In an article discussing why a bandit in India was widely popular, Nan Fang Shuo argues that the man in the street will always harbor a certain amount of sympathy for such rebels, because stories of noble thieves in their mountain hideaways having it out with the soldiers of the regime can satisfy the people's desire to go against the system, a desire they are otherwise too timid to display.
南方朔在一篇論印度土匪之後芙蘭德薇為何贏得群眾愛戴的文章中表示，一般升斗小民對這種土匪多少有些同情或崇拜，因為由土匪浪跡江湖山林與官兵周旋的傳說裡，滿足了自己怯於背叛體制的抑鬱。