Name Ashok Rajagopalan | Role Writer | |
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Books Gajapati Kulapati, Sunu-sunu Snail: Storm in the Garden, The Odyssey | ||
Neelakshi: The Quest for Amrit
Ashok Rajagopalan (also known under the blogging pseudonym Kenny Wordsmith) is an Indian writer and artist for over 500 children's books. Rajagopalan has also worked as a graphic designer, freelance cartoonist, and has contributed to the children's magazines Impulse Hoot and Impulse Toot. He first began illustrating children's stories with a piece in the 1989 magazine Junior Quest. Before working in illustration Rajagopalan received a mechanical engineering diploma and worked as a marketing executive, but found that he disliked the experience. In 2011 he participated in a Kickstarter campaign to fund a comic he was co-creating with the artist Asvin Srivatsangam entitled Neelakshi:The Quest for Amrit.
Neelakshi:The Quest for Amrit will be published Yali Dream Creations by end of 2013.
He will be working on Yali Dream Creations' first novel with a tentative title 'Kandiva'.