I felt a bit guilty earlier about commenting in a post on Chetan Bhagat's writing skills...Writing alone does not make a writer isnt it? I bought the Revolution 2020 book and read it fully, finished it just an hour ago...
Now i clearly understood that it is not the writing skills critics hate most about CB. I have come to the conclusion that CB does not have any clue on the subtleties of life....For example, when love comes, it does not allow a person to control his destiny...It will do whatever it likes and sweep the person off his feet....In this book however I was pained to read CB allow Gopal to TAKE DECISIONS ON LOVE for the benefit of the overall good of the nation!
By the way, love cleanses and also transforms...If Gopal's love for Arti is justified, the same love could have made him totally a clean, uncorrupt man...there is no justification of loss or love or transfer of love in this book.
Like a good investment banker Chetan Bhagat trades love, invests, transfers, gains rebate, sacrifices etc....
He goes about chapters like university course assignments...i enjoyed a parts of the novel but overall I hated to know about Chetan Bhagat's mind....he looked like a employee looking for a job salary raise to me...He used this book to hopefully get another movie maker come to him.
Writing friends, is noble and often sprouts out if the author is tremendously pained or joyed or transformed....V.S. Naipaul ended writing when he felt that he will not d
I felt a bit guilty earlier about commenting in a post on Chetan Bhagat's writing skills...Writing alone does not make a writer isnt it? I bought the Revolution 2020 book and read it fully, finished it just an hour ago...
Now i clearly understood that it is not the writing skills critics hate most about CB. I have come to the conclusion that CB does not have any clue on the subtleties of life....For example, when love comes, it does not allow a person to control his destiny...It will do whatever it likes and sweep the person off his feet....In this book however I was pained to read CB allow Gopal to TAKE DECISIONS ON LOVE for the benefit of the overall good of the nation!
By the way, love cleanses and also transforms...If Gopal's love for Arti is justified, the same love could have made him totally a clean, uncorrupt man...there is no justification of loss or love or transfer of love in this book.
Like a good investment banker Chetan Bhagat trades love, invests, transfers, gains rebate, sacrifices etc....
He goes about chapters like university course assignments...i enjoyed a parts of the novel but overall I hated to know about Chetan Bhagat's mind....he looked like a employee looking for a job salary raise to me...He used this book to hopefully get another movie maker come to him.
Writing friends, is noble and often sprouts out if the author is tremendously pained or joyed or transformed....V.S. Naipaul ended writing when he felt that he will not d
Re: Chetan
by lakshmana murthy on Feb 21, 2012 08:53 AM
I read the book. It made me laugh and cry (I could relate to it as some of the events were similar to what happened in my life). I guess he can connect to a small, but rapidly growing, section of the society. Love or hate him, but people are at least reading his books... making him richer :)
Re: Chetan
by Jagadeesh Balakrishnan on Sep 28, 2012 11:16 AM
Hi Guys,
I felt a bit guilty earlier about commenting in a post on Chetan Bhagat's writing skills...Writing alone does not make a writer isnt it? I bought the Revolution 2020 book and read it fully, finished it just an hour ago...
Now i clearly understood that it is not the writing skills critics hate most about CB. I have come to the conclusion that CB does not have any clue on the subtleties of life....For example, when love comes, it does not allow a person to control his destiny...It will do whatever it likes and sweep the person off his feet....In this book however I was pained to read CB allow Gopal to TAKE DECISIONS ON LOVE for the benefit of the overall good of the nation!
By the way, love cleanses and also transforms...If Gopal's love for Arti is justified, the same love could have made him totally a clean, uncorrupt man...there is no justification of loss or love or transfer of love in this book.
Like a good investment banker Chetan Bhagat trades love, invests, transfers, gains rebate, sacrifices etc....
He goes about chapters like university course assignments...i enjoyed a parts of the novel but overall I hated to know about Chetan Bhagat's mind....he looked like a employee looking for a job salary raise to me...He used this book to hopefully get another movie maker come to him.
Writing friends, is noble and often sprouts out if the author is tremendously pained or joyed or transformed....V.S. Naipaul ended writing when he felt that he will not d
His success shows the sorry state of affairs in India. People somehow associate reading with "English"..and hence consider reading or "seen to be reading" one to be a kind of gatepass to what they assume as " upper class"..! Else, why cant they think of reading a regional author..?? There are wide variety of writings, ranging from those high literary value stuff to crappy things like those of Bhagat's, still you dont see them buying those books. Thats the kind of infeirorty complex the Brits have instilled in Indians abt their own languages. And clever ppl like Chetan make use of this and mint money writing crap - in English! And the funny thing is that vast majority of his "customers" only buy his books to to be seen reading an English book, like typically one sees in trains..!! I pity those regional authors who get nothing just becasue they write in Indian languages, though some of them write better than the Naipauls and Pamukhs and many of them can write "better cra-p-py" stuff than Bhaghat as well!
