“Now we are bringing out the fifth edition which will be without the two pages that contained disparaging remarks about Prophet Mohammad. The author called me on Friday morning and told me to delete the offending portions,” said Shivani Mukherjee, owner of People’s Book Society, which has published all the five books in the series.

She said that the sudden increase in the sales was probably because of the controversy about the contents of the book. “The reason is very obvious. It is the controversy regarding the book. So far more than 40,000 copies had been sold,” the publisher added.

The first in the series Amaar Meyebela (My childhood) sold the most — more than 70,000.