Raavan is the darkest book I have ever written. I will never attempt something like this again, says Amish
Dressed in a checked grey shirt and black trousers, Amish Tripathi looks radiant as he steps into the library of his plush apartment in a swanky 60-storey residential tower, the newest address of affluence in suburban Mumbai. The reading room resembles a luxurious five-star lounge, with transparent curtains falling from a high oakwood ceiling and round sofas with colourful cushions. It offers an enviable view of the city’s skyline, which is gloriously coloured in shades of orange and grey on a wet Saturday evening. “Please order something. You have to have something,” he insists.
Soon after, he double checks my recorder to confirm that it is on, narrating an anecdote from a past interview in a Delhi hotel which went unrecorded and led to chaos. This is how our conversation begins—naturally, over a cup of green tea and his favourite cream biscuits.
It was the cream in the cracker that came to his rescue when the going got tough and “extremely complicated” with the writing of his recently launched, Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta, the third instalment in the five-book Ramchandra series.
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