Revolution 2020 My take

Revolution 2020 cover page

Chetan Bhagat is back after one year hiatus with his new book titled Revolution 2020. I read all of Chetan Bhagat's books and admire him for getting the average Indian to read. He started a mini writing revolution and many wannabes started writing there own novels following the success of 'Five point Someone(FPS)'. I remember reading reading FPS during my college days, I bunked the classes to read the book and became an instant fan of the book as well as the writer. Then came his other books but nothing excited me as FPS. The plots felt repetitive and the characters had a sense of Deja vu. The books that followed FPS did not carry the X-factor that FPS had. Still his novels were successful, thousands of copies were sold and he is undoubtedly the best among the Indian writers. His new Novel Revolution 2020 comes nearly 2 years after his previous book 2 States and thanks to Flipkart I got it on the day it released, there delivery system is really very good.
This book deals with story of three Friends Gopal, Raghav, and Aarti set in the backdrop of Varanasi and narrated by Gopal. Gopal belongs to a lower middle class family and stays with his father, his father's ancestral property is in a legal tangle and they have to manage all there monetary needs with little pension his father gets. Raghav is bright student(an JEE ranker) who wants to be journalist. Aarti a beautiful daughter of the District Magistrate and a wannabe Air Hostess. The story Deals with there Friendship, Love, Ambition. It mainly showcases the corruption that is prevalent in the Indian Education System and how the politicians are using it for there profits. Gopal is the ambitious guy who wants to make money and be rich, Raghav wants to become a journalist and he even sacrifices his engineering career for it. Aarti symbolizes a girl from small time who wants be something but due to restrictions from has to settle for a much smaller thing. There friendship, love,ego,hatred and deceit through various stages of life is depicted.
This book lacks the usual sense of humor that is generally present in a Chetan Bhagat's book. The book starts on a very interesting note but as it moves the story gets predictable. The way the story starts by a character narrating it to the writer and ends reminds you of his earlier book 3 mistakes of my life. Though it takes up issue of corruption in education, it fails to give any solution to the problem. Overall it is not as great a FPS but still I felt it to be better than One night@call center and 2 States.