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The title was catchy enough to lay my hands on this book as I kept my laptop bag on chair and found this book newly come in for review! I finished the book in two days flat, that is because, I had to sneak time from my sleep and morning breakfast. I could not have read the book in the office hence, two days.

About the author – this is Maya’s first novel and surprisingly it is good , funny, wild humour and full of masala. I must congratulate her on her work at the onset. I hope that she keeps up the good work.

The story is set in Singapore and Chennai. Of late, the Tamilians seem to be hot favorite characters of the writers, not sure though as to why.

So, we have Mira Iyer who is almost 30, single and kind of ready to mingle but the problem is that she earns well, has a mind of her own, fiercely independent and cannot seem to gel with the boys or men who are set up by her mother to meet her. Hence, the usual ma-beti tussle “when-will-you-marry” continues. It does form an important plot of the story. The boss ignores her; the pretty colleague seems to always ahead of her no matter how good work Mira does. The only person who seems to care is Vinay, a friend in need is a friend indeed. He is her team member and a friend.

After being ignored for so long Mira decides to shed her Miss-Goody-Two-Shoes image and gets a new avatar “Bitch Goddess”.  Thus begins a roller coaster ride for Mira. During this ride, she demands a promotion, some good work for her team, she shocks her pretty colleague Sanya, almost loses her friend Vinay, gets wooed by Rohan (Sanya also likes him). As if this was not enough, the plot thickens when her half-sister lands at her doorstep unannounced and insists that she be given shelter; circumstances force her to meet her estranged father too!

So, as readers, you will have some unanswered questions – Did Mira get a promotion? Did she get the projects for her team? What happened to Rohan finally? Who wins Rohan – is it Mira or is it Sanya? So on and so forth. I do not want to give the tidbit details of the entire story, I want people reading this to pick the book and start figuring out themselves. The book gives you a message, a little make over doesn’t harm anyone though it should not be overboard and hurt people.

Sometimes we all need to stop being always nice and make people around us notice and set the things right. The book is all about this and more. Thankfully, there is some dark humour thrown in so that a reader will not get bored.

So, all you people out there, go ahead, pick the book and read it; Oh yes! For ladies, it’s a must read book, some of you will identify with Mira.

Ginger Chai gives a “garam chai – masala maar ke” verdict for Bitch Goddess for Dummies.

Untruly Yours is a lighthearted romantic book to begin with.

The book begins on a lighter note where you get introduced to Natasha and her 11-year-old son Rishab while they clean the garden of their house. Readers’ get introduced slowly to the Rakesh – Natasha’s psychologist husband, who is professionally consumed, an alpha neatness-fetish man!  Theirs is a small family settled in US where Natasha works in a local Radio Station and Rakesh practices medicine.

Natasha comes from a fast forward Bengali family and Rakesh is a Tamil Brahman.  The writer takes you through a roller coaster laughter ride when you get introduced to over sized “Maya” the mother in law of Natasha. As one reads on, we find that though from outside everything looks fine in Natasha’s life, yet it is not the case. She misses the romance and appreciation in her life which should come from her husband. While she juggles through the routine and the emotions, she gets an unexpected call from India. This makes her travel back to India and she is accompanied by her son and her ‘devastatingly handsome work colleague’ Steve.

In India, she finds that her home land has under gone many changes however, the deep-rooted issues in the Indian Society still exists. The realization comes in the form of the visit to her friend Priti whose was a happy marriage but it came apart on dowry issues. Natasha helps settling her friend and on other side her own ‘one – man – woman’ status seems to go hay wire with she getting undue attention from Steve and her ‘blast from past’ Veer .

Natasha goes through a journey of self – discovery in India. What happens post this discovery? Will she go back to Rakesh? Or, will she decide to pursue Veer who still yearns for her? Pick the book and read it for yourself.

Over all “Untruly Yours” makes a good read, pick it up and read it at your own pace. It is a simple, sweet and short book. Smita Shetty as a debut writer makes a very good effort and has really written well.

Ginger Chai verdict – a very good read!

“Opposites Attract – Trouble” – the tagline of the book “Just Married, Please Excuse” by Yashodhara Lal is tantalizing enough for anyone to pick the book and at least browse through it! I being an impulsive reader generally go by the title, followed by the cover page and last would be the story inside the book. When the book arrived at home for review, I was skeptical though; not because I didn’t like the title but I could not hold it amongst other books and flip it over and over again before deciding whether to pick it or not. However, the first look of the book itself was motivating enough for me to start reading it. Hmm.. I guess now, I should actually start writing about the book rather than giving blow-by-blow account of how I read it.

The book is all about marriage, literally speaking! Okay, let me correct myself, it is about love marriage which is arranged with the consent of the families. So we have our own “typical Dilli Wali” Yashodhara (Y) being married to Vijay (V) who is from good old school of thought, though not so much old-fashioned because he does pop a question to her on marriage and he does believe in love marriages. A Punjabi girl getting married into a non-punjabi family itself is a challenge; however, all said and done, they get married and settle into Bangalore later moving to Mumbai. They have some good people like Zareena (the over friendly maid – by the way there is no denying here that we literally love our maids); Vinod (the polite driver from small town with big dreams) and of course Vivi – friend in need is a friend indeed kinds (believe me we all have one of this kind in our circles). The not-so-expected arrival of the baby, Peanut (while reading I was rather wondering how moongfali would sound! ) makes the life for Y a little upside down but not so upside down for V.  The real journey for both of them as a married couple begins from here. Both of them have different views on raising the child. The seven years of age difference between Y and V doesn’t help them much, a visit to the marriage counselor also is not of much help; but then the help does come for both of them from V’s parents who have been married for ages and imagine they never fought.

The book is a reality check on the married life of the Urban Couples who stay alone far away from the comfort zone of the families. As one reads, you will find yourself laughing over smallest of the matters which are detailed out in the book. Y’s tryst with the atta is one of the fun moments which a reader cannot forget! She searching for the ready dough in the kitchen had me out of my wits! V’s character is really endearing and his “I-am-born-curious-and-I-will-ask-all-questions” quality makes him fun to read. And to add to this, the arrival of the maid from Y’s mother’s house is another feather added to all those funny moments.

The book makes a good read, and it can be finished quickly so as a reader one doesn’t have to bother much as to when-it-will-get-over kind situation. Most of the incidents or rather all of it is so much driven from real life incidents that as a reader one could immediately relate to. The cover page is kind of cute (yes, it is a female way of saying it is good).  Overall, it is a good book to spend money and time on it and believe me as a first title from the author; it does make a good read. Way to go Yashodhara!

Ginger Chai recommends this a “cool” pick.

Tea for two and a piece of cake by Preeti Shenoy, her third novel is a story of a plain-Jane Nisha and her turmoils in life due to the vagaries of love and marriage  relationship.

Spoiler alert: Skip the next four paragraph, if you want to keep a blind eye on the book summary

Nisha is a 26 year old female working in a travel agency.  A plump, girl next door look and of course she has no boyfriend yet.As luck would have it, one fine day she gets a chance to go out with the hottest guy in the office to attend a dinner event in one of the biggest travel parties; lady luck shines again and she ends up spending a night at suave Samir Sharma’s house. He is one of the rising stars in the travel industry.

Due to some turn of events when she loses her present job, she gets into another one as a personal assistant of Samir. Soon, she finds herself drawn more and more towards Samir; being good at her work definitely helps her. Samir also starts liking her and finally they get married.

Marriage marks a turning point in Nisha’s life; being married to a big shot had its own advantages and disadvantages. She had no need to work in office but then she had nowhere to channelize her energy so she joins cookery course much to the dismay of Samir. In eight years of time, two kids later life moved fast forward for Nisha only to be jolted out with a shock that Samir has moved on. He no longer wants her to be a part of his life.

Two kids to support and nowhere to go, Nisha heads back to her old house, leaving the mansion of her husband. As she and the kids get adjusted to the new routine, Akash, an old friend of Nisha from her first job enters their lives. Soon her life starts taking a new turn under the firm but kind guidance of Akash; thoug he is younger to Nisha, yet a matured man to take care of things. In middle of all this, her neighbor Mrs.Billimoria pitches in with her tea and cakes to watch over her kids when she goes out and delivers food. Yes, her old culinary skills came to her rescue at this time. She starts her own catering business and amidst all these starts discovering a new life, a new Nisha. She realizes that she loves Akash and so does Akash.

The topsy-turvy narration of the story and the way each events unfolds layer by layer would definitely appeal the readers. Nisha moves to the new city with Akash but whether they tie up the knot or not? Well, I will leave that for you to find out.

The plot is compelling and Preeti has managed to weave a story like a maze and makes you glued to the book till the end. The emotions of the characters are well described and beautifully written down. Many of us might be like the plain Nisha in the beginning and over a period of time, many of us will come out with flying colors in life and learn to move on. I believe, this is a story of almost every second Nisha in our streets, in our offices, in our relations!

Tea for two and a piece of cake by Preeti Shenoy is a simple story, written for simpletons like me and probably you too. Do read it, makes a goozd time pass.

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The book is a simple tell tale of an Urban Couple thrown together in an arranged marriage, stresses of their life and how they strive together to meet their dreams. Along with this couple, there are few more people woven in the plot to make the book complete.

Spoiler alert: Next three paragraph contains partial spoilers on the story plot. Jump the paras, if you want no trace of the story before reading.

Mohit Sinha is a young marketing executive with one of the food companies who is settled in Mumbai suburbs, much to the dismay of his landlord who believes that the outsiders like Mohit Sinha have eaten into the space available in the city! His landlord’s son is his colleague who occasionally rides with him. Landlord’s large family lives peacefully in a pigeon hole and they are happy folks and they swear by all Indian productsJ.

Mohit accidentally meets his college classmate Cedric who adds some spice to his otherwise dull life by enrolling him to his dance academy. Cedric is a guy who believes in living life to his own terms and conditions and he is one hell of a guy who freaks out everyone through his dressing style and otherwise. He and his roommate, a lady journalist with not a very high class TV channel make a couple with a different league altogether. As the story progresses, Mohit gets married to Neha, a banker by profession and slowly their lives go topsy-turvy when Neha starts chasing her dream of becoming an actress and work starts keeping Mohit too busy.

Things go out of hand when Mohit loses his job and both of them start living separate lives under the same roof. He utilizes this time to visit his ailing mother and reflecting upon things that went wrong. Whether Mohit and Neha get together again is what readers’ need to find out.

The books makes an interesting read with lot of action on corporate front, the verbal repartees between boss and executives, little bit of drama thrown in through the reality TV show, impact of such shows on the lives of common man, altogether a subtle reflection of the lives of common people who are simply our next door neighbors.

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You are 30 plus something, you are a suburban housewife in one of the busiest city of India – Mumbai, you have a hyper active kid who keeps bouncing off the walls as if he has springs attached to his shoes, you are a person who has a knack of sticking her nose in the manner ‘what-come-may-I-will-get-to-the-details” no matter what in everybody’s day to day affairs, then if you get inspired by Kanan Mehra’s a.ka. Kay’s story; you are very well on the way of becoming a detective!!!

Jokes apart but if you are looking for some fun loving, rib ticking book with a wry humor which also makes you connect with the daily lives of a common man, ‘The Reluctant Detective’ (TRD) is the one you should spend on. It is a story of Kay who lives in Mumbai, has a 5 year old kid who keeps her on toes, who is overweight like couple of us, struggles as a jogger to knock of those extra pounds, worships her maids who come to clean her house and cook; doesn’t it remind us of as one of the amongst us? She has a habit of poking her nose everywhere including where it is not required to. Her purse is more of make-up kit and you will never find something useful which one requires in emergency like a safety pin! She has to shop for XL size and suffers from the jealousy pangs whenever she has to look at friends who are size zero. So how she goes on to become a detective and that too a reluctant one is the story all about….

The story moves at a fast pace, Kay takes the readers through a daily routine of a bored housewife with apt details, not to miss the ‘dreaded PTAs’, ‘the girly gangs out for lunch’, ‘a handsome husband who has put a limit to her debit card’, and of course ‘the full wardrobe of dresses still nothing to wear when it comes for an occasion’, ‘daily calls to the parents who have  it is all out there in the book and much more. The sarcasm with which Kiran has written about the daily soaps actors, the page 3 parties is really humorous. There are two murders in Kay’s locality in quick succession and her mission gets decided. She becomes a detective albeit with a realization that she may actually be not cut for this kind of job. Her detective friend Runa helps her in this mission. Whether Kay is able to find out the murderers or not is a different story altogether and how? Please read the bookJ. Oh yes! Kay is also haunted by the spirit of the dead and she truly believes that the ‘spirit of dead’ is giving her some message!

The characters are lively and very much next door neighbors whom we all might bump into on daily basis. The portions involving Kay’s kiddo are really hilarious and funny! I am sure each of us as a mother would have experienced all those anecdotes. When Kay asks Kabir (yes, that’s the kid’s name) as to what he did in school, pat comes reply ‘Fusht I hit Arman, an den I pushed Ronak, an den Miss tole me tu sid quiedly in the notty corner.” So, the hapless mother asks if he got the time to study in midst of all this, Kabir responds ‘nopes’. The mother truly believes that the kid is honest! This book is a must read for all those who actually believe in going by the funny titles and cover page of the books! It is attractive, funny, light on your mind and makes a good time pass with the tongue in cheek humour.

“The Reluctant Detective” should not be read reluctantly on any one’s part, you should feel it to read it. Not sure if the above line makes any sense but it did sound good hence, I am going to retain it as it is

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Does the likes of CIA, KGB, Federal cop finds favour with you as a reader? If yes, then ‘The Second Lady’ satiates your desire to read political fiction with lots of turns & twists thrown in.

Billie Bradford is the First Lady of United States of America; beautiful, intelligent and enchanting and married to Andrew Bradford. As she is preparing and throwing herself in the preparations for the next upcoming President’s election and conferences, there is another First Lady who is also getting ready for replacing the original First Lady.

This lady is the Second Lady, who steals the thunder from Billie and she is the one who sleeps with the President, just long enough to know the state secrets and about the steal the power from West. She is Vera from Russia, a theatre artist and who is plain lucky to have the same features of Billie rather to put it correctly a lookalike body double. The Russian counterparts spend enough time to train and mould Vera into Billie, almost 3 years. The preparation of lookalike is so precise that they even did the touching to her teeth and vagina so that no one can make out if the First Lady is Billie or Vera.

Billie is supported in her day to day schedules by her secretary Nora; she has to find time to be Guy Parker who is working with Billie on her autobiography. These two people play a pivotal role from beginning to end in the lives of Billie and Vera. Then there is Alex who loved Vera and who was crucial in turning Vera into Billie. As the story progresses, readers get involved more & more into the preparations on both sides namely USA for the upcoming Conference with Soviet, Russia for replacing Billie with Vera. How it happens is what readers need to find out? The story moves at a rapid pace with the standard rhythm of thrill & drama thrown in. There are enough explicit love scenes to make readers going through the book and hold their attention. No, these love scenes are not just thrown in for the sake of ‘sex sells’ tag to the book but rather these intimate scenes hold too much of the story in themselves and actually make the story come to a standstill stage and make readers’ think – what next?

The replacement happens and from then on it is a roller coaster ride for the readers. It doesn’t take much of time for Nora & Parker to find all about the plot but whether those two are able to convince the President of the truth is what makes the story a worth read. Will Andrew Bradford believe them? For Vera, it was a performance of the lifetime and a live one! Will she be able to perform flawlessly and will Billie be able to come alive from the prison? All these questions and much more keep teasing the readers till end.

As we near the end of the story, there is only one person who knows in the end whether she is the First Lady or not….the First Lady herself.

Do read the book; it will sure keep you on tenterhooks.

The book begins with a piece of news from a newspaper and reading through it reminds us of the terrorist attack in India sometime back. On this news the entire story is set.

As a reader this is my first experience on the subject matter where it involves a journey through high sea and technicalities of the ship under discussion hence, I am not able to comment upon the technical aspect involved in the story. As such, the technicalities are not so complicated to understand! It just shows the high knowledge on the part of the writer about the subject matter.

MT Indraprastha, an Indian flag merchant vessel is sailing on its normal course as defined with two-hundred-thousand metric tons of highly volatile crude oil and of course the crew on board. Maya is the only female member in the whole of the crew in the capacity of the third officer. Arjun is the captain of the ship. The story begins at a leisurely pace with Maya monitoring the position of the ship and making the note of the same and her duty about to be changed. As this otherwise regular changeover is happening, something else props up. Maya sights a small boat chasing them and she realizes it must be pirates. The whole team gets into action once Maya warns them of the situation. The head office is informed about the situation and as they decide the next course of action, it is very clear to them as a matter of practice that they need to surrender to the pirates and there should not be any resistance and human lives are more important. There should not be a loss of single human life; ship anyways comes with a huge cost of insurance.

The pirates are able to take over Indraprastha and only then it comes to the picture that they are actually not pirates but terrorists with a bigger purpose and nefarious plan. The terrorists want the release of Akram Ali Khan – prime accused in one of the most inhumane  massacre in exchange of the hostages held on the Indraprastha. The story unfolds slowly, just when Maya recognizes one of the terrorists Anwar who now has a new name.

The tussle between the hostages and the terrorists, the conflict between the Shipping Office and the Navy / Coast guards keeps the readers hooked on to the book. Added to the existing nail biting moments, another story unfolds connecting Maya and Anwar from school days! It does come as a surprise to the readers but then it is clear from the beginning of the story that Anwar has some personal scores to settle and that is the reason he had joined the militant outfit.

There are lot of moments when as a reader one will not be able to put the book down specially those involving high level planning to save the ship, to find out the next course of the ship, next move on the part of the terrorists. It does appear to be somewhat a typical ‘bollywood stuff’ full of emotions (how change of heart happens for Anwar!); Not only this, we have lady villain competing with Maya on board (now does not that sound like a bollywood heroine pitched against the lady villain who is the side kick of the lead terrorist!!!).

Are they able to save MT Indraprastha from getting blown up in the midst of the sea? Will Maya and Anwar be able to re-live their past together in the present circumstances? What happens to Akram Ali Khan? Does the Government of India give into the terrorist pressure and repeat Kandhahar? Did Pakistan gives into international pressure and comes to the aid of India? Will the crew of MT Indraprastha be able to rise to the situation and avert the disaster of crude oil getting spilled into the sea? All this and much more… read on if you are keen to read action oriented books. Even otherwise, the book makes a good read and a good attempt at maritime Fiction, specifically on maritime terrorism. The writer himself is a chief engineer with merchant navy so it is very much obvious that he has a deep practical knowledge on the maritime subject. Over all it makes a good time pass, though it cannot be classified to be a “must have” in your book collection.

This is the fourth book of Ravi Subramanian and third in the banking series and trust me he doesn’t disappoint the readers. Yes, the story does sound familiar because of the banking background and one tends to search the similar names like Aditya, etc. and all which were common in his previous banking fictions If God was a Banker & Devil in Pinstripes . However, the similarity and familiarity is limited to the extent that the backdrop is nothing but the Bank Setup as usual.

There is an Indian branch of the foreign bank which is known as Greater Boston Global Bank (GB2) and Ronald McCain is the CEO of the bank who has been sent to set the things right in the bank considering that the Indian employees have a laid back attitude. One fine day, he is called by RBI Governor and things go in tizzy for him or rather for the bank and it is on him now to set the things right and respond to the RBI. With all the eyes of media and CBI on GB2, will Ronald be able to deliver is a question.

The story begins with a bomb blast and readers’ will not realize the connection of this bomb blast until the end of the story. This bomb blast is the connecting key to the twist in the story. Like in his earlier novels, in this book as well, Ravi brings out a different nature of the fraud which can happen in the bank. It is clearly visible from the plot that he uses his experience in the banking industry to the maximum. Book is divided into various chapters and it helps readers’ to switch on between past and present and the thread in the story doesn’t break.

Deepak is a high end executive in the bank and so is Karan who is his arch rival. Due to circumstances created by Deepak, Karan resigns from the bank and becomes a financial journalist. Deepak though happily married, gets into relationship with Savitha in bank who is widow and a single mother. How she uses Deepak to achieve her motive is really surprising! Deepak heads the credit card business and this time the fraud entails around credit card business. It is really amazing to read through the book and specially the end chapters where one starts realizing the big picture as to how money gets floated around from one account to other and how difficult it may actually be figure out the fictitious transactions and specifically the ones which are actually designed to cover the tracks. A special character is worth mentioning who doesn’t appear to be so important until the story ends is the “basketball coach” of Deepak.

One fine day, CBI lands up at Deepak’s home and he is taken into custody for his Naxalite connection and the entire nation undergoes a shock and so does the Bank. What happens next? How does Karan and his newspaper team is able to unearth the credit card fraud? Is Deepak actually a Naxalite or does he has such connection? Who is that Basketball coach? How is connected to the plot? Will Karan be able to help Deepak in spite of the fact that Deepak didn’t do any good to him in past? All this and more….finally what happens? Intriguing, isn’t it?

The Incredible Banker is more than a bank fraud, this time the story has a different twist which actually comes as a surprise and may be initially the book appears to be a routine, but I suggest to hold on and to keep reading. It is about work, love, hate, dedication and mean motives and hidden agendas. It may not come across with the freshness we felt in “If God was a Banker”; however, it is worth a read and makes a good time pass and together with the earlier two books makes a good banking triology.

Chetan Bhagat – the name inspires the readers (I thought so until this one). Many followed their writing dreams after reading him and he opened the Indian literary world to the masses. He was a revolution himself when he wrote Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Center, The 3 Mistakes of My Life and 2 States!

The Revolution went haywire somehow midway with the Revolution 2020!

The story is set in one of the pious cities of India – Varanasi or Banaras. It is a story about 3 friends – Gopal, Raghav and Aarti.

It begins with Gopal crashing down after some pegs of drink and our writer friend is left with no other option but to take him hospital, because he won’t get up on his own (!!)  and thus begins the story as a flashback.

Gopal – he is the director of the Ganga Tech College, too young to be a director and only a graduate!!

Raghav – Gopal’s school friend

Aarti – Gopal’s school friend and love interest of both Gopal & Raghav

First chapter gives an impression the book would be a sweet story of 3 buddies. The first scene is set in the school when Gopal & Raghav are stealing lunch boxes during the assembly time and the first victim is our lady “Aarti” and thus begins the everlasting friendship of these 3. The book has been divided into various sections.

Gopal comes from a middle class family whose father is a teacher and the family doesn’t have much income as such. His mother had passed away when he was 4 years old. His father wants him to be an engineer. After all, engineers earn decent money. Whether Gopal manages to become engineer or not is another story altogether?

All 3 grow up together with their own dreams and share of problems.

Both Raghav and Gopal appear together for AIEEE & JEE for engineering and Raghav clears his exams whereas Gopal could not make to any of the engineering colleges. After mulling over all options, he decides to appear again for the exams and goes all the way to Kota for coaching classes leaving his ailing father alone and his love interest.

As it is suppose to happen, Gopal being away for a long time, these gives an opportunity to Raghav and Aarti being together and seal their relationship. When Gopal gets to know, he is devastated and again as it generally happens, his grades fall (well, typical Bollywood style) and then again he starts all over again from scratch. Coaching over, he is back in town; results fail him again. His father also passes away one fine day leaving him in debt from top to bottom. Lonely and devastated, he decides to attend a local college on the advice of one of the friends from coaching classes, and here he meets Sunil. This is the turning point of the story. Sunil takes him to local MLA – Shukla. Thus, begins the story of Gopal as the Director of Ganga Tech College in Varanasi. This portion if full of political drama, agricultural land being converted into college, bribery at all level and we name it, we have it. Along with this, we have Raghav, who is not interested in joining a MNC after completing his engineering but wants to be a journalist and wants to bring the revolution in India. He wants to change the scenario of the country. Then, there is Aarti who wants to be an air hostess but becomes a front desk officer at one of the reputed hotels in Varanasi.

Amidst all this, Raghav doesn’t have time for Aarti and fate again brings Gopal and Aarti together.  What happens next? Whom does Aarti finally marry? What happens to Raghav? Does he become a hot shot journalist? What happens to Gopal as a Director? What happens to his college? All these questions and many more; to find out the answers one needs to read the book.

However, this is not one of the best works of Chetan Bhagat. Period.  As a reader, I felt the story is boring, it is a typical stuff which each one of knows and I believe has seen many a times in our Bollywood movies or even T.V Serials. I guess that we have so much of overdose of corruption and bribery in our country that reading it in a novel does not excite anyone.  The story actually drags. There are no twists and turns, it is just so very predictable. After “2 States”, the expectation was more but some where the book fails to meet that expectation. I have read all the books of Chetan Bhagat, and I must admit for an otherwise quick reader, this one took me so much time to finish it and it was a sheer disappointment. I am still confused, as to why it is named as Revolution 2020? May be the newspaper columns he writes these days have influenced the writer in CB and he ended up loosing his original flavor.

I suggest, please read the book without any expectation, you may actually like it then.

My verdict – As a reader I expected a lot more! And as a writer, Mr.Bhagat could have done a better job or at least tried doing so.

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