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Amish, the author of the Shiva Trilogy and the new Ram Chandra series, is the featured guest on the third edition of Firstpost Salon. While the author shot to fame with The Immortals of Meluha in 2010, the book becoming a huge commercial success, his following books that complete the trilogy — The Secret of The Nagas and The Oath of The Vayuputras — also became best sellers.

His latest book Scion of Ikshvaku is about the Ram Rajya in Ayodhya.

"Will Ram rise above the taint that others heap on him? Will his love for Sita sustain him through his struggle? Will he defeat the demon Lord Raavan who destroyed his childhood? Will he fulfil the destiny of the Vishnu? Begin an epic journey with Amish’s latest: the Ram Chandra Series," says the synopsis on the website of the book.

And if reports are anything to go by, it can be safely added to his best selling book list.

Amish, who was a banker before turning bestseller author, has written his books based on Hindu mythology and drawn from his vast knowledge of the subject. The huge sale of his books is a proof that he has been able to find a vast audience who love his writing.

As Firstpost's Sandip Roy noted in his profile of the author, "Amish’s books are not just popular in India but also among the Indian diaspora abroad who find in him Hinduism and philosophy packaged in adventure that their children can relate to. But there’s a temptation to read into Amish a story of a glorious and perfect Hindu past where chariots flew, Sita kicked butt and plastic surgery was routine."

That would however be missing one very important aspect. Amish has the questions but not the readily packaged answers.

"In the Scion of Ikshvaku, Ram Chandra has long conversations about a masculine empire which revolves around a strong purposeful leader and a feminine empire which is more about consensus. However the book says nothing about the superiority of one form over the other. It says instead these empires, and the need for them, go in cycles," Roy noted.