Friday 24 November 2017

Indian literature loosing it's edge?

Well I am not literature critic but a normal reader like crores others. During my trips to library I have observed that there are lot of books but when I have started to search for books by Indian authors of recent time the choice got narrowed. Further to this while searching for books in regional language in recent years was more difficult so my first question is that why current Indian authors write mainly in English only? One more thing happened at that time was while searching for different genre I was surprised to see our recent authors are just focused in one or two genres while many genres left untouched such as science fiction, child novel, war fantasies, travel diaries, thriller with some good taste, catchy humor all these were missing and ya nothing of that short you can find in regional languages. I believe that in this era of facebook posts , tweets and adaption of books to movie has become more important than  anything else. It's a serious question for our society because the society without fighters of pen is hollow one. At the same time it's duty of reader to motivate those who are trying something different. I feel that our education structure and our outlook towards writers of regional language must change. We praise a lot who writes in English but hardly even remember names of writers in local language. Now let us talk about different genres of literature and tell me friends how many books you found about science fiction? child stories? out of the box kind of thrillers? Either I am not aware of such recent books in Indian languages or such books really not published in recent times. As a reader I always desire to read something different and want good reading in all different genres. I am not criticizing writers of recent times, even I believe that they are really good but we need variety of topics as we are country of diversified society we need diversity in what we read. So I am waiting for a fresh science fiction story in Hindi, a path breaking thriller in Gujarati and such great works in other languages as well. Many of the friends I follow on social media are readers and bloggers so I really want their thoughts on this topic, let's wish that in near future we can see an Indian winning booker prize.