Chetan bhagat is definitly not Indias Charles Dickens...Charles Dickens is a legend a literary genius...rediff please dont insult Charles Dickens by comparing Chetan Bhagat to him....Chetan is a best selling author who writes stories which are an easy read and peppered with lots of masala which suits the Indian readers who are looking for a fast and light read....Chetans books are to put it simply more of a casual one night read
Hello Chetan Bhagat, I really want to interact to you.My sons are also passed out from better institutions you passed out,but your works appear third class,for graving money by greed misguiding people without telling innovating ideas,by adopting which,country is likely to be changed.If you are a crusader,and really intellect,you must have told so many ideas to adopt.By your biography,you are dependent on reverend Bhawiji,and you are trying beyond limits to impress
Hello Chetan Bhagat, I have recently read your So Called Novel,Revolution 2020,but same did not attract me.It may be good idea to expose Indian political and other systems at their shortcomings,but tell to me what innovative actions can be taken by you .It is easy to misguide by so called preaching,but very difficult to innovate.I find no innovation in your works,which without the same,become just foul means to earn money by and after fouling the motherland.As best from any IIM,it is great tragedy to seek to earn,by defaming same without strictly telling things which can alone improve.If you have no plan of action,which you cannot operationalise,or bring into action,you are worthless in trying to attract people by misnomer novels as you have casted to earn fame and money.
Re: Limit
by kunal tiwari on Dec 30, 2012 09:39 PM
agree..5 point someone was good but post that all his novels have been pathetic...but he is successful and cant take it away from him..
no doubt the article revives the brand. otherwise comparing the two is like comparing oranges with apples. any writer, to be comparable with the legendary Mr dickens would have to exude the same serene tone of compassion, wit and a haigh degree of socio-ethical understanding, which Mr Bhagat's writing has not expressed as on date. the only simile is success but that too is not comparable 'coz Charles Dickens is being read across the world for a better part of two centuries in unimaginable quantities whereas Mr Bhgat's success is mainly among a limited population of indian- english fiction- readers.
To compare Chetan Bhagat to the great man is an insult to Charles Dickens. Please do not make the mistake of thinking that Mr. Bhagat even comes anywhere close to the master storyteller. And do you have Mr. Bhagat's permission to print such nonsense?
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.
