Got Kissed.....Got Wild....Got Killed

Before we could get a glimpse of the work of India’s latest offering to the world, she gets tarnished and the work destroyed. It would be interesting to check out what’s going on in Kaaya’s mind …. like Cinderella, where life splashed her with all goodies of the world for a night, only to strip her to the minimal next morning. Perfect rags--riches-–rags story added with a great emotional turmoil, which can’t be gauged. She could be left poorer than the poorest soul emotionally unless she manages herself well…… Guess she can actually start writing her comeback second book about her own self, which surely is a great script. :)

If you get an eye on the phrases that are supposedly “lifted” from other authors, you will start wondering about all the fuss that’s created, those phrases seem so harmless, they could occur to anyone, like a phrase “I LOVE YOU” does not have a owner, these could have occurred to most of us at some point of time. I feel they are more of a inspirational writing for better expression of thought than copying the thought itself….. at least, the book’s not a copier machine output and those forty copied phrases they talk about is actually spread across the book for anyone to actually take notice of them.

Well we all have grown up reading/being influenced by a lot of great stuff and obviously our own thoughts are more or less a collective mixture of them added with a dash of spice which our own individuality and experience oozes. I think every act we do is a copy from something, from brushing teeth to driving to what ever.... the fact that we buy a book is because its got something new which the authors own imagination gives and I guess Kaavya should be given at least the credit that she wouldn’t flick a Shakespeare’s classic, changed names here n there and put her name on it ….. right

Wonder how the usage of those phrases alone could be a determining factor of sales or popularity if any. The ugly head of capitalism pops up in publishing, where the driving force of a book release is more a money matter that even dictates the number of pages, and the permissible content of a book than the thoughts that they convey. Well its not that I have read Kaavya’s book and impressed by its “thought provoking” material nor the fact that I have been captivated by her beauty and the Harvard status is in anyway influencing me in taking a stand for her sake. Its jus that the role that money plays in the whole set up pisses me off…….. Jus like Meg Ryan’s sweet little book place was eaten away by Tom Hanks corporate swindler.And for all the publishers and fellow authors who think they are offended by such “copies” they have the law to sanction it.

Capitalism ……….. something is wrong somewhere …. Jus like anything else…

If such inspired writing amount to “stealing” or the other royalty issue, then Ford should have been the only car manufacturer in the world and every cell phone sold should increase the pockets of Alexander Grambell’s great grand children in the name of royalty. Or every love story that’s written amounts to plagiarism of Romeo Juliet. And the British Queen should get a dime for every English word uttered.

Hey if anyone of you is fortunate to lay hands on opel …. Please pass her on ……

to get KISSED ……… and get WILD……