IIT
I’m reading Five Point Someone by IITian Chetan Bhagat for the first time in my life. It was one of those hugely popular books i had given a miss, owing to my lack of faith in Indian authors. But my faith changed sides effortlessly after i read recently a book called Anything For You Ma’am by another IITian Tushar Raheja.
AFYM was fun, easy on my senses and fluid – if not exactly adrenaline inducing. A commendable job for a first timer, though the treatment is too simple and cliched and the jokes sometimes juvenile.
Five Point Someone is many notches above though; perhaps injecting a less potent sympathetomimetic drug into my veins, if not exactly epinephrine.
Both the books have connected me to one thing in common: IIT-D. It’s fascinating how a college’s campus can reach cult status throughout the country. And since i recently got in touch with some friends at IIT-D, so the books seem all the more relevant.
