for the writers & the readers

as we said before

the emphasis nowadays is on 'doing'

rather than 'gnoing'

& the intelligent group of creatures called writers

are no exception to this observation

the extra special breed called fiction writers

(not that they gno what the word fiction really means)

seem most afflicted by this dis-ease

their frustration stems from having

nothing coherent to say

but the pretenders make it all seem like a

passing phase through terms like 'writers block'

so many wait on their keyboards

expecting the fingers to just start moving


distracting attention from the root of the issue

through word gymastics & crazy theorizing

is the most important function of the literary world

clarity is the enemy

which has to be diffused at any cost

varied opinions & confusion are put on a pedestal


people don't realize or conviniently forget that

the folks who have written the 'classics'

from the time of 'mahabharata' to 'iliad' to 'dune'

were all 'people in the gno'

of course the standards were decreasing from

the time of 'sage vyasa' to 'homer' to 'frank herbert'

the reason for decrease in standards being

the decrease in the praise of the 'divine'

from being 'ode's to divine' the writing was

turning into 'ode to the self or the beast'


the situation has hit rock bottom now

every average joe & jenny, sumit & sumitra is a writer

after reading a few novels

& watching a few soap operas - the very epitome of meaningfulness -

everyone feels equipped enough to join

the bandwagon of cheap entertainment

despite the high ground they would like to inhabit

the writers these days are no different from

the talentless hollywood/bollywood actors

meaningless actions/moves/words to attract attention

once again a desperate & ridiculuos attempt from

the unpraiseworthy to garner praise

and false praise they do get from

the hordes of wannabe's &

blind worshippers of the system


the 'randomly chosen ones'

are shoved down people's throats

through the allpowerful media-machine

otherwise why would millions have to read

incoherent gibberish like

'god of small things'

it can be easily retitled

'god of pointless babble'


millions of trees have to be cut

& billions worth of resources wasted

for the express purpose of

spreading mental indigestion


the most important thing is that

nothing written should make any sense

it should leave people with

the same quesy voidy unresolved feeling

which discovery channel documentaries

on issues like 'the paranormal' generate


so in the context of 'the now'

writer = mis-dis-information agent

whatever they write

needs to be dis-miss-ed


goes without saying that

penguin, harper collins, randomhouse (random!),

newspapers, magazines etal

won't be lining up to publish this