Whatever author is saying is very true. I can tell one incident. Once in a group of colleagues everybody was discussing " what they are reading now a day". I taol Premchand and one guy said oh those "cheap novels". I had to explain him that he was a big writer and we had his stories in school. He couldn't recollect and still thought that he was a writer of some "sadakchap hindi novels". Amazingly my colleague is from hindi belt. Well how many people knew about Sukhdev and rajguru before "Rnag De Basanti" got released. We are loosing it.
RE:Very true
by Shahryar Pax on Feb 16, 2007 11:56 PM Permalink
I am a Kenyan-born of Indian antecedents (who has yet to visit India) and I am pleased to say I have read Premchand's Godaan (in English translation). I wonder if anyone reads Mulk Raj Anand nowadays ...
Is this ignorance of Indian literature due to Congress Party's domination in govt. for the last 60 years?
In Kenya we were encouraged to read African writers when studying English Literature in schools!
