Mumbai our commercial capital has many blots that never seem to go away. Its slums , its poluted creeks, it overcrowded trains that lug millions from station to station, its World Bank financed drainage system that never works during the monsoons etc . But nothing is a greater blot on that city than the fact that it is home to Shobhaa de. That Shobhaa de has written 14 books evidences nothing more than the falling standards of what could be called the common reader ! A person like Shobhaa De , who lives in the world of Pg3 can never even get a hint of what this great nation is! It probably reflects inner arrognace that she considered herself fit to do that. Shobhaa de's vision cannot extend beyond what she can see from her Cuffe flat and sadly it is not India . Will I buy it or will I read it . The answer is No . I will prefer to read about the Indian Civilisation when Ekta Kapoor pens one! I can wait! Sorry I borrowed the subject ! Could not resist it !
RE:About this lady less said is better
by VENURAJA gopal Bowenpalle on May 05, 2008 10:37 AM Permalink
Your writing is a bit interesting. Any book on india without its spritualism as a way of life of ordinary indian shall be worthless. India's strength is its sprituality. That is the reason Mahatma Gandhi was born here and explains why Lord Buddha,Lord Mahavira or Lord Krishna takes birth here. Why for example the recent one Osama bin Laden was not born here? Why Mahatma Gandhi? Why Lord Buddha was born here why not Adolf Hitler and why not a Mao setung or a Mussolini? Why a book like "In search of secreat India" sells like hot cake even after so many years after its publication? The book was written by a journalist from England during the British Raj and shows how India is very spritual and how people, who could be very well mistaken as a common man in India may turn out to be an extrordinary man of spritual powers unbelievable to any westerner. When you read the book you would immediately say "how incredible is India?" but when Paul Brunton wrote it, there was no slogan like "incredible India" by tourism department because it was the British Raj and it was telling the whole world that uncivilized Indians have been taught civilization and that had been their "white man's burden". British taught us how to be corrupt and smoking (there was no tobacco in India before British Raj)etc., I am yet to read Shoba De 's book. The one thing we should appreciate about her is that at age 61 she has a great zest for life ,feels young and her voice very sincere.
