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I've been perturbed by the way people are moving into anarchism as though they regale in it,and don't hesitate to turn it into a cult.They have turned so consciously selfish that nothing can draw them back into the larger perspectives of a social circle.If political parties in India are largely responsible for unleashing the potentail for destruction, it is again certain individuals who take it upon themselves the responsibility of misdirecting the social energies.Their sole aim is to garner a few votes, and this slowly lead to the playing up of divisive politics.A wedge has been drawn between the Hindus and Muslims, and the oteher lumpen elements in the society which freely operate in the social conglemoration.Add to it is the people's natural inclination towards vandalism that turns everything into pervasive chaotisation.The gen next is directionless,and may well end up in the cul de sac.This is where comes in the irrelevance of minuscule parties like MNS of Raj Thackeray whose party is vying for political space, and its chief is ever ready to cash on the lumpen mob which dances to his orchestrated tunes.There is no morality, no scruples what so ever for such individuals whose sole aim is to gain political prominence by force and coersion.

Review of Chetan Bhagat's novel, "Five Point Something".
Review Article: “Five Point Someone” by Chetan Bhagat.

(Reviewed by Dr Karanam R.Rao)

Chetan Bhagat is one of the youngish Indian-English writers who seems to have picked up some critical space with his book, “Five Point Someone” that has quite a few sequence of events and a few credible characters to give the book the semblance of a “story” .Or else, all his books to date, are merely in the genre of a reportage where nothing tangible happens .Both  of his books, “One Night@Call Center” and “Three Mistakes”, his recently published book are sleight as fictional narratives and generate no serious interest.If  Chetan Bhagat’s books sold well, it’s because of their instant appeal to the young readers who are carried away by the writer’s simplistic narrative style and technique. And the language used by the writer is fluent, colorful, and takes no involutions into cumulative and creative lingo to make so special. In“Five Point Someone”, Bhagat seeks to narrate the story of three of the best friends of IIT-Hari,Ryan and Alok- who re-create the whole conglomeration of of IITians whose rites de passage is the centrality of the book. The three of the characters are dissimilar in their outlook, and possess a personality befitting their rather whimsically predisposed qualities. Alok hails from a poor family where his father is an invalid, and his mother has to make do with whatever left of her meager earnings as a teacher. Whereas Ryan is wealthier, and more comfortably posited. Hari, who is from the middle class, and is also interestingly the narrative “voice”; and it’s through his sieve of memory partly and interaction with his active friends in a chain of events that the whole story gets unwound. Bhagat warns at the beginning of his novel: “Before I really begin the book, let me first tell you what this book is not. It’s not a guide on how to live through college. On the contrary, it is probably an example of how screwed up your college years can get if you don’t think straight.(p.1).” The IITians have to do much more than what their compatriots in other disciplines. They will have to slog it out, if only they would like to stand in the cut-throat competition that makes the whole academic atmosphere in the IIT surcharged. The youngsters have to learn quite a few things-respect the teachers, listen to their admirations and admonitions, and yet carve for themselves “a livable space” in the totally different area where there is neither respite nor comfort for those who really take the degree from the IIT as serious academic discipline. It’s a passport to a roseate life. Alok, Ryan and Hari fumble in their own way to keep abreast with the academics. Alok is needlessly pestered by the compulsions of his home, and always dotes on his father and yet- to- be married sister, while Ryan makes a luxury of everything, and cares a hoot for studies. Hari is embroiled in love with Neha, the daughterof Prof Cherian of the Mechanical Engineering Dept, and it’s this love-story that really infuses momentum into the story. All three friends have messed up with their grades, and make them good they resort to “operation pendulum” by which they seek to steal the question papers. In this act, they were caught and punished, and had to lose a semester. But with the help of Prof.Veera they successfully complete a research project, and also manage to get jobs in MNC’s with the exception of Ryan who becomes a research assistant to work on his pet research project which was later to be funded by his father. The story ends with a serene note-“All’s well that ends well.” But it’s the love story of Neha and Hari that forms the pivot of the whole story as it becomes heavily loaded with human interest.Hari sneaks into her room when her dad was away. He planned to steal her dad’s bunch of keys to steal the question paper from the room where it was kept in a brown color large envelope. And it turned to be an opportune time for him to floor Neha on the bed.The intimate moment became both Hari’s epiphany and freedom; “I curled up next to her and held her. She tuned her face towards me almost in reflex. We kissed, and then we kissed again. Then she held my hand and did something she had never done before .(p.170).”

Review of Chetan Bhagat's novel, "Five Point Something".
Review Article: “Five Point Someone” by Chetan Bhagat.

(Reviewed by Dr Karanam R.Rao)

Chetan Bhagat is one of the youngish Indian-English writers who seems to have picked up some critical space with his book, “Five Point Someone” that has quite a few sequence of events and a few credible characters to give the book the semblance of a “story” .Or else, all his books to date, are merely in the genre of a reportage where nothing tangible happens .Both  of his books, “One Night@Call Center” and “Three Mistakes”, his recently published book are sleight as fictional narratives and generate no serious interest.If  Chetan Bhagat’s books sold well, it’s because of their instant appeal to the young readers who are carried away by the writer’s simplistic narrative style and technique. And the language used by the writer is fluent, colorful, and takes no involutions into cumulative and creative lingo to make so special. In“Five Point Someone”, Bhagat seeks to narrate the story of three of the best friends of IIT-Hari,Ryan and Alok- who re-create the whole conglomeration of of IITians whose rites de passage is the centrality of the book. The three of the characters are dissimilar in their outlook, and possess a personality befitting their rather whimsically predisposed qualities. Alok hails from a poor family where his father is an invalid, and his mother has to make do with whatever left of her meager earnings as a teacher. Whereas Ryan is wealthier, and more comfortably posited. Hari, who is from the middle class, and is also interestingly the narrative “voice”; and it’s through his sieve of memory partly and interaction with his active friends in a chain of events that the whole story gets unwound. Bhagat warns at the beginning of his novel: “Before I really begin the book, let me first tell you what this book is not. It’s not a guide on how to live through college. On the contrary, it is probably an example of how screwed up your college years can get if you don’t think straight.(p.1).” The IITians have to do much more than what their compatriots in other disciplines. They will have to slog it out, if only they would like to stand in the cut-throat competition that makes the whole academic atmosphere in the IIT surcharged. The youngsters have to learn quite a few things-respect the teachers, listen to their admirations and admonitions, and yet carve for themselves “a livable space” in the totally different area where there is neither respite nor comfort for those who really take the degree from the IIT as serious academic discipline. It’s a passport to a roseate life. Alok, Ryan and Hari fumble in their own way to keep abreast with the academics. Alok is needlessly pestered by the compulsions of his home, and always dotes on his father and yet- to- be married sister, while Ryan makes a luxury of everything, and cares a hoot for studies. Hari is embroiled in love with Neha, the daughterof Prof Cherian of the Mechanical Engineering Dept, and it’s this love-story that really infuses momentum into the story. All three friends have messed up with their grades, and make them good they resort to “operation pendulum” by which they seek to steal the question papers. In this act, they were caught and punished, and had to lose a semester. But with the help of Prof.Veera they successfully complete a research project, and also manage to get jobs in MNC’s with the exception of Ryan who becomes a research assistant to work on his pet research project which was later to be funded by his father. The story ends with a serene note-“All’s well that ends well.” But it’s the love story of Neha and Hari that forms the pivot of the whole story as it becomes heavily loaded with human interest.Hari sneaks into her room when her dad was away. He planned to steal her dad’s bunch of keys to steal the question paper from the room where it was kept in a brown color large envelope. And it turned to be an opportune time for him to floor Neha on the bed.The intimate moment became both Hari’s epiphany and freedom; “I curled up next to her and held her. She tuned her face towards me almost in reflex. We kissed, and then we kissed again. Then she held my hand and did something she had never done before .(p.170).”