A Bad Reviewer

The review of ‘Hostel Room 131’ (R. Raj Rao, Penguin) in Hindustan Times September 25, 2010, by Ashok Row Kavi is bitterly insensitive and savagely uncouth. The ending note of hitting the author with his own book is definitely neither a literary statement nor good humour but smacks of personal vengeance irrespective of the reviewer’s acquaintance with the author. Such unsympathetic reviewers should be barred from writing reviews and employed to write inflammatory political speeches