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While Dasgupta admitted that he doesn’t read reviews of his work because reviewers are mostly academics, Jensen said, “I personally don’t have respect for critics; but criticism is a dirty job and someone has to do it.”

Hensher, whose witty one-liners kept the audiences in good humour throughout the 1-hour session, said he likes the reviews which get the characters’ names correct.

When moderator Bhabha reminded the novelists on the dais that public needs reviews for getting ‘an introduction to the subject’, Jensen seconded his opinion saying, “Criticism and literature are part of the same dialogue. But criticism should be a good argumentative piece.”

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