Amish Tripathi.

Instead of honestly and properly criticizing Izlam!c terrorism for what it is, Amish Tripathi attempted a third rated and cheap caricaturing in his novels. In one of them, he named a barbaric and Asuric tribe "Isla" and went on describing their terrors,

as if the readers and critics are so naive and dumb that they won't get the clue. In another, he depicted Shukracharya, a great Rishi and also the Asura Guru to be the guide of the followers of one "Ekam" cult.

The description of this cult is an obvious giveaway of what it hints at. Because of his laziness and lack of creativity to convey an idea properly, he didn't hesitate to paint the venerable Rishi Shukra as the equivalent of an Abrahamic prophet.

Such is his 'sensitivity' towards Hindu Dharma, its epics and Puranas.

In his latest nitwit moment, the same Amish calls Izlamic invasion as "Turkic invasion" towing the line of intellectuals and historians bent upon whitewashing the horrors of Islamic rule in India.

What a full circle he has come to. Amazing. Going by the initial takes on the book Suhel Dev, it appears to be a thorough 'secular' fiction, concocting Islamist apology inside while advertising itself to be a story of a Hindu warrior hero outside.

What baffles me is the way the likes of Indic Academy and Swarajya promote Amish Tripathi's books including this latest one.

Amish Tripathi is one degenerate writer whose singular influence on the youth of India is nothing but corrupt,

making them dumber and more superfluous than what most of them already are. There is not one Hindu Divinity, one Itihasa or Purana character that he has not deformed or distorted through his literary torture that otherwise goes by the name "mythology fiction".

Well, it is a free country, so we can at best tolerate Amish Tripathi also a writer. But what is really a sham is the way he is being hailed and celebrated, the main reason for his popularity being that he writes in English,

not in any Indian language, and so many teenagers and youngsters are already conditioned by heavy marketing to go for his books. This just shows how poor the overall literary sensibilities of Indian readers have become.

The apologists of Amish keep saying that though his books are flat and filled with Puranic distortions, they will "inspire" the youngsters to go seek the original epics and Puranas and study them in depth. This is total bunkum.

I know quite a few youngsters reading Amish books and none of them have shown any such interest so far, at least in my circles. Instead, they develop a flair to go in for more such crap from other authors.

The very idea of 'depth' must be an anathema to Amish readers, I suppose :) On the contrary, I have seen readers of Amar Chitra Katha comics truly getting inspired and going in for the detailed versions of the epics and Puranas.

"Har Har Mahadev - All of us are Mahadev" : this ultra dumb and linguistically faulty opening line was enough for my teenage daughter to reject Amish Tripathi when a friend of her showed a Shiva Trilogy book to her.

If this is what the author projects as one of his best lines, that is enough to gauge what he would write inside, that was her argument :)

Source : Jaatayu.
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