Comments on: A Bestselling Legacy

By: +: etcetera :+ » Leaps Never Made

+: etcetera :+ » Leaps Never Made — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:07:16 +0000

[…] No wonder the Tamil publishing industry languishes, with a 5000 copy run considered outstanding. No wonder every writer wants to become the clueless moron churning out sensationalized murder mysteries. No wonder the one guy (with skin thinner than Antara Mali2) that sells a few more books than the others is deified, and (ironically enough) all the magazines want him to write serialized novels for them. No wonder there hasn’t been a book of note for the last twenty years, and no wonder all the good writers out of India want to write in English. […]

By: Karthik

Karthik — Tue, 03 May 2005 00:30:29 +0000

I have sensed this in him too — he is never that enthusiastic about recommending writing as a profession. Maybe out of goodwill, because he has struggled a lot, or because he is not the encouraging sort.

I think his birthday is on the 3rd of May…, and I just realized the 3rd is Tuesday, not Wednesday.

By: tilo

tilo — Mon, 02 May 2005 17:47:52 +0000

sorry — it is my 4th comment on the post but this is what I am talking about.….…

http://www.hindu.com/mp/2005/04/28/stories/2005042800540100.htm

By: tilo

tilo — Mon, 02 May 2005 14:24:05 +0000

Just last week he said something in one of The Hindu articles about ” Thank god I had the sense to keep my day job”.

I remember being completely turned off by that — I am come on, how much more successful do you have to be commercially to be able to do that. Well, if he retired like 10 years ago, I guess that point is moot.

Still if he really believes what he said then a part-time writer really should not wait for all those Indian equivalents of the Nobel! He should be pleased with his fan-following.

By: tilo

tilo — Mon, 02 May 2005 14:12:22 +0000

Next wednesday — OK that wwould explain why there is no “Happy B’day Dude” yet on Lazy’s.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Mon, 02 May 2005 02:26:19 +0000

It shouldn’t matter at all — if you are sure of what you want. Sujatha (I might be wrong here) seems like he craves for critical recognition — he is usually critical of bestsellers (comparing them to banana peels), and it must rankle when you are judged as a producer of something you disdain.

Of late (from his Vikatan articles), it appears that his skin has grown thinner — almost every week he takes a dig at Tamil critics for being ready to find fault.

By: tilo

tilo — Mon, 02 May 2005 01:57:06 +0000

and one of the few Tamil writers who will respond instantly to your email critquing one of his stories . why should it bother, tell me, this lack of recognition from the literary world?Does it really matter all that much?