What young India wants? Not a ‘revolution 2020’. Young India is bored of politics. Young India wants to read how ‘one night at a call center’ would be. Young India is more interested in listening to a ‘five point someone’ who has willingly committed ‘three mistakes of his life’ by boiling his autobiography in the soup of imagination and smearing it with salt and pepper till it’s completely hot. Yes, he is Chetan Bhagat, the author who has lived only in ‘2 states’ for 30 years and has sold more copies than their entire population would buy. Why him? Well, many so called intellectuals around me, in various situations were found criticizing him, for the cheap text he sells full of vulgarity.
Graduating from India's top class institutions, this renowned author has dramatically snatched the Indian book market of teen fiction from the authors of ‘twilight’ and sci-fi of the west. With a deep insight of what the country is, how it behaves and reacts, and how its youth feel and think, he has pulled all the sensitive strings an Indian would otherwise fear to touch, with utmost ease. His business principles are nevertheless simple. Write what your reader wants to read and he will ask you to write more. Placing that aside, this Indian Sidney Sheldon is everyday found writing columns his target audience shall never care to read in newspapers his target audience shall never care to pay a penny for. He is well known by every convent schooled Indian teen, and is very much admired for his simple language, rather bilingual dialect, low priced small books, which one such teen would read at a stretch in a boring Indian train journey, where he shall much more be entertained by the fancies of this guy than watching, learning and observing from the variety of people around him. Thanks to the Indian system of schooling.
Back to our dear author, he can be appreciated for writing of creating a zero corruption utopia, a secularist country where a guy and a girl fall in love and marry despite from being cultures far apart as Madras and Delhi, and a college where the student shall be evaluated by his talent and nothing else. Yes, this guy fantasizes too much. Nevertheless, his appraisal shall not be complete without his recognition for pulling the best minds of India into the hobby/profession of reading English novels. His columns though often trolled by the ‘great’ journal writers, often remind young Indians that there is a page termed editorial in the newspaper too. However, he shall be taunted by a few of the intellects, for his usage of sexual fantasies and irregular story plots, for his biased single person male oriented writing style and for degrading the average quality of English fiction in the Indian bookstore. No doubt he was pointed during the anti-rape protests and education oriented discussions for his provoking works and untrue educational success stories, also thanks to his speeches at the centers of learning about a better nation.
I would like to remind the brainy people around that he has been an inspiration to a ton of budding writers around; he has laid the building stones of English reading in this younger generation very firmly, and shall be solely credited for all his work. I don't support him completely, because I shall never forget the deterioration of the language nor the quality of text a teenager shall be expected to read with the moderately high IQ he possesses. Above all, before you point a finger at him, remember you too were excited, dragged into and floated through his imagination someday, pondering over your chances to enjoy such a life, though later did you repent wasting a few of your precious hours which otherwise would have gone into sleeping, costing you the wisdom of knowing what young India wants, because when you read what he writes, I am pretty sure you will surely realize what young India wants.
Graduating from India's top class institutions, this renowned author has dramatically snatched the Indian book market of teen fiction from the authors of ‘twilight’ and sci-fi of the west. With a deep insight of what the country is, how it behaves and reacts, and how its youth feel and think, he has pulled all the sensitive strings an Indian would otherwise fear to touch, with utmost ease. His business principles are nevertheless simple. Write what your reader wants to read and he will ask you to write more. Placing that aside, this Indian Sidney Sheldon is everyday found writing columns his target audience shall never care to read in newspapers his target audience shall never care to pay a penny for. He is well known by every convent schooled Indian teen, and is very much admired for his simple language, rather bilingual dialect, low priced small books, which one such teen would read at a stretch in a boring Indian train journey, where he shall much more be entertained by the fancies of this guy than watching, learning and observing from the variety of people around him. Thanks to the Indian system of schooling.
Back to our dear author, he can be appreciated for writing of creating a zero corruption utopia, a secularist country where a guy and a girl fall in love and marry despite from being cultures far apart as Madras and Delhi, and a college where the student shall be evaluated by his talent and nothing else. Yes, this guy fantasizes too much. Nevertheless, his appraisal shall not be complete without his recognition for pulling the best minds of India into the hobby/profession of reading English novels. His columns though often trolled by the ‘great’ journal writers, often remind young Indians that there is a page termed editorial in the newspaper too. However, he shall be taunted by a few of the intellects, for his usage of sexual fantasies and irregular story plots, for his biased single person male oriented writing style and for degrading the average quality of English fiction in the Indian bookstore. No doubt he was pointed during the anti-rape protests and education oriented discussions for his provoking works and untrue educational success stories, also thanks to his speeches at the centers of learning about a better nation.
I would like to remind the brainy people around that he has been an inspiration to a ton of budding writers around; he has laid the building stones of English reading in this younger generation very firmly, and shall be solely credited for all his work. I don't support him completely, because I shall never forget the deterioration of the language nor the quality of text a teenager shall be expected to read with the moderately high IQ he possesses. Above all, before you point a finger at him, remember you too were excited, dragged into and floated through his imagination someday, pondering over your chances to enjoy such a life, though later did you repent wasting a few of your precious hours which otherwise would have gone into sleeping, costing you the wisdom of knowing what young India wants, because when you read what he writes, I am pretty sure you will surely realize what young India wants.