Let me first thank Karthika, who took a look at Jasoda and thought the eponymous lady should go public as soon as possible. But before that happened, Karthika herself had disappeared from HarperCollins. Luckily for me, her colleague, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri, and the new Publisher, Udayan Mitra, both believed in Jasoda. However, there were still a few bizarre problems.
When you take twenty years to complete a book, chances are you lose all sense of time, and you are not even aware that the timeline within the story has gone so haywire, some of the characters might have become older than Methuselah. Fortunately, Shantanu, Udayan and their colleague Rahul Soni pointed out this peculiar phenomenon. It took me a few days to transform myself into God but I can now assure anyone who is 966 years old that I can, within a day or two, work miracles and make her/him younger by more than nine hundred and odd years. (Please contact my secretary about fees for this miraculous return to youth without Botox or various other cosmetic surgeries.)
A big thank you then to the editing team at HarperCollins.