I did not get to realise until later when everything was ready to be published.
David Godwin really knew how to protect his author more than having faith and trust. I was fortunate to find a literary agent who nurtured my work and showed utmost care carrying it. How much of a struggle then was it for you to publish Narcopolis? It was not a huge struggle for me even though there were rejections from Indian authors. A reviewer should be spending more than a few days over the book and be complete with the homework before validating sweeping opinions. Reviewers practically do not read the entire book they skim through the Prologue perhaps and end up delivering a review the author does not deserve. I myself have been into reviewing Indian authors and my experience tells me that a literary piece of work, when on the table for reviewing is not spent adequate time on. I remember a magazine that carried a review of my book and had only this to say that ‘it is nothing more than a piece of performance poetry.’ Now, the reviewer must have heard from somewhere that I am a performer poet and summarised the book in those terms. The disadvantage of being an Indian author is this that opinions are too critical and more often than not ill-informed. While Indian reviewers seemed unhappy, something really opposite happened in other countries where the book was appreciated and recommended. Yes, the book received uniformly negative reviews in India barring a few critics who had something good to say about the novel.
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