Revolution2020

Just completed reading the latest book by Chetan Bhagat, "Revolution2020". Mixed reactions came up while reading and after I completed the book. Let me try and recall all those incidental reactions and sparks that erusted between the lines:

1. First of all I had not expected such a title from an author like Chetan. All his previous books testify that. Well it had to be new like every new book, so fine........its not very big issue......but I still feel he should have thought of some other title. (Most readers will agree here).

2. Even before the 1st reason this one comes.......yeah its the colour of the cover.....PINK.....! I mean pink is sure not a neutral colour.....so there must be some reason,......I deedn't get it however... Was it because two guys were after single girl and that girl to some extent was the core around which nearly all characters seemed to hover.....?.! But ain't that the plot of nearly all Chetan-Novels.......?

3. The book really succeeds in reaching out to the small town, non-achieving, mediocre mass that constitutes of the major(most infact) part of the face of the earth. North India being the stage of the drama, qualifies for that.

4. The author's research is impressive, right form the details of the ghats in Benaras, philosophy associated with the city, mindset of the average dwellers there and like cities in India, to how to start an educational institute on the highway........Good job really.

5. The book very innocently goes on to handle very complecated love scenes, though these might remind one of other great books featuring the same, like "The Fountainhead", in which Ayn Rand handles the same triangular love scene with uncomparable complicacy, which to most seems out of the world, but reading these two books together might give the readers some clue to understand what Ayn Rand wantd to portray through Dominique who was torn between the love from two sides and at the same time some hint of hate also..... Dominiquewas married to a successful architect Keating, but Howard Roark was someone whom she hated for his intelegence and was at the same time attracted to him for the same reason.....! She keeps on the same conflict for so long and keeps on fighting, though never gave up either of the two..... Here the two books are quite different in their approach and characters but the content of human feelings is to extent similar, however Chetan Bhagat has tried to maintain simplicity in his words.