Today, my wife was talking about a historic story writer, not validating facts when writing the story. The story was basically talking about flora and fauna in a point of time in history, when that flora and fauna did not exist.
In today's world of the internet, it is so easy for any reader to validate these facts. And hence it becomes even more difficult for writers to write historical stories. I grew up reading stories written by Frederick Forsyth / Robin Cook / Michael Crichton. The amount of details on history they would write used to be amazing, it really was the amount of research that would have gone into making this story real. Why aren't stories written well I used to think.
Well the same applies to our newspapers, the Fourth Estate in India is nascent and I guess everybody wants to make their mark, the movie Phir Bhi Dil hai Hindustani, really captures the essense of this. Is this the reason that stories are being published instead of news reports. Will out Fourth Estate mature is the question that needs to be asked.
I just hope for you and me and our future generation, they come through
1 comment:
Sorry to say this, but, many of "our" writers today do not have "time" to check and cross check the facts that go into their work of fiction. "Fiction is a fiction" could be their argument, I guess.
Intriguing write up.
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