Biographies at a city bookstore. Picture by Prashant Mitra

Ranchi, April 8: Biographies are gaining popularity among book lovers these days. The biographies of personalities like Sunil Dutt, Nargis, Dev Anand and L.K. Advani are selling like hot cakes in bookstores of Ranchi.

Life of eminent personalities have always intrigued the masses and this is getting amply proved by the sale of the biographies.

Among the recent released biographies the most sought after books are Mr and Mrs Dutt: Memories of Our Parents by Namrata Dutt and Priya Dutt and Dev Anand’s Romancing with Life.

Namrata Dutt and Priya Dutt have penned their family struggles, the ups and downs that they had to encounter as family and their relationship with their parents and brother Sanjay Dutt.

Pradeep Burman, the owner of the bookshop Gyan Deep, described the above book as a tribute of the children to their parent. “We have sold 15 copies in the first two months. There are many international bestsellers but many of our customers are coming asking for this book,” said Burman.

Romancing with Life by Dev Anand is also doing brisk business. “It’s a runaway hit. We had 30 copies of the book, which were picked by book lovers within a month,” said Burman.

“The book written by Priya and Namrata Dutt has also received rave reviews. As they deal with more intimate and personal lives of eminent personalities they are selling like hot cakes. We sold 12 copies of this book till now,” said owner of Book Zone, Vinod Poddar.

Poddar said though much hyped books like Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth have been released recently the people are still looking for Romancing with Life. “We have run out of the stock. The demand of books written by high profile people are becoming very popular,” said Poddar.

The latest biography to have hit the racks is My Country My Life written by BJP Prime Ministerial nominee L.K. Advani.

“We have sold seven copies of this book already. But this book is mostly being purchased by people related to the education field,” said Pradeep Burman.

A retired teacher of Goverment Girls’ High School, Nitayanand Singh, had purchased Advani’s book and he said: “BJP leader gives first person account of the tragedy during partition and his life as a politician. He talks about his journey when he just joined politics to becoming the Deputy Prime Minister.”

Amrita Kumari, a final-year student of St Xavier’s College, said Dev Anand’s book is worth reading. “Through this book I got to know a lot about the star’s love life and his leading ladies.”