They have not been as generous in gifting him qualities that go towards making a good novelist. Apart from cooking up an unlikely plot around which he has woven his story, none of his characters come alive, they use the same sort of language (Shiv Kumar�s), their profiles are stereotyped and even his explicit descriptions of copulations are in turgid prose. He should stick to doing what he is best at � composing poetry and translating Urdu poetry into English.