Mukesh Eswaran

RE: My Chapter 1 on your web site‏
From: Venugopal Kaikulath (venu1005@hotmail.com)
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 1:49:16 PM
To: mukesh_eswaran@hotmail.com

Dear Mr. Mukesh Eswaran,

The moment I got your e-mail I deleted what I had copied and pasted of your novel 'The Sublime Homecoming' on my blog. I saw a review of your novel on, I think, NDTV site and I copied it and pasted on my blog 'Sounds of Silence', where I paste all texts that I have liked and would want to do an in-depth reading later on. No harm was meant. I am honoured, anyway, to have got an e-mail from a distinguished writer like you. Needless to say, I shall keep track of your writings now as from a person whom I 'know', even if it was in the background of a suit you almost slapped on me! Incidentally, my view on 'Intellectual Property Rights' is that it is drawn up for creative people to exploit their creation whereas all knowledge ought to be broadcast and available freely. Only then would there be, for example, writers who write for the love of writing and not with a view to make money out of their writing, which attitude is the cause of our culture having become so materialistic. On the other hand, I may be naive because it appears that in today’s world it would seem that unless you have money you cannot continue to be creative. Here again, it is a lack of character even in the best of us that has made such a situation come to a pass. Just some thoughts. Thanks for inspiring these, Mukeshji.

Regards

K.Venugopal

Mumbai

>From: "Mukesh Eswaran" ">mukesh_eswaran@hotmail.com>

To: venu1005@hotmail.com>

Subject: My Chapter 1 on your web site>

Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:40:04 -0800>>

Dear Mr. Venu:> >I was surprised to find the first chapter of my novel, The Sublime >Homecoming, on your web site. I did not authorize this and it is a >violation of my intellectual property. Please remove it and all reference >to my novel from your web site.

Thank you.> >

Mukesh Eswaran