Paanwalas and writers
Writers love transforming even plain words into metaphors that threaten to tell the truth as it really is. This breed loves staring boldly (well, sometimes meekly) into a blank sheet of paper until ideas are forced to get in line and begin marching to the tune that they whistle or hum or sing… or just...
Yet another failed attempt by Chetan Bhagat
Book review.
'The Girl in Room 105' written by Chetan Bhagat.
When you take a closer look at the pedestrian attempts of Keshav Rajpurohit and Saurabh at solving a murder mystery you sometimes feel as if the writer was a curious mix of a genre-challenged Enid Blyton (that she never was) and a pathetically jumbled-up Agatha Christie...
Who says what to stay smart
Smart politicians. Smart bureaucrats. Smart managers. Smart journalists. Smart soldiers. Smart bloggers. Smart authors. Smart travelers. Smart housewives. Smart shoppers. Smart vendors. Smart drivers. Smart cyclists. Smart walkers. Smart parents. Smart enemies. Smart speakers. Smart beggars. Smart pedestrians. The truth is that there is no end to who or what aspires to get tagged with...
Spent. And finished – is it?
Spent. And finished – is it? Review of ‘One Indian Girl’ written by Chetan Bhagat Radhika Mehta, who ‘makes a lot of money’, has ‘an opinion on everything’, and has had sex is the sort of person who has no inhibition in saying, ‘Why can’t women get a wife?’ With her as the protagonist...
Who says a Chetan Bhagat novel doesn’t have poetry in it?
Who says a Chetan Bhagat novel doesn’t have poetry in it? His tongue Reached a point Which was a little strange. He was going to finally grow up.
Bad Novels, Good Selling
You’ve obviously heard of engineers opting to spend a couple of years in some IIM or a lesser institute and come out brandishing his MBA degree or diploma to finally settle down to selling soaps or thrusting limp shares down the throats of gullible investors or happily being an armchair advisor or as the industry...
