Supriya Nair wrote, [on 11/13/2009 2:51 PM]: > "Penguin Books India has sold an impressive number of copies -- as many as > 50,000 of *Atlas Shrugged* and *The Fountainhead* each since 2005, a number > comparable to sales there by global best-seller John Grisham." > > http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/10/19/howard_roark_in_new_delhi > > Puzzling that no one wants to start a debate on how John Grisham's notions > of current affairs are fundamental to our worldview.
Reminds me of a great line I saw on another list, re: Arundhati Roy. <q> As Navdeep Suri, then India's spokesman in Britain, put it, when Tony Juniper of Friends of the Earth cited her, in arguing with him about India's development model, when he said that a famous Indian author and why doesn't India listen to her, Suri said this: "Yes, we are very proud of Ms Roy; she is a famous writer of fiction." </q> And now, having derived an equivalence relation between Rand and Roy, I will retire behind a force field to observe the resulting matter-antimatter explosion. :) Udhay, happy to troll both sides of *this* particular debate. -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
