of playing (very very gainfully) to the Indian middle class gallery. He uses his writing to echo what the 'literate but having a half-baked education' middle class in this country would like to hear. He keeps talking about himself and his experiences and pontificates about things that he knows are considered as 'values' by his readers.
His adoring audience derives vicarious pleasure when he expresses his laboured rage at the state of affairs in the country. It adores him for prescribing quick-fix solutions for many ills that the middle class considers as the nation's chief troubles.
But what the middle class perhaps likes him best for is his silence on several endemic and deeper problems that beset the country - and which the middle class considers as others' problems!
Doubtless, there are several writers who write for such a constituency. But it is Mr. Bhagat who is the current success in this segment.
Re: Chetan Bhagat paid rediff
by pooja wadhwani on Dec 29, 2012 04:19 PM
CHETAN BHAGAT IS SURENDAR MOHAN PATHAK OF MODERN AGE NOT CHARLES DICKENS,,,HE IS JUST UPGRADED VERSION OF CHEAP NOVEL WRITERS LIKE PATHAK ,RANU ETC.
If Chetan Bhagat is India's Charles Dickens, Then Poonam Pandey's Twitter's is "Pride and Prejudice"..she is India's Jane Austen... And I am William Shakespeare...
Re: Ajit Balakrishnan brain has gone to nuts...
by Rani on Dec 29, 2012 10:51 AM
Chetan Bhagat can be India's Charles Dickens, Poonam Pandey can be India's Jane Austen... but you William Shakespeare??????????...What have you done in life????? just comment negatively about pe0ple???thats all????Loser!
Alcohol causes liver cancer. In Mr Balakrishnan's case, it has caused early dementia and state of confusion. He probably does not know what he is licking! Quit alcohol for a while, Mr Balakrishnan. Once you are sober, please read what you have written and write a disclaimer later. Blame it only on booze and not your IQ. Hope Mr CB understands the fallacy of situation. If he does not, he would join the vertigo club and can have a free fall anytime. Any other nominations for joke of 2012?
Can anyone really live in one wedding dress for years with a decaying cake still in the room? (Why is the cake in her dressing room anyway? Cakes generally arrive in the reception room... but ok she probably had it brought there).
No sunlight one dress decaying cake cobwebs in room insects etc = certain disease for everyone in the house.
I like Chetan Bhagat and have read all of his Novels. i am not a diehard fan of his writing but I like his clear thoughts, strange plots, new ideas and fluency in his writing in simple English.. But what is more appealing is his firm stand against corruption and boldness against Politicos!! He doesn't shy away from attacking corrupt decaying system.. But still, No offence meant. I don't think it is fair to compare Chetan Bhagat with Dickens!
