WE ALSO UNDERSTAND LITERATURE Mr. KATJU.

AHMEDABAD MIRROR (pg18, 30JAN2012), PUNE MIRROR (pg20, 30JAN2012).

Mr. Katju’s views of Salman Rushdie and his readers seemed a bit lopsided as he was quick to notice that Indians have ‘colonial inferiority complex’ and any writer living abroad is regarded as great by us but he failed to notice that the west also suffers from the ‘superiority complex’. There is no accounting for taste and we aren’t disrespecting his views of Rushdie’s works but we wish he’d stopped at that and didn’t question readers understanding of English and literature. American’s and English’s dislike for Asians is not hidden and if they recognize the work by an Asian and felicitate him with the Booker prize then it’s enough food for thought for Mr. Katju but still if it doesn’t win him over and he continues to think that Midnight’s children isn’t a great work of literature then he should be informed that not once but twice this book of Rushdie’s has won ‘Best of Bookers’ prize. No doubt that Mr. Katju is a man of great stature but while terming Rushdie’s work as poor and substandard it seemed if he was trying to be economical with the truth or maybe he found it a psychological moment to garner some lime light.