Dear Jeyamohan,
You continue to speak and write regularly through this website. Many people who come to you through these talks may never encounter your books. They may form an impression of you based solely on your speeches, without truly knowing your intellectual world. Have you considered this possibility?
In your talks, you usually offer only introductions to various social issues and philosophical questions. Unless people read your books, they cannot fully understand your ideas. Isn’t there a risk that they may never realize this?
— Robert Singh
Dear Robert,
That is true. But what can we do about it in this century?
Today, many people do no more than look at a book’s cover. At best, they read the blurb on the back. They come to know an author through isolated quotations taken out of context. More than anything else, many people know me only through negative comments, criticisms, and mockery written about me by others.
As a result, they may carry an incomplete, mistaken, or even hostile image of who I am. The only thing I can hope for is that at least some of them will eventually pick up one of my books, read it, and come to know me more completely.
— Jeyamohan
