What makes the unassuming Amish one of India’s biggest novelists? It’s not just about telling a tale, he reveals, in an exclusive tell-all
Banker on sabbatical, and bestselling author now riding the wave of success, Amish Tripathi is disarmingly honest when he says he still gets up in the middle of the night wondering “how did this happen?” The ‘this’ of course is the massive success almost all his books have had, the sheer reach computable in the number of copies to the number of language translations, and a dedicated readership that awaits the next title almost as much as the author himself.
And all in just seven years, after self publishing his first, The Immortals of Meluha, back in 2010, after many in the business rejected it, because ‘who wants to read any mythology?’ Turns out, many did! Then came the remaining two from the Shiva Trilogy, The Secret of the Nagas (2011) and The Oath of the Vayuputras (2013). And now, it’s the Ram Chandra Series with Scion of Ikshvaku which topped charts recently and of course, the second in the series, Sita, Warrior of Mithila (2017), which has just hit book shops and Kindle stores.
Despite 3.5 million copies in print and sales of Rs 100 crores and counting, Amish still does not take his success for granted. After his first book was rejected, someone even advised he should instead, ‘write a love story from your IIM days’.
This story is from the June 2017 edition of The MAN.
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