Lord who melted in an embrace
Writers have an agenda, who on earth would still be parroting the lines of Wordsworth even for poetry which he himself had contradicted. Modern writing and publishing should be more of “emotion recollected in tranquility” rather than “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”. The reader too can belong to multiple categories, as the world of “ideological” literature would want us to be – divided and agenda driven even as readers, not just as writers. No, this isn’t some inane and long drawn intro, this is my view of looking at certain books that I have been forced to read for the sake of controversies the books or the writers are involved in, that I have to choose whether I am a “lay” reader or an “ideological” reader. It is a divisive world, with those who chose the labels deliberately driving it to be so. When news which is supposed to “neutral” has by far turned agenda driven, responses in terms of independent bloggers, tweeples, facebookers all are obviously going to be agen...