Watch author Amish Tripathi at the 16th Hindustan Times Leadership Summit talk about leaving his bank job and writing books. Titles from the Shiva Trilogy and the Ram Chandra series, by 44-year-old Amish Tripathi, are permanent fixtures on the Indian fiction best seller lists. His books take off from Hindu mythology and feature fresh and imaginative retellings of episodes from the lives of well-loved deities.