say that you need to ask questions even to God,” he said.