( Bonus: He discovers that he is now also an expert in every national issue and can pontificate effortlessly. His characters just seem to spring out of nowhere and fade into nothingness between the covers, doing exactly what he bids them in between. He is surprised at the ease with which he is able to do this. After all exposing cliches as reality (without getting into the complexities that make them a part of life) is his role.Ĥ. He might be able to finish an entire plot in one sitting. He doesn't realize this, but the role he has assigned makes it very easy for him to crank out book after book with almost minimal effort.ģ. Having worked out his grand role thus, this self-appointed common man's author sits down to write.Ģ. Conclusion: He has the recipe for an untapped new brand of literature - exploring the lives of the common men of India. It also has to employ poor language because not only is he the common man's voice, but his readers are also the common men, who wants the processed goods, the easy stuff.Ħ. So it has to be non-literary and cliched.

And they have to be cliched and not too intricate - because the common man's life is just not complicated enough for a Dostoevskian treatment (god forbid!), or for a 'literary treatment'Ĥ. So has a responsibility to pick up mundane topics and themesģ. He has convinced himself that he is supposed to be the common man's authorĢ. This reviewer is setting it down here, so that he can try breaking out of it and stop crowding out other better-written books.ġ. He wrote a couple of decent works and then got caught in a loop. Once upon a time, there was a guy who wanted to be an author. Give us simple but also different and new. I am not an elitist, I used to really like you.

Who’ve written good books and screenplays too.īut you’ve got too carried away and lost the act,Īnd quoting your Alma matter to hide that fact. They have better IQs than that, don’t underestimate them.Īre you trying to increase you reader hood?

You claim that your writing is for the rich to the slums, Your sexist one-liners are witty no more,ĭon’t you remember, you’ve told them before? I can write your next story to Bhagat’s perfection.īut excuse me mister, where is the storyline? Same story twice, can be an honest mistake.īut three and four times? Give me a break! Since then you are stooping to your lowest low, I loved you once when you wrote good fun. Hasn’t even escaped Bhagat’s prejudiced preferences. This book breaks no language differences, The back cover talks about Hindi and English,Īll that is just plain marketing rubbish. Where are you headed, do you have a clue?Ī prestigious college, stereotypic routine!įront page ad in TOI, for a book like this?

Half gf novel