AS I WRITE, I TOUCH, I FEEL, I SMELL, I DEVOUR, I GET INTIMATE WID THE BLUE & BROWN COVER, THE PAGES OF THE 'ORIGINAL' SHANTARAM..... D PIRATED DIDN'T SMELL ALL THAT GOOD!!....... FOOD, FRIENDS, ONLINE CHATTIN, ORKUTTING, CELL FONES...... ALL SHALL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE 'ORIGINAL' SHANTARAM........ BLESSED BE THE IMMORTAL SOUL OF THY NOBLE MORTAL WHO HAD THE NOBLE THOUGHT OF GIFTING ME THE NOBLE BOOK OF A NOBLE WRITER....... WITHIN 24 BLESSED HOURS, THIS MORTAL (I MEAN 'ME) HAS REACHED THE HIGHS OF DIVINITY, OF SANCTITY ONLY BY TOUCHING THE BOOK.......... THOUGH THE PIRATED 1 WASN'T ALL THAT BAD, THE ORIGINAL SHALL ALWAYS REMAIN THE ORIGINAL....... DEEP 4M MY HEART, A PROFOUND THOUGHT EMERGES WHICH GOES LIKE - "REMEMBA OH BLESSED GREGORY ROBERTS, THAT NEVA WAS IT KNOWN, THAT ANY1 HU READ SHANTARAM, IMPLORED ITS COMPANY TO FIGHT BOREDOM OR SOUGHT YOUR INTERCESSION 4 SOME QUALITY WRITING, WAS LEFT UNSATISFIED...... INSPIRED WITH THIS CONFIDENCE, I FLY UNTO U, OH WRITER OF WRITERS, MY IDOL...... TO YOU COME, BEFORE YOU STAND, SINFUL AND SORROWFUL FOR BUYING THE PIRATED SHANTARAM........ OH WRITER OF THE WORD INCARTE, DESPISE NOT MY TRUST, BUT IN YOUR MERCY, COME OUT WITH ANOTHER SHANTARAM........ OUR FATHER, HU ART IN AUSTRALIA, HALLOWED BE THY NAME....... THY PUBLICATION COME, THY WORK BE READ, IN INDIA, AS IN D WORLD....... GIVE US THIS DAY YOUR SHANTARAM, AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO BUY THE PIRATED 1........ LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION TO BUY D PIRATED 1'S, BUT DELIVER US FROM THE EVIL OF INDULGING IN SUCH AN ACT."
PS: The above piece of HIGHLY CREATIVE & IMAGINATIVE writing(wilful sarcasm) was an earnest attempt 2 appease the SHANTALOG (synonym 4 all dose hu read SHANTARAM accordin 2 SHANTABAI aka Prerna)