Amar Vyas, I agree with you on most criteria, but I feel amused at this one. True, Bangalis have a flair for writing, but they write mostly poems, and there are thousands of poets here in Bengal — one in every middle class educated household, roughly.

By the way I don’t meet any of these criteria, but I’m going to get published this winter (it’s a literary novel called SHADOWLAND).

Admittedly, I’m a Bengali. But does it really count in this business?