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!