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Samarth have u read Anita Desai ? C , You ?

Hey! Moderator and me! I am warning you. All participants will run away. They may not get any floor at all.😆

Koolsadhu… Have I not mastered the art of being cute?😊 But don't frighten me with these 'intellectual' and 'distinguished'. I simply enjoy discussing my limited reading here which is not much of the case with friends who would never go beyond Arthur C. Clarke and would start yawning if a word of even Mocking bird is mentioned, let alone Saratji-almost a century old. Saratji or K.M.Munshi or Pannalal Patel are the legacy of the Family where Uncles and Aunts were used to invite Jagmohan or Jyuthika Rey to the household full of hustles and bustles-An old world, already gone past.

Kool , I have not read Anita Desai and for all her dexterity with English I did not like Kiran much.

She has mauled A Gujarati gentleman in very bad manner! 😡

We are set for a picnic.😎

Wish you all a very happy Sunday.⭐️

Samarth neither did I like her much .KD , I mean . She too was thrashing 'the immigrant experience' ...................the only difference between her and Lahiri was that Lahiri 's angle was psychological , whereas KD has done intense research and highlighted the practical differences too . [ The plight of the illegal immigrant INdians who work in Indian hotels as chefs or assistants of those chefs or waiters . The immigrant experience is the in thing nowadays with commitees ]

I read KD first with prejudice , saying to myself , She must have got the Booker bcoz she was after all , Anita Desai's daughter , and we all know that Anita was nominated many times ..5 i think , for the booker and was a Booker commitee favorite . The co incidence was too much for me to ignore . But as I read the book , although the subject disinterested me , I found that she could indeed write and that with her creative writing degree she had honed her skills to perfection . In a sense the effort was studied and focussed , in a sense , the experience was genuine . And what happened was the genuine experience ultimately prevailed , it overshadowed her studied skills and made the book a real read . By the time I finished the book , I agreed that she was Booker material , but I still feel that the Booker comittee's fondness for ANita was also a big factor for her getting that award .

No-no Koolsadhu, you are misreading me. I did not like the 'Inharretance…', in spite of its flashes of linguistic brilliance, not because of Judge's vilification, but rather because of over all bleakness, melancholy and a sense of ambiguousness pervading entire narrative right up to the end. Too much realism is not for me. That Gujarati connection was a low sarcasm to 'support' my inability to like the novel for entirely different reasons. In fact her caricature of the judge was very good and I am sure she must have drawn from some personal connection as she is born to a Gujarati-Bengali Parentage. And there not only She is factually perfect but even brilliant at showing the suffering of his wife in flashbacks and some totally new facts about anglicized education of Gujarati students of that era , of which M.K.Gandhi was a part.