Indian J.K. Rowling

I don’t remember whether it was 5th or 6th book in the Harry Potter series but I still can’t forget that photo I saw in the leading daily showing around 100 people standing in the queue waiting for the bookstore to open to grab a copy of the book on the releasing day. The second image was showing 12 year olds reading the book immediately in the bookstore forgetting about their parents. I have seen such children only in parks. J.K. Rowling deserves to be called as a revolutionary as she gifted a new hobby to young ones in the era of video games.

Guess what! India also has its own J.K. Rowling. But here he is a successful IIT and IIM graduate and a successful banker before becoming the Rowling of India. Perhaps people will beat me for comparing him with Rowling, but it’s true in a way or two. I remember when I was preparing for JEE and had never ever heard of the prodigy called Chetan Bhagat! I picked a copy of Five Point Someone to know about the IIT life. I was already a Dan Brown fan till then and also had read Sidney Sheldon, so I did not like the book but it had something which made me to finish it. Story was simple and it would make biology students to start preparing for JEE. For that unknown reason, I read all other Chetan Bhagat books. Three mistakes was actually better than others but one can easily skip these books as there are plenty of good books in English literature for which one life is not enough.

It’s not like I hate Chetan Bhangat but few things really frustrate me. Now we have got so many such writers in India who write dull and lousy plots. It became worse when Chetan Bhagat’s books started converting into Bollywood films. But few good writers have also come in this era like Amish Tripathi or Ravi Subramanian. At least I can praise Amish for his imagination. It was fun to read his books except the third one in Shiva trilogy, all three were proper bollywood masala types though!

An incident happened last year which made me compare Chetan Bhagat with Rowling, not for his books but for what he has done. I was there at a bloggers’ meet in Bangalore organized by Indiblogger and a person who belonged to a rural area in Karnataka who had a blog in regional language was a Chetan bhagat fan and he started writing after reading his books. Now it was something. That day I learned that you don’t have to be a Dan Brown or Ken Follet to reach to your readers and make people to start reading and adopting it as a hobby.

Today all the dailies are having articles on Chetan Bhagat’s upcoming book ‘Half-Girlfriend’ which made me to write this article. After all the criticism for his books, TOI columns, everyone accepts the fact that Chetan Bhagat has given and is still giving thousands of fresh readers to Indian literature. If they start reading foreign authors then it will be a victory of the language else our Indian authors will always have a long and glamorous life. If I get a chance to meet Chatan bhagat in future then I have only one request for him that he has got a huge readers’ base and he can actually do wonders in Indian literature. In simple words: please don’t repeat Revolution 2020 or Half-Girlfriend!

P.S. Here are the links to the articles I have mentioned from today's dailies:
Business Standard
TOI Blog
DNA
India Today
TOI

You Can Live Longer!

Yes, you read it right. You can live longer nowadays. Yesterday I was reading about the technological development in healthcare and I came to find some hard to believe ways to live longer. Nowadays modern healthcare industry is growing fast and researchers are getting results for the efforts they have put in for hundreds of years.

Indians have been very innovative and brilliant in the healthcare areas from the very ancient period of Aryans and Dravidians. We can find the surgery techniques in Vedas. Yoga also grew on the roots of Indian culture. But as the centuries of years were passing on, these healthcare techniques failed to reach the common people. People were dying with shortage of facilities and more effective healthcare techniques. But past 10-15 years were really crucial in this industry and at the end some really sweet fruits ripen. Apollo hospitals bring the entire modern healthcare at our doorstep. I really want my reader friends to have well informed about some of the ways to stay updated.

                                                                                                                                                                   

Medical Tourism: Some words are always sticken with the word tourism and those are fun, friends, family and many more. But this term of medical tourism is new to world. When we successfully come out of any disease or health problems, doctors suggest us to visit some hilly places to get back on the track. This is really not a type of medical tourism. According to wikipedia, it is patient movement from highly developed nations to other areas of the world for medical care, usually to find treatments at a lower cost.

Robotic Surgery: Sounds like sci-fi. Robotically assisted surgery was developed to overcome the limitations of minimally invasive surgery and to enhance the capabilities of surgeons performing open surgery.

Yoga: It is more like a business now. And westernited added glamour to it. But it is a true face of modern Indian healthcare. You can really live longer by doing yoga. Thirty minutes a day, keeps you fresh all day.

Modern healthcare gadgets:

At the end of the day, you can prosper in life only if you have 100% clearance from your health.

You can check modern healthcare services by Apollo hospitals here!