In 2007, Amitav Ghosh reportedly received about Rs 55 lakh for his Ibis Trilogy, and Nandan Nilekani Rs 25 lakh for ‘Imagining India’. Previous advances that made waves are a reported £1million (approx Rs 8 crore) for the worldwide rights to Vikram Seth’s sequel to ‘A Suitable Boy’, and a Rs 97 lakh-payout for seven of historian Ramachandra Guha’s books, both by Penguin. “It’s been a crazy last few days,” said the writer, during a break between book-signing events that had queues of delirious fans dressed up as Shiva and chanting ‘Har Har Mahadev’. It’s the largest advance we’ve ever paid, and the largest Indian deal.” Amish was a banker before the success of his second book prompted him to quit and become a full-time author. “It’s a pre-emptive bid of Rs 5 crore for the book, audio and e-publishing rights to his next series for the south-Asian region. “We made the deal based on Amish’s sales record,” says Gautam Padmanabhan, CEO of Westland. Westland, which published the trilogy, is paying up the big fat advance even though the writer hasn’t decided what his next book will be about. With five lakh copies of his mythological fantasy ‘ The Oath of the Vayuputras’ sold within a day of its release earlier this week, Amish has become the new “literary popstar” as Shekhar Kapur described him. In what is being touted as the biggest advance paid to an Indian author by a home-grown publishing house, Westland has given Amish Tripathi, author of the Shiva trilogy, Rs 5 crore - close to $1 million - as an advance for his next series.
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