Vikram Seth is prodigious with words. He hasn't looked back since declaring his genius with "Golden Gate", a book that I read with utter fascination many years ago. Since then, I read "All you who sleep tonight" and "An Equal Music" - both books mesmerized me with their charm. Recently, an interview appeared of him in the Outlook magazine which has been the subject of much discussion on the internet. That is what set me off thinking about Seth's writing. That, and my recent re-reading of Rushdie's "Imaginary Homelands".
You see, the trouble with genius is that everyone starts to expect more from you. So with Seth, we try to look beyond his silver phrases and the veneer of urbane poetry and prose. And what you find, unfortunately is "drawing room twitter" and an unwillingness to engage with any issue - political, psychological or otherwise. Just a lot of sophisticated badinage!
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