Before i start my first blog here, it is fitting that i do give a small teeny weeny little prologue, atleast to be true to my blog title.. My first blog is about one of my fav authors. I was browsing through that ocean of optical fibres and communication channels, or the internet as it is known to us, on one of those many jobless days when i came across this particular review and the moment i read it, i thought i must blog abt this...i happened to have a newly created account in blogspot and so here it goes...

No "Clowning" affair...

A writer’s brilliance, without saying, goes in his ability to arouse the reader’s curiosity. Each page should tell you "hold on, there's more". The one person who has somehow unceasingly never failed to invoke my interest with his narrative skills is Shashi Tharoor, be it his books or his reviews. His non-fiction seems to have a created a deeper impression. Some of his fiction works, Riot for instance, doesnot have an out of the way plot, but as I said before he has this knack of just letting you flow along with the book. Sometimes that is the very reason why you do need a book, to just transport you, for a moment into that place, that incident, in an otherwise prosaic day.

The latest work or rather article of his that I have come across is his review on “Shalimar the Clown”. It would be an understatement to say that Tharoor is pro-rushdie. His revere for Rushdie is clearly transparent whenever he mentions the “Booker of all Bookers” winner, the "fatwa"ed writer. And it is pretty much inescapable in this review as well. To add to the fact that this is the first favourable review of the latest edition from Rushdie’s pen. Tharoor has successfully managed to outline the better angles of the book- "Shalimar is a novel of mourning, not least for the loss of the Kashmiriyat (Kashmiriness), which Rushdie so lovingly evokes in his portrait of idyllic village life..