A crying shame!

Merit is often ignored, bhai-bhatijavad prevails more often, if not as a matter of rule-CSA is no exception! Writers are a timid and eccentric class of people, who prefer to live in isolation in their own ivory towers! Some of them are self seekers and live in borrowed glory, at the cost of genuine and eminent writers like you. Others believe in self aggrandizement and leg pulling of the merit. Seeking a platform of unity among the pen pushers may hurt the ego of blue eyed boys, who have managed to climb the pedestal. I respect your feelings.

Regards

DR.R.Kumar drrkumar16@gmail.com via two emails dated 23 July and 24 July 2010.

I'm sorry to hear about this, Wadhera, but I am sure you have the strength and the courage not to feel low for long. You will get over this as you have over many other events. Chin up old chap!

Love

Bikash Bikash K Das

das.bikashkumar@gmail.com 25 July, 2010 Guwahati, Assam

Randeep,

Your poems are very nice. But do not get agitated if CSA has not included them in their anthology. There will always be another time, another place. You cannot demand these things by right or pick up a fight. Just relax. Maybe better things are in store for your poetry.

Best wishes,

Nirupama nirupama dutt nirudutt@gmail.com 23 July, 2010 Chandigarh

Dear Randeep,

This from one who has grieved many a time over rejection slips!  Please please do not let the ignorance - even callousness - of the mediocre hordes dishearten you! Ever. For their ignorance and callousness only speaks of intellects that are as rich in creative juices as the Atacama desert is in water. The hell with them...and from my own knowledge of the Assam Sahitya Academy may I add that these bodies are veritable breeding grounds of the said mediocrity. I just read a few of your poems. I am no poet, but I really like them; 'The Weaver' is really powerful in imagery. I love the lines: reveal fables from times etched on her face As for what the Academy actually published...I don't even want to read them.

 Hi Randeep! Is this the organisation that has Manju Jaidka and Nirupama? I was at a book launch where they were ruing the entry of very bad poems for their competition ! Jyotii Subramanian jyotii@hamsa-yoga.org Chandigarh Jul 27, 2010 at 4:27 PM

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