People supposed to be bad were showing shades of good. When I started writing the story, almost every character refused to follow the sketch I had made for him or her. I prepared short summaries of each chapter. I wrote character sketches in Word documents.

“So, I dutifully made date plans in an Excel file. They advise you to determine the strengths and weaknesses of your characters. These books tell you to imagine your characters like real people. Since I was more of a sports guy when I was young and had not much to do with books, I started by reading up on how to write, such as Stephen King’s On Writing. And then he regrouped, and won the battle.ĭescribing his early attempt with the series, he says: “I tried writing in an MBA style. He did start out with a strategic attack plan-and it failed miserably. Tripathi’s fame and fortune appear more the result of a Robert the Bruce approach to writing (“If at first you don’t succeed.'). “If there was one, it would have been in self-help books on writing. “There is no such formula,' says the author.

Just how does one become a filthy rich writer like Tripathi? His Shiva uses everyday words like ‘dammit’ and ‘bloody’!' “The series gives me a different take on Shiva, and Amish’s writing is wonderfully colloquial. It was actually mythology that killed Sati, not the writer, but no matter-Ganesh is still a fan of this New Age supergod. “The end put me off because Amish killed Sati, but that’s a small quibble,' she says. Vanita Ganesh, a college student in Gurgaon, has already finished reading all 565 pages of the Vayuputras. And this is east Delhi, where usually nobody reads!' You see it everywhere: in Metro stations and at bus stops.įood critic Anoothi Vishal, who lives in Delhi’s IP Extension, says: “I was walking by a footpath bookseller in my neighbourhood’s DDA market when I spotted young readers excitedly asking for the latest Amish.

It has monopolized the pavement bookstalls of Connaught Place and the mobile sales teams of traffic light vendors on Ring Road. In Delhi, the Vayuputras has displaced William Dalrymple, Gurcharan Das, Shobhaa Dé, Tavleen Singh, Pankaj Mishra and even Chetan Bhagat from the window displays of most book stores. The new book hit stores in the style of a Bollywood blockbuster taking over multiplex screens.

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