Ramblings and Musings

As promised

Hi all you blog readers! It's been some time since I wrote a proper blog. So here I am, about to write at least a 1000 words this time.

My world is a lot different from most of you Americans, Europeans and Australians who dominate this English site! In India, we have no respect for Indian writers. I once asked the publisher who published my parenting book about whether he would like to at least take a look at my novel (The Great Downpour, see My Portfolio>My Books). He said flat out NO. He said people did not read Indian authors unless they were already well-known or they got their books published in the US. Can you imagine what we might all feel when we stand rejected even BEFORE we submit our work?

I am not disheartened, and I will continue to write fiction, but it looks like it is not going to be published soon - at least not in India!

My children are having their last one or two examinations on Monday and Tuesday. After this, they will vie with me for their time on the home computer. I may not then be able to do as much as I am able to do these days. My elder daughter has downloaded nearly 500 Hindi film songs on the comp and plays them in the free version of Real Player. She also loves to download wallpapers of movie stars, screensavers of them and so on and so forth. She is fourteen. My younger one will sit only occasionally on the computer, and mostly to play single-player games. She is going to be eleven in a month. So much difference between these two gems of mine!

I have halted my novel writing on first of April and am busy catching up with my other computer and wdc activities like reading, reviewing and so on.

In the meantime, another celebration is coming up in our family on the first of May.

That's all for now.

Taher