Chetan Bhagat’s new book is a compelling read. You can classify it as an airport lounge read or an up market aunty read. Books need not be serious, it always need not change the world or the audience, but it could certainly do one thing, entertain the ones who chose to buy it. This book actually did. Rarely an Indian writer could make you laugh and I bet there were quite a few occasions were I broke into laughter and made the whole Barista gawk at me.
Having gone through a bit of the same myself, this rift between the clan’s (South and North Indians) portrayed in the book is extremely close to reality. I could add to some of these if Chetan might be interested in publishing a Sequel of the same. My Girlfriends family, accuse we south Indians of not washing hands after shitting, eating with bare hands and licking them from the elbow joints to the finger tips and last but not least making balls of rice and shooting at your own mouth !!!!!!!. My clan would say that Punjabi women are aggressive and would make me knead atta, will drink more than men at weddings and even beat up their husbands!!!!!.
We generalize a lot and Chetan has hit the nerve, though being of a same country we tend to kick each other based on color, traditions and the diversities within us. Good and bad are too subjective and comparisons often a futile exercise, if a life is what you are looking at then the only thing that would matter will be trust and understanding.
Two thumbs up for Chetan and the publishing house, the book is affordable and actually a good read, I could finish it off in a day’s time. Might be I would give a shot at his earlier books!!!!!
2 comments:
Thanks for that review. I enjoyed a few of his earlier books too. He's what I would call a 'masala' writer. Entertaining.
Am yet to read the book . . . Chetan bhagat's books have always been of those entertaining genre's . . . kinda stories tht u would directly relate to . . . His books are panned by critics . . . but are very popular among the masses. . rightly said in other review tht i read . . . he is a karan johar who makes movies which are panned by the critics but loved by the masses . . . .u cant expect him to become a satyajit ray or a Steven Spielberg.
Venky.
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