Comparing Shashi Tharoor and Salman Rushdie

Deepdowne compares the works of two authors: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel and observes

To create a piece of literature applying the techniques similar to that in the satanic verses, one needs great potential. Rushdie is literally playing with words, with his characters, places and chronology. He makes the most intricate and interestingly complicated jumble of these factors. He takes his protagonists and places and time frames to diverse levels. It is all not in a single plane. And that is his greatness as a writer, whereas shahshi tharoor’s story is too hopelessly linear for a novel of such a design to be a good one. moreover, rushdie’s novel had an aura of abstractness pervading the entire plot, adding further to the wonderfulness of the book, and making it a perfect piece of art, which tharoor’s work totally lacks in.