tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2261282820839735697.post4042956649935047395..comments2023-07-14T16:37:05.763+05:30Comments on When Romanticism Meets Pragmatism: What does India read?Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04576822154583724575noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2261282820839735697.post-55959184060496236162010-03-06T19:36:50.962+05:302010-03-06T19:36:50.962+05:30Outnumbered badly :). If CB does bring people towa...Outnumbered badly :). If CB does bring people towards reading more, and reading with discretion, amen to it!Jayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04576822154583724575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2261282820839735697.post-68884102337224020962010-03-06T18:25:29.754+05:302010-03-06T18:25:29.754+05:30I too agree with ashwin.. Once people get interest...I too agree with ashwin.. Once people get interest in reading, they move on to read better stuff.. and the books like those written by C.B keep attracting people towards reading..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2261282820839735697.post-58338456779172198202010-03-06T00:21:20.898+05:302010-03-06T00:21:20.898+05:30@Jaya
Ashwin has a point.
The likes of CB and th...@Jaya<br /><br />Ashwin has a point.<br /><br />The likes of CB and the rest have actually brought English literature to the mainstream reading public. For better or worse, is something we shouldn't judge, until reading tastes have matured.<br /><br />There is promise. And there is hope. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2261282820839735697.post-50135987461718905912010-03-05T18:59:48.994+05:302010-03-05T18:59:48.994+05:30Rindo: I haven't read that article yet; curiou...Rindo: I haven't read that article yet; curious to know why men are being kept out of all these 'surveys'. Women do think about a lot more than having an arm to hang on to.<br /><br />Yes, they are, apparently.<br /><br />Ashwin: Chetan Bhagat has undoubtedly brought a number of people closer to reading than they otherwise might have got, but unless he actually helps spawn off some healthier, more diversified writing, all the hype surrounding his books is unwarranted.Jayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04576822154583724575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2261282820839735697.post-20330353363501114272010-03-05T16:29:05.176+05:302010-03-05T16:29:05.176+05:30Jaya,
First off it seemed to me that the article ...Jaya,<br /><br />First off it seemed to me that the article was taking as given the niche, "englightened" segment of english language readers - no one's denying that within numbers they did and do continue to exist in India. <br /><br />Although I don't know about Mills and Boon, I don't see Chetan Bhagat as a bad thing at all - not only is he introducing new readers to english language writing, he's creating (or carrying the baton for) a genre of accessible indian english writing that -- if we give it time to develop -- will become something good. <br /><br />Indian English movies started the same way fifteen years ago, with amateurish first steps (remember Nagesh Kukunoor's Rockford?!). What those first steps allowed for was a genre to take root, and its only from those first steps that we have Anurag Kashyap, Konkona Sen and so on able to bring out decent work today.<br /><br />Ashwinashwinraghu001@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15798952090713772803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2261282820839735697.post-6866719495693227432010-03-05T00:30:38.602+05:302010-03-05T00:30:38.602+05:30What is more interesting is another Guardian artic...What is more interesting is another Guardian article linked to the one you're talking about.<br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/04/evolutionary-psychologists-romantic-fiction<br /><br />So women want a "royal, fit, rich and sexy bloke." And the researchers had to analyze 15,019 M&B/Harlequins to figure that out?!<br /><br />Psychologists are dumber than we give them credit for. :DRindohttp://rindojustrindo.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com