Reviewer's rejoinder: Who will take responsibility?

ABSTRACT

The task of a book reviewer is to convey to readers the gist of the book and the reviewer’s educated feelings on its contents. Where the reviewer finds a discrepancy or observes representations that cause apprehension, duty demands that these be pointed out. This is the basis for my using quotations from Ms Sujatha Rao’s book and tagging them with statements based on my own understanding and experience