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I just spoke on the phone to the man at Ajit Jalandhar who reviewed my book Bharind and to another guy in same profession called Binder Bajwa. Below is what they had to say summarised
1) My writing has a new Uddam in it and I can write and must not give up. Binder says I have potential of being a great writer.
2) There are still millions of language errors in Bharind and it should have been the publisher who fixed them.
3) All publioshers in India are not publishers but printers who only want our money, They do not distribute or display books ever.
4) I should not be wasting my money having my books published, Punjabis dont read unless it is in an affordable newspaper. Point was mad how in Chales Dickens time , he and others also first established themselves in magazines and papers, and later when famous only then stories were made in to books. I have been told that even the most famous Punjabi writers can't get their books sold and have to try and sell themselves or give them away
5) I must get someone who really knows Punjabi to check my work first to rid it off Punjabi mistakes.
6) I must as I am new only send my work chapter by chapter to websites and smaller newspapers to serialise. Bigger ones will ignore.
7) I must not pay to have book published, as I will never sell books, but see it as sewa, a pass time and send to recommended places. Then maybe years later, if people like my work should I have published as a book.
8) I must not give up sewa of Punjabi and writing in Punjabi, but again must not see it as an income earner.
Based on above I am angry still about Bharind and that if it is full of so many errors ( you have copies, what do you say?) why did they publish without fixing. But I am now going to carry on with writing O. If someone can just check each chapter before I submit, that would be great.
Sorry but I am sure you can understand why I went mad.
9) I must never contact that publisher again. Just try and sell the copies I have in Ludhiana myself.
Roop
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