Rights Wrong Write

Its an age old belief that Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth follows and always comes after saraswati, the goddess of knowledge. The wise and well read also said that the true lustre of knowledge and wisdom, the sheer brilliance of art and literature is often found to shine from underneath the clutter of poverty and obscurities.

 There might be a few exceptions to the latter statement, but the bare sense of rating Saraswati over Lakshmi holds a lot of meaning. Have we somehow lost this teaching? Or has the teaching itself lost upon us? Whichever might be the voice used, lakshmi clearly seems to be leading the way today, and the ‘New Age Indian Authors’ who are also the point of talk in this article, are the staff holders of this lakshmi led regime. 

As common as it is for people to want to be heard, it is also quite common for people to have stories; not to mention the crave for fame and the desire to tame success. A mix of all this is what gives rise to the tragedy called “The New Age Indian Author”. Yeah, what follow is going to take an aggressive turn against the new age Indian authors, so if you like the Chetan Bhagats and Rashmi Bansals, you stop here. 

Everyone has stories, and everyone likes to be heard, the more people hear you the more happy you feel and if popularity, success and money come along, then who wouldnt want to become a writer? My question to these authors is- doesn’t writing have a purpose?  are just money, success or popularity reasons enough for writing books? Or do they even care about any of this?

When I first thought I could also turn author, I came up with an attractive and a fairly interesting prologue. Thrilled at this, I showed it to my dad, who is again an author,  but by no means has new or age on his side

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‘It’s not bad. I think you might have an interesting story to tell, but I wouldn’t give a good review, you have a story and you mean well but thats not enough. You also know Kannada well, but not quite enough to be an author. Be more descriptive, romance a little with the words, make reading a pleasure. Make it look like literature and not a news report.’ Said my father.

I was not surprisingly, crushed and a little hurt; which led me to conclude that my father was too old for lite reading.  Only now I realise that this ‘lite reading’ is a bug. A bug that is one of the reasons for the encroachment of these new age authors on an enchanted lane of literature paved long before there existed a ‘lite reading’. 

While speaking to my aunt on this topic, she seemed to be outraged, her exact words were

‘Just because you have a lot of money and know people in publishing, it doesn’t give you right to put crap on paper. That’s reader abuse!’

True, I thought. How many IIMs have you seen turning into authors? Or as my aunt said, serve crap on paper. You take the names, but it holds good for most. This is where we see lakshmi taking lead over Saraswati. Just because you are rich and have an IIM diploma it doesn’t mean you have what it takes to write. I wouldn’t want to go on to explain how bad the writes can get, mostly because I don’t want to get in trouble, and also because I don’t want my post to turn too big. 

All said and done, I do believe people are good at heart, even if you’re an IIM. So just stick to being good.

Reminds me of a song that translates to ‘A Bird that spans the skies doesn’t expect an award for being what she is’ 

Are we so obsessed with success and popularity that we expect recognition for being selfless? Does that even count as being selfless? Or has selflessness become another qualification to sell yourself?

What started off as an expression of dissatisfaction for bad books and poor literature by these story sellers has manifested into something much different. Nonetheless it is worth thinking. Do we need to accept and implement these new found definitions and meanings of selflessness? Or would we use it as a cynical complement? Think!

Oh yeah..  I almost forgot... Don’t buy their books if you like English

  

Can't you see??

The politics of Karnataka has really done it this time..  I don't mean in the sense that its caught national attention, or that its the 4th or 5th time his "excellency" the governor of karnataka HR Bharadwaj has asked the cheif minister B S Yeddyurappa, lets call him Yeddy, (the whole country does ) to prove his majority in the house or that the governor is a congress man or whatever..  what really gets to me is how can these damn politicians be so dumb?? i mean.. lets recap.. karnataka has never had a bjp govt.. and people of karnataka are not really the bjp type too.. so what really made us bring the bjp govt to power? I'll tell you.. its the dumb opposition.. thats right.. its people who are not a part of bjp are the ones responsible for bjp's success.

It was the period of 2006- 2007, kumaraswamy and yeddy were running a coalition govt.. it set a lot of sparks between kumaraswamy and his dad deve gowda.. but still everything was cool for kumarswamy.. hmm.. need to find a short for kumarswamy.. lets call him kumar.. or kumara.. that sounds more like kannada... yeah.. so everything was cool for kumara and yeddy, and also the public.. but they're politicians right? cant expect much from them.. it so happened that  in nov '07 when yeddy was supposed to take over the cm's seat.. kumara back stabbed yeddy.. yeah.. this was where it all started..
at that point, yeddy got a lot of public sympathy.. this is what made the people of karnataka vote for bjp in the elections of '08.. and obviously when when someone had the public sympathy.. hes bound to win.. so yeddy and the bjp came to power in '08 curtsey of shri. H D kumaraswamy.

My folly with the dumb head of the opposition doesnt end there... after the govt was formed.. the opposition plus the governor.. oh i forgot his "excellency" yeah his "excellency" the governor of karnataka joined in with the opposition with a mission to bring down the bjp govt.. so they dug deep.. found out skeletons of all shapes and sizes... and the people were also angry for some time.. thats when the governor asked yeddy to prove his majority in the house.. once? twice... thats ok.. but his "excellency" has used all his majority requests.. hey yeah! there should be a limit for this.. after which it would show " you have exceeded you limit of trying to bring down the govt." anyway.. so yeddy "somehow" comes on top on all occasions.. and the public is finally cool for some time.

Does the governor like it?? nawwwwwwwwwwww... so he sets out again and calls out for another proof of majority on the floor of the house... this has got to be the limits.. and i dont mean it politically.. i mean it in a common sense way.. doesnt the opposition have a head?? really? so desperate that you forgot that heavy load of crap on your shoulders?? once kumara successfully made sure that yeddy gets the chair.. now they're doing it again... by making it look so obvious that they are trying to overthrow the govt.. the public are getting into the act too.. even the people who generally would be indifferent or even hate yeddy have started developing a soft corner for yeddy.. this is what the opposition has managed to do.. make sure that yeddy and the bjp never lose in karnataka.. doenst this make you wanna look at them and say "how dumb can you get??"
meanwhile... my advice to yeddy... just stall my man.. the opposition and everyone that hates you are making sure that you win..

ok now the major question.. whats the point of this write?
lets hope yeddy or bjp or any politics related noob doesn't get to read this.. but i only meant to say that they're just manipulating us.. now the politicians may or may not have realized that whatever they do has an effect on us.. firstly because of the mob mentality and second, that in india, everyone loves to take sides.. so.. what i mean to say.. is just dont give in.. if you are beat to shit and made to vote for a party on the election day.. then please dont fight back.. give in.. but your head.. thats yours.. just dont let anyone play with your head.. atleast not these dumb guys.. just know what you want and dont let anyone play with your head.. peace!