SIpra's Diary: "BEST SELLING. LITERATURE" .

                                       BEST  SELLING LITERATURE !

 In the library I see lot of books  marked with "best-selling" award.

I often think what's the criteria of  judging as' Best' to be awarded!.......

I don't  hold/agree that  special feeling  with  'many' of them.  

......Is it theme? language? reader's satisfaction?... or.......?

 

When I was sent first time as jaudge in the inter district school contest of recitation in India, I needed to  learn  and prepare myself to be judge.

  There were total 6-8 specially qualified  persons selected as judges. Each judge was given a paper-sheet  marked with separate column  for marking : i.g. Formalities/ time  /voice/ body-language/ poem/ intonation etc.  We gave marks with individual prudence in each column. At the end those papers were collected from the judges by chief   judge . Rank holders  were decided and awarded on the basis of calculating of  average marks given by the  selected judges.

     I don't know exactly the   system of America. But  still I have high opinion of this country which I wish to hold  on.

...Socrates once  commented that  in coming future wise would  hold their tongue to remain silent , so that  the ignorant don't feel inferior or insulted.

  Has  that  future mentioned by Socrates approached  now ?....

In the marketing business books are of course commercial product.But there must be specific criteria   to distinguish any "Creative art " from other commercial commodity product.   Creative art should never be  democratized.  

Per millennium how many Socrates, Plato. Aristotle, Leonardo,

 Darwin, Galileo or Newton  or Shakespeare  were  born  compared  to  bunch of Phds , even   Noble Awardees?

           

  I read the novel "Good Earth" of Pearl Buck  at the age of early twenty, almost  in my previous birth from  now.It was mini novel. I was   impressed so vividly  by the  very first chapter of  description  of   preparing tea , that almost every morning  I visualize, (not only remember) :  how the tea-leaves unfurl in the boiling water of saucepan,    and spread  around  to  hide  /cover   water under the leaves ;the steam with aroma carried by air conveyed the message  of warm hospitality  to the other room where the old father-in-law with his friends were  chatting!

                       This is what  literature means! ...........

Which has the intrinsic power to  flow with the blood of the reader to mesmerize the mind!...Perhaps, since then I relish my regular  morning tea  from the memory of "GOOD  EARTH".

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