The magic of Chetan Bhagat

Few novels take you to unimaginable worlds, few impart knowledge, few make you feel why you ever chose to read them and few make you think about them for weeks together and smile, when in solitude. because they have a correlation with your life somewhere. Writing a novel is different from writing an interesting novel. Only in few novels do you put yourself in the place of the main character and read on.
Chetan Bhagat has this gift of writing novels that can reach people faster and falls under the category of writers who write for pleasure, unlike others who write for booker or pulitzer. I certainly agree that his style of writing doesn't have a rich vocabulary or an impeccable grammar. But, who cares! Do you go to a theater with an expectation of learning something from the movie that you are going to watch? It's just to entertain you, to make you feel lighter, to de-stress you. Same is the case with novels. After all, reading is for pleasure. And, I bet my shoes, every boy who reads his novel will enjoy it, especially his latest release - 2 states.
His success can also be attributed to the story line. It's real. There is no need of creating a story from scratch. It's already there. You just have to add gloss to it. And when the story by itself is interesting, your work becomes simpler. So, I think Chetan is lucky in that aspect.
Something very strange about his new novel is that, the story is old, plain, very much guessable and yet interesting. It might be because of IIMA or because of Chennai or because of Ananya. I don't know. Might be the magic of Chetan Bhagat.......

P.S : I feel this isn't a well written post. Chetan deserves more. Will edit it, if needed.

Risking my holidays

Risk Management and Risk Analytics. Well, those are what I have been reading about for a couple of days now. It's good to learn management concepts and even better when you are interested in them. I am blown off totally. Finance is HUGE. I began to feel complacent about my achivevement when I finished reading(and understanding) Financial Risk Management, Dun & Bradstreet, but later felt too small on seeing two heavy loads of books again on Financial Risk Management in the D&B TU library.
It's been just two days since I joined here as an intern but have had quite a significant number of realizations.
* You can be on a Fazer or even on a Hayabusa but you would hate driving if you travel once from Virugambakkam to Kandanchavadi (for those who wonder what these are, they are places in Chennai)
* Even if you vow not to go by bike to office and take a bus, an AC bus, you can still hate travel because you'll be late - late by 1 hour. Murphy's law struck again
* Check the font options before you take a printout, else, you could waste a dozen papers when you are not permitted to take even a single printout without informing the IT department
* Hot chocolate sucks at cafeteria. Black coffee is way better
* Don't ever go with the expectation of meeting good-looking girls. They'll be found everywhere except where you are
* Always stick to what you know best. Don't eat rice with spoons just because others do it. One mistake and you could mix payasam with rice.