Reputations are fragile things meticulously built and fiercely guarded. That’s why a work of fiction that intentionally or unintentionally comes too close for comfort to real life immediately provokes outraged protests and threats of violence.

Persons and communities that feel their elusive second skin is being molested are quick to snatch a bed sheet and cover themselves with it, a look of horror and indignation on their faces.

The communist government of Kerala did it to Arundhati Roy, and now locals of Kalimpong are doing to Kiran Desai. It seems that book winner has a condescending attitude towards people of Nepalese Descent is historically inaccurate and paints the town of Kalimpong .

History has shown that such subtleties are in fact often lost in the world that is quicker to take offence. Satirika works have recast real people and events into fiction from the beginning of time.

Shakespeare infused historians with dramatical elements that completely changed them. When an ex-lover protested about the way she was portrayed in one of his novels.

Dh Lawrence shrugged it off by saying that it was unfortunately for her his book. Creative license is one of the rights enjoyed by fiction writers as well as artists not politicians or doctors they have no requirement to be sensitive.

Art is a point of perspective it is reality recast and dramatically through imagination and if it hurts one must simply pretend it is fiction which it is in any case.

However claim protests the protagonist of the novel . This shows that Indian writers are disintegrating due to non-justice showed by foreign countries.

Therefore writers should be judged on the basis of their talent or creation and not on from where do they belong.