Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Book Review - Revolution 2020 by Chetan Bhagat.

Chetan Bhagat is the author of four bestselling novels - Five Point Someone(2004), One Night @ the Call Center (2005) , The 3 mistakes of My Life (2008) and 2 States: The Story Of My Marriage(2009)




                        Revolution 2020 
               Love. Corruption. Ambition.


Welcome to Revolution 2020. A story about childhood friends Gopal, Raghav and Aarti who struggle to find success, love and happiness in the divine city of Varanasi. In this novel of his, Chetan Bhagat narrates the life of Gopal, who falls into the unfair yet dominant and corrupt society of ours. It is a story about hopes and despair, hardwork and failure, dreams and ambitions, love and helplessness.


My Take : Chetan Bhagat's most admirable quality of writing is that a majority of the readers relate to some or the other part of his story. His work is irresistible. Another fabulous narration after the success of four books worldwide. Varanasi's beautiful description captivates the reader into natural divinity. 


Coming to the educational plot of Revolution 2020, any student would relate to the situations, the feelings and the hardships which the protagonists go through. Even I thought to myself that,"Hey, now thats my story!" The toil and hardwork a 'normal' student puts in to clear the so competetive Entrance Exams gets washed over due to minor negligence, or as they say, bad luck!


The Love Triangle of Gopal, Aarti and Raghav is fascinating too. Gopal gets the sympathies of the readers as even though he had loved Aarti more than anyone in his life, Aarti never loved him that way. 


When on one side, Gopals falls into the rattrap of our country's corruption, Raghav is the one who fights back against it.  He wants a Revolution to start in our country by 2020. The book shows us the serious problems faced by the educational system in India.


Aarti : The female protagonist. She is beautiful and charming. Gopal seems to love her since a long time, he thought they should be more than friends but Aarti is drawn towards Raghav.


Gopal is shown to be a man with so many failures in life. In his educational affairs, in his love affairs, in his fulfilling his Baba's expectations... He is lonely. Which helplessly draws him to get corrupt. He could in no chance take a failure again.


Revolution 2020 is a nice book i must say. Though, the book is slightly below of what I expected of Chetan Bhagat. It has serious issues :  parental, and educational. Its a must read as its good how u feel related to a book.

Friday, 9 December 2011

The Way It Is.


If you're taking me to the west, I like the west..
If you're walking with me in the east, I like the east..
Its no more about where am I
Its about how am I when you're there..

I want no more, because certainly I can't be any happy than this..
I hope the time stays, for I can feel no better than this..

I like the way it is..
I love the way it is..
  
:)

The Pathway

Fog and dark clouds were all what I could see,
All what I could hear was rustling of the leaves
One step ahead that path meant never turning back
My loving pictures I had left back in the rack.
I take steps ahead that way
The harsh wind striking my face
Everything around me seemed more and more gloomy
One ray of light was all that I searched.
I hear something abrupt, I hear footsteps
My heartbeat knew leaps
Hope in me started growing
My steps ahead that I took were less careful
No more fear I could feel in my handful
The steps I could hear seemed moving away from me
I felt helpless, I felt reaching, but all I could see was a night, all Foggy.
The winds went against me
The leaves and the stones blocked my way
But i was not going to stop
It was a lone hope I could see going away.
I could see nothing but I was in a search
May be that it could lend me a hand I could hold while dearth
I badly needed to reach the vanishing footsteps
It was either going to be the water fore me, or the ashes.
The storm grew feirce
The dew started falling
The voice I had heard was almost extinct
I felt depressed, I felt alone
It was nothing different from what I felt before
I wish the small hope hadn't crept into me
I felt like losing something I never had in me

I stopped in the middle of the pathway
I felt weak in my knees
Everything around me had turned darker
If at all anything new I beared
Was a head bent down and a few flowing tears..