Analysis Of Five Point Someone By Chetan Bhagat

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Chetan Baghat was born on 22 April 1974 in New Delhi in a Punjabi family. He attended Army public school from 1978 to 1991 in New Delhi. During 1991to 1995 he studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. Chetan Baghat studied his masters at the Indian Institute of management (IIM), Ahmedabad. In IIM he was named ‘The Best outgoing student’. In IIM, he fell in love with Anusha and eventually married her. The couples have twins Ishaan and Shyam. Chetan Baghat worked as an Investment Banker with the Deutsche Bank and lived in Honkong for eleven years before moving to Mumbai in 2008. His “Five Point Someone” novel was converted into a Hindi movie “3 idiots” in 2009 and directed by Raj Kumar Hirani
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His protagonists are named after available of the Hindu god Vishnu, like Hari, Shyam, Govind or Krishna. He describes his books are entertainment, rather than attempts at serious literature. His writing style is entirely humorous with references to culture language attitude and temperaments of people. He wrote in common language that people can easily understand. Chetan Bhagat, is a rising star in the contemporary modern Indian literature, is a multitalented personality. He is a novelist, columnist, public speaker and a screenplay writer. His notable works include Five Point Someone, The 3 Mistakes of My Life and 2 States. Most of his literary works address the issues related to Indian youth and their aspirations which earned Chetan Bhagat a status of the youth …show more content…
Only his solutions, to problems of corruption, inequality, sexual discrimination and everything else, had been more feelings, or even, at places, less honest. Instead, he relies on clever catchphrases, without understanding ideas and something. Chetan Baghat says, “Be real” instructions come with unsatisfying explanations. (21) Other pointers for Narendra Modi include dressing down and sending old fashioned party men abroad to learn about gender issues and minority rights. The kind of issues, Chetan Bhagat addresses in this book can be entire books in themselves. They require careful understanding, and almost none of them come with quick-fix solutions that involve a handful of simple directions. Even so, with all its problems and vagueness, Making India Awesome can be considered an important book, the kind that can become, if approached like that, a starting point for further, more careful research, debate and consideration. This is not going to be

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