Then he went on to blew every kind of wrong adjectives filled with some beautiful invectives for the book he was reading and declared that Chetan Bhagat(CB) should be banned from writing. He explained to me, how CB is writing crap since time immemorial and how it was shit then and how it is shit now. He even hinted that CB must’ve given money to TIME for getting his name into ‘100 most influential people ‘ or to the columnist of The Newyork Times for his comment "He’s making INDIA read like never before”.
I was confused. I asked if he has read all his four books and he answered in affirmative. Now what was that? I was appalled. That guy hated the author and his books but he read all of them.
Not only him, I have seen lot of Rishis who will be the first one to read CB’s books and will also be the first one to bash him mercilessly .IMO They define the words Pseudo Intellectuals and Hypocrisy. The worst thing is this hypocrisy is like a disease err.. epidemic. I deplore when people , who’ve never even read any book apart from those goddamn text books in their whole life, will start bashing Chetan Bhagat just because they heard someone bashing him and it made them sound like cool and intellectual.
Well, I don’t have any problem if someone bashes CB. After all, everyone is a free citizen of a free democratic country with free right of freedom of speech. But why the hell, you need to read all his books to declare that he is useless when you can decide it in one or two books? Also why line up and wait for his next one?
Believe me, I am not a fan of Chetan Bhagat nor his books. In fact the worst book I’ve read ever is 3 mistakes of my life. But then, I think , CB never claimed for literary greatness. But instead he wrote for the masses. He wrote pure masala novels or say pulp fiction with real life- like characters with not-so-flowery language (even that might be a reason for his bashing) and with attractive pricing. I have read Booker prize winners, Pulitzer prize winners, Commonwealth prize winners, Noble Prize winners and a CB book never ever came to even touch the B(B), P(Pulitzer) , C( Commonwealth) and N( Nobel) of the prizes in literary or whatever senses but I never expected any of those prize winning attributes from his books and I never understood people’s expectations of getting a literary gem from each of his book while purchasing . Why the hell do you expect a Nobel literature from his pen when you know in which style he writes his novels?
Isn’t it same like expecting Quentin Tarantino’s next movie to be love story and then bash it coz it had violence and a dark theme. Do we ever expect a non violent love story from Guy Richie before going to watch a movie?
Then why the fuss, buddy?
For greedy gain or plain ignorance........
For uber cool attitude or pseudo intellectualism.......
For fashion or plain cynicism......
Why??????
