RE: Who's a Poet?

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Sri Jampala wrote:

>	Speaking for myself, I do not believe that we have reached the end
>of culinary creativity and believe that there are a lot more new dishes
>and recipes waiting to be discovered. 

Sri Ramakrishna's "chilEbi" just made me laugh. I know more 
culinary discoveries are yet to come. But the analogy was to 
disobeying the rules of grammar. This may be a more serious 
stuff (than chandas) as you cannot deliberately ignore the 
very basics of grammar.


>	In light of Sri Rao's earlier comments in this post about need for
>sensitivity to different points of view, I am puzzled by his suggestion
>that some (or at elast one) question should not have been asked. I suppose
>that this openness to differences of opinion has some limits. May I
>wonder what they are?

Did you mean to say "his openness"? Anyway, this has nothing
to do with differences of opinion. The question should not be 
asked because the popularity of a work cannot be the 
only yardstick of its quality. If that yardstick is used, that can 
disqualify a lot of good stuff in this world. If something is not
liked by everybody today, there may be several reasons for 
it. But should we use that argument to attack and discredit
a literary form?


If it is not viable today, it maybe tomorrow. It may not be. Should we 
be very happy about it or sorry about it? There are people today who 
are writing it, reading it and enjoying it. Why should anybody have 
a problem with it?


Regards,

Sridhara Rao

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