--- On Tue, 23/3/10, Deepa Mohan <mohande...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Deepa Mohan <mohande...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Tuesday, 23 March, 2010, 10:07
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Indrajit Gupta <bonoba...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: Absolutely classic? Suresh, you git, what's wrong with you? A series of vicious remarks, no before and after, no backing for the statements made, and that's absolutely classic? Suresh, you really like this? While I might not express myself with such vehemence, I do feel that the essay is not a well-thought-out, logical or reasonable one, for all the reasons IG mentions. And I too ask the question, "Why are F*me and F*ck interchangeable 4-letter words only when it comes to famous women?" However...to compare the God Of Small Things (this may be the first time in several years that this novel's ACTUAL name is mentioned without spoofing it) with To Kill A Mockingbird is....I'm sorry, I'm no Arundhati Roy, I can't find a telling enough simile. To Kill A Mockingbird is permeated throughout by two rare characteristics: good writing, and goodness. Apparently Gregory Peck was, in real life, a person like Atticus Finch; it's the goodness of his character, and the innocence of the narrator, and the skill with which it's brought out by the author, that lifts this book to the level of good literature. Now, Bonobashi has turned into Suresh-bashi....If Suresh likes it, IG, he has a right to his opinion...er, by the way, what's a "git"? Pavithra, good point :) =========================================== Hey, that's OK, D., Suresh liked the review, and he has a right to his opinion; I didn't, and I have a right to mine. Suresh put up a scurrilous review, scurrilous in every sense of the word, not his own, somebody else's poisonous little epistle. I responded with my own bit of poison, which has at least the virtue of being entirely my own bit of hate. bonobashi
