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Title: A publisher doesn't a writer make
Review: The critical reviewers are on target but unfortunately they don't dwell on the vast superficiality of the novel and the cut and paste, politically correct ramble that it is. I bought the book at a discount in a small town in the U.S. where I live. I was ecstatic that I could get the book so cheap, for I remember reading Prasannarajan's review in India Today, and I usually like what he says. And if I remember right, Prasannarajan speaks well of this meandering trickle of a terrible tale. I wish I had the patience to sit down and do a serious deconstruction of this "plotless plot" and "clueless narration" from a pretend writer who relies on a condensed version of the Gita, the first chapter of Radhakrishnan's tome on the Upanishads and whatever else he could lay his hands on to "learn" and "speak" about India. Dilettantism therefore is in powerful and peerless display.
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