It has been getting on my nerves for quite sometime now and i sincerely wanted to speak up----------- i find this HARRY POTTER MANIA really really too much to bear!
Was having a war of words with one of my seniors in college last night and it was all regarding this issue----- thats when i decided its high time i write------and what better day to write something on this issue than the day of the book release of [thankfully] the last one in the series!
i once bought a copy of one of the books in the HP series and frankly speaking could not go even half way----- i would like to quote one of my very dear friends here-----TORSA says, the books takes us to an alternative world which is nothing new------i add, its very true!This concept has been taken up by several authors time and again and trust me the Enid Blyton classiscs which we all used to read during early childhood are better than this!
I personally think HP without the broadcast media becomes one of the million fairytale kind of stories which did not quite receive media attention,but are at par with HP.More than the book, its the punctiliously media-crafted hype which surrounds this piece of literature,which i find simply disparaging! The media kind of projects HP as the most readable book in the present world scenario!
The above mentioned senior also pointed out HP as a "book of values"---------- exaggeration overcoming its bounds i suppose------the whole concept of this book is religiously borrowed from J.R.R. Tolkein's fictions.
I end it by saying-----------all u bengalis who still read "bangla boi"[and those who dont] try to quench your thirst by reading Sukumar Ray[u can even start reading regional folktales or even Thakumar Jhuli---i still enjoy reading them at this age] and not HP----------you will take pride in your own culture again.
