Joseph Conrad said "Art itself can be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe by bringing to light the truth, manifold..."
To make the mockery of this statement, the so called biggest selling English language novelist of India- Chetan Bhagat must have wrote his third novel 2 States!
Recently when I visited book shop in Banaglore, I saw hundreds of copies of a particular English Book was piled up neatly. Quite interested, lookd and bought the novel 2 States written by Chetan Bhagat. I have not read his eralier novel. But going through the novel, I was really aghast. What a novel it is? Who called it as novel?
It reminded me famous lines "Once upon a time... finally they married and lived happly"! But this novel does not even deserves these lines. This a story of a IIM boy who is a Punjabi and his Chennai girl classmate, studied together, got placement in Chennai. The boy tries to woo his in laws and finally they get maried with Bollywood masalas - only disappointment is there is no item song.
There is no logic in the novel, no thought provoking issues. The novelist might have thought that mere telling a story in 267 pages makes it a novel. Really wondering who labelled this as a novel. It is not even worth for a time pass reading. The writer must have thought that what ever he wrote is good. Of course he will be admired by the western newspaper critiques and page 3 writers. But the novel does not even deserves for a reading.
God alone save those who read this novel, including me!
