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June 25, 2014
On in-laws
Tulsis were a hilarious lot as in-laws of Mr. Biswas. It looks as if his life was spent defying the domineering Tulsis. The family being almost Matriarchal, every son-in-law joined it, to render his services to further the name of Tulsis. Being a rebel, Mr. Biswas suffered Tulsis but walked out often, unlike other sons-in-law.
In ‘The mystique messieurs’, Pandit Ganesh nearly bargains every penny out of his would be father-in-law as dowry, and does not dedicate his only book to him, many years later. The book answers the Hindu religious questions in a matter of fact way, and helps in establishing Pandit Ganesh’s political career. But he was to migrate to London.
Naipaul does well to deal with the Hindu in-laws he knew. But he spared his own English or Pakistani ones.
The in-laws have made a fortune while escaping malaria or diarrhea. I mean the beginning was as humble for them. But the father-in-law dies in a car crash. It was a trendy Japanese SUV he was driving on the highway. Dilip says his father-in-law must have looked upon his death with satisfaction, from the heavens, for his humble beginning. The bonus was a few column centimeters of news in the national daily, his car accident also secured, with the brand of the car also mentioned.
In ‘The royal enigma’ it was a disappointment, that his father-in-law could not begin a political career, for Dilip, as he might have liked to die in a crash of a private jet….
June 22, 2014
June 20, 2014
Literary Hatchet buried?
It seems this reviewer or columnist is so at peace wit the literary world that he is almost a pacifist. And he thinks his laziness or lack of competence or knowledge in literary matters is that of everyone in The USA or elsewhere.
This kind of complacency you expect from a magazine feature-writer, which has become so venerated that no one is surprised by its content recently and so has ceased to care what it publishes.
Even a casual look at literary forums is enough to discover how thriving a place it is to be.
If you consider Goodreads as one, I can assure you it has trashed more NY bestsellers than any other forums. Almost all the popular books of Vampire fiction, mommy porn or young adult genres have been obliterated to pieces for their not being a true literature.
So ignorance is not a bliss. Reading public is more critical than many think, and it is reading more diversely than ever. The Hatchet was never buried. Readers are out there to skin the feable writers or critics in the literary world.
June 18, 2014
Faking emotions
His work was like faking emotions, to calm or create the anxieties of the society about it. Just like a woman faking an orgasm, to manipulate her man.
June 15, 2014
Words saturate the world
It seems more words are useless. The world has enough of them.
Probably we have so much around that even if all the reading people try to make a conscious effort at finish them reading together, they might not succeed. It is so while people are reading several times more the number of words each day, than they used to say a decade back.
Still people have not given up producing words or reading them.
May be the importance of the words the readers look for has been accentuated by the absence of them.
Good writers will always be in demand.
Bad ones can not hide behind their words for ever.
June 12, 2014
June 11, 2014
The last nail in her coffin
A scandalous literary career over, without producing anything remarkable. Becoming absurdly rich was the first set back. Taking up publicly a political cause by a writer is the last nail in her coffin.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/11/jk-rowling-donates-scotland-anti-independence-campaign
June 10, 2014
Hope you too find it an engaging read.
Hi!
Here it is in PDF. The royal enigma.
It is an epic novel dealing with socio-political aspect of Nepal and
India, and by implication, of the larger world as well.
It nearly covers everything in that way, and does not agree with what
is popularly believed about the society and the people around. Also it
has a few chapters on how aspiring writers become corrupted by the
publishing industry and media organisations, to write what they are
asked to, by often becoming journalists.
It already has won a few excellent reviews, as you can check.
Hope you too find it an engaging read.
June 2, 2014
Literary insults
It doesn’t cover all I have in my mind. Thanks folks at Guardian. At least you are good at this. I am looking for something more though.
May 29, 2014
Sensational stuff
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