Simplicity Rules?

Internet has made impossible things possible!

There were days when authors, directors were anonymous people or just a famous name.

Today everyone is a celebrity and that fact has made their accessibility to the fans much simpler!

I reckon this fact cause its almost unbelievable how easily I interact with one of my favorite author, Amish Tripathi, who has just shot up to glory as his first book is a bestseller and he has people anxious waiting for the sequel. All thanks to Twitter.

This morning I read a note by him on his FB page about how he chose the color of his book covers. The explanation was partially scientific and partially spiritual. Reading that made me realize that writing in itself reaches high standards if its practised by highly intellectual person.

Something I feel lacking in the writing of the likes of Chetan Bhagat. Not that they are any less of a work. Just that they are simplistic in nature. And such works are much required in the market. There is no doubt if it hadn't been for Chetan Bhagat many people in their life would have lived life without reading a single book/novel in their life!

To each his own!

I might not enjoy Chetan Bhagat's book but I can not ignore the fact that simplicity and generic nature of his novels is what makes him much more popular than any Booker or Pulitzer award winning author (at least in India).

The social circle of a person is inversely proportionate to the IQ level of the person in his lifetime. Yes I say in his lifetime. That is because many extraordinary talents do not see the light of fame in their mortal life.

We have way too many examples of geniuses, prodigies who were made a social outcast in their era but today are synonym for the era itself!

All this makes me think about the dynamics of fame. Some people are famous in their life and some are famous after life! Is it an unfair situation... or is it just a bad luck of society that they recognize some people only in their death?

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