One of the best selling novels of contemporary India; the book shares the struggles of three-friends, who happen to enter the most prestigious engineering colleges in India – the IIT. Sharp and intelligent, the three guys are disappointed at the monotony of academic work, which they believe will kill their creativity. The narrative happens to be first person and depicts the attempts by the trio to beat the system. Hari (the narrator), Ryan and Alok, happen to be the three protagonists of the story. Among them, Ryan comes out as outspoken, with the other two being whiners at most times.
Prof. Cherian, the principal of the college is a tough cookie, who enforces discipline and hard-work as the two axioms to stand-by to beat the competition in the real world. He emphasizes the message of the students being intelligent than the rest and should embrace the opportunity with all enthusiasm to come-out with flying colours to become world beaters. This thought-process happens to be direct contradiction with the characters in the story. They believe the education system seem to choke the creativity among intelligent students that only encourages learning through textbook. Meanwhile, there is also a fling involving – Ryan & Prof. Cherian’s daughter that adds an altogether different dimension to the conflict between the teacher and the students. The story was made into a motion picture with Aamir Khan, Madhavan and Sharman Joshi, playing the lead roles. However, reading the book is still more fulfilling, since the screenplay did leave out some characters from the original, Prof. Veera, the new fluid mechanics professor, who lends a sympathetic ear to the students’ concern, is one such example. This book and other books from the Chetan Bhagat are available on the online shopping website, homeshop18.com. Buy book online for Rs. 95 and get it delivered to your door-step.
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