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Beyond Harry Potter

Sir, — This refers to the editorial, "Beyond Harry Potter" (Dec. 30, 2004). J.K. Rowling's phenomenal rise as a best-selling fiction writer is amazing. The rise of the esoteric in the entertainment media indicates the emergence of a new form of Gothic fiction, where magic science and high-tech devices produce what we want to read or see.

The Rowling phenomenon over which the editorial goes gaga occurred in old Sanskrit and Pali literature too — Panchatantra and Jataka Tales — and in Persian and Urdu literature in the form of Hatim Tai, Alif Laila and Sindbad Stories. I wish the editorial had projected a proper theoretical perspective rather than eulogising the West.

Sharad Rajimwale,
Jodhpur, Rajasthan

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