A novel for less than a note!

Everyone loves to read novels. Dan Brown’s novels are like delicious food and Sidney’s novels provide mysteries behind the recipe of that food. There was a time when there were very less number of English authors in India and reading hungry people used to go in libraries to search these novels. There was an equal priority and popularity for novels in Indian regional languages. Then the era of Harry Potter came and we Indian also pulled in the flow of reading English novels. The novels were very costly though until Mr Chetan Bhagat was born as an author.

What a business strategy it was. It proved the skills of IIMA graduates. Mr Bhagat published his first novel ‘Five point someone’ at only 95 rupees. And it was really a nice story. Then it was followed by ‘Three Mistakes of My Life’ and ‘Two States’. Both novels were good compared to Indian level. But don’t compare with Kiran Desai’s novels or any other such high quality authors. Their books meant for Man Booker (LoL). I was really impressed by Mr Bhagat those days as now also I have given one paragraph to him.

That time no one thought that there would be an overflow of such 70 to 100 rupees books. Many IITians started to write suddenly. Mr Bhagat’s competitors like Ravinder Singh came into the market. I have read his 2-3 novels but they were only some random stories. There are some funny titles also. ‘Missed IIT, Kissed Russia’ and many more. When you start to read Harry Potter or Sidney Sheldon’s novels, you will hate these Indian novels. These authors take all the cares of readers. They provide all the spicy ingredients in their novels which convert into a Bollywood movie afterword. The motto of writing this post is not to criticise such emerging Indian authors and also I haven’t got money to publicise them. Just I want to tell them that we readers also have some ‘Taste’.

To all Indian low price novel authors: Nowadays readers have the potential to pay extra bucks, you people just write some worth buying. One day your names will be on our tongue then!

Looking forward to LONDON OLYMPICS

There is burning excitement all over the world and everyone is eagerly waiting for London Olympics! We all can definitely get to see the glory of London and the remarkable presence of Will-Kat. Everyone is curious about Michael Phelps’s and Usain Bolt’s medal count. But for me this excitation is oscillating with the mixed news coming this week about London Olympics.

First bad news I got that Nadal is not going to play this Olympics. What a worst news this is! It is like gold medal fades its colour. After that we Indians got good news that Goldman Sachs predicted 5 medals for India with two gold. It is quite good news though below our expectations. We are expecting some more fruits after looking hardworking Indian sportsmen. I am more excited for Abhinav (Indian shooter) and Vijender (Indian boxer) than Phelps or Bolt. Because Phelps and Bolt will definitely make it. But we need lot of support to make it a history. And today I came to read in a newspaper that Lord Sebastian Coe, the head of the London Games organising committee, is in an unenviable position. The wet English summer has been wetter, sparking fears of waterlogging at a few venues.  There were renewed security concerns following news of a shortage of personnel, which led to Britain calling back 3,500 troops from Afghanistan for the Games. There are project delays, traffic snarls, cab drivers’ strike and cost overruns. All this and more led the British tabloid The Sun to run a screaming headline, “OOPS”, creatively using the Olympic rings to spell out the word.

This bad news gets me back to Common Wealth Games 2010 hosted by India last year. It was a very successful event with very successful scam. I don’t want get into the details of scam but it was really shameful and we can’t take it sportily. We dealt with everything from leaking roofs to collapsing bridges en route to Commonwealth games. It was a mistake than pride to host that event. But we could know sportsmen from all the parts of India.

And now we have built a bridge of hopes for those sportsmen to succeed and make us pride. I know that London Olympics will be a bang and will create new sky touching records. So with these mixed emotions and fingers crossed finally I am looking forward to London Olympics!

All Indian participants: Go guys, once India was full of gold mines, so win it and take it back with pride! 

Reopening!

The first thing comes to your mind after reading this title that is schools. The whole world is always excited about school reopening. Children get curious about their new teachers and new books. And parents get little bit tensed because responsibility increases with growing moppets. But I am bit older for this. Here I am talking about my college reopening!

After enjoying long vacations, now that moment has come to leave my house.  Now I will go again to my secret hostel world. Where no one is bothered whether you eat, take bath, sleep or not. Where you will get some good friends and some unknowns.  But you won’t get the feeling which you get at home. My mother is working day and night to pack bags and to make some eatables for me. This affection and love stops me to leave.

Reopening means a new start! It gives you opportunity to do better, to live better.  This day will make me senior from junior.  Though there are many positive things then also we feel hollow at heart.  But we can’t stop sun from rising. Hence friends I will say only one thing…

Face the present, enjoy it…Then our future will be always bright!