Review: Noteworthy Account Drowned in Grammatical Issues
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 25, 2013
A Responsible Confession - Who was behind the Delhi gang rape gives the accounting of a 23 year old woman brutally raped and beaten in Delhi, India. The act was gruesome and senseless. Her body was mangled during the attack, so much so that she died from her injuries a few days later. Pratap discusses the culpability of both the active and "inactive" participants, including, he asserts himself.Unfortunately this short essay is riddled with grammatical issues. Pratap has a very good vocabulary, but his command of the English language has left this worthy telling of this tragedy lost. From the opening words, I could here the writer's "accent," he misquotes famous quotes, often uses sentences that span in excess of one hundred twenty words (I counted on sentence that was one hundred and sixty words long). Writing in these sentences such things as "I bet the answer which would not be legal but legitimate will not be given by anybody, and if you don't believe me, you ask any person whom do you do you wish to prior to have any further readings, now leaving up to the question to be discussed after discussing the first and foremost thing . . ." Whatever that means. The essay is full of such sentences. Then, there was one paragraph that ran two pages long (albeit it was an eBook page).The whole idea of writing this I think, was to convey to the reader the atrocities that are continuing in a supposedly moral, democratic society. A society that still sticks to arcane laws, reasoning and actions. But how can you make a reader understand that when he/she can't understand the words written to explain it.This poorly written essay should be edited so that readers can learn of and from the Delhi gang rape. If not for the important story behind this essay, I would have given this a one star.I was solicited to write a review for this book.