May 05, 2015 10:57 PM
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The best selling feature of a Chetan Bhagat book is its readability. In a world where one is constantly striving to find time, it truly matters when you can actually finish reading a book within a couple of hours. That was evident with both Five Point Someone and One Night At A Call Centre. The former especially works as an excellent satire on the education system.
What strikes you first about Chetan Bhagat’s novels is the fact that this author writes about Indians and for Indians. His characters are young, ambitious and passionate and have the same moral, social and religious dilemmas as many of the young Indians today. At the same time their context and sensibility too is unabashedly Indian. “The 3 mistakes of my life”, has all these qualities but unlike the other two, this one starts to appear too far-fetched towards the middle and then just irrevocably falls apart in the end.
Honesty, I wanted to like this book. It begins well, it’s setting is nice and it truly attempts to give the reader a slice of small-town India. Too bad, the book goes nowhere with it.
