A.Banker's Ramayana

The Ramayana? Again? Written by, of all people, a Banker? Shucks...a con job with its own tell tale rattle. Or should that be tattle? Whatever....Doh! Is this the zillionth reinvention of the wheel or what? Some dude who got lucky and sold the epic to those gullible firangs…just like our politicos who tried selling off the Taj Mahal( or was that just a 99 year lease?) or Britney Spears who sold a virginal image to a salivating public!
Sheesh maan…i wouldnt be caught dead reading rehash # 100000000000.
You’ve heard of famous last words? Hmmmmph…they musta invented the expression keepin me in mind. I not only went and read 'The Prince of Ayodhya', i read it in one single sitting( actually a combo of sitting, lounging, squatting…ad nauseum) till my eyes grew larger than Aamir Khan’s ego. And that’s big, believe you me!
I just lurved the way the story was retold, the tension in the narrative that kept my reading bowstring taut till it quivered unbearably….i consumed the book like a starving Somali would a feast…and then proceeded to eat my words, if not with relish, with a certain flavor that inevitability brings.
This book rocks, and i’m in love with the Ramayana all over again, and i can't wait to dig into the other five. And, for once i can pass off gluttony as an epic-urean taste…lol:-))
Thanx Ashok. Now stop preening and get to writing a thousand more books, coz i’m going to live long, and i need to be entertained.