Good People Bad People!

Take 1 - Many years ago, A man killed millions of innocent people including men, women, children because they belonged to a certain religion. He slowly rose to power and nobody around him was able to stop this. Today we say that he could perform all those ungodly acts because Good people were silent, they did nothing.

Take 2 - Few days ago, we saw on TV, Youtube that some school girl was being molested by bunch of goons just because she was drunk (or whatever reason they came up at that time). This did not happen on a deserted forest. Alas! the abomination took place on one of the most crowded streets of the city. You could see dozens of cars standing on the street and people watching the girl being manhandled and they did nothing. Again shall we call them Good people who remained silent?

Take 3 - A small city in UP started their own law, they stopped their women from leaving their home in the evening. They banned love marriages. They are forcing the couples who had love marriages to go out of the city. If you would listen to the explanation the Panchayat gives, you would die wondering if the logic you used to believe in, has become outdated? Police tried to stop them from breaking the law, but came back with broken bones and burnt vehicles. I again ask the same question, Are good people still silent?

These are just a few examples out of thousands of such transgressions happening everyday, and it should be stopped right away, you cannot ignore it however small it might be! Satyamev Jayate showed some cruel things happening in India and they were unbelievable. If you are still thinking that those people who remained silent were Good people, then I believe we disagree on the definition of Good and Bad! Protest for a good cause if you don't want to get counted in those "good" people! Also respect women, one of them gave birth to you!

Book review: Revolution 2020

This is my first book review, so I thought I will start with the last book I have read. I had bought Revolution 2020 long ago, but did not read it. Somehow In the last boring weekend, I read this book.
Revolution 2020, written by Chetan Bhagat.

The plot: Its the story of three childhood friends Gopal, Aarti and Raghav in Varanasi, the place where everybody goes at the end for cleansing their sins. Gopal, who is the main character in the book, is a mediocre student, who fails to get into a decent engineering college and in the struggle, loses his love(Aarti) to Raghav. Raghav is not only intelligent and good looking, but also has passion for Journalism and cares about the society. Owing to the losses in his life, Gopal surrenders to the corruption and starts a new Engineering college on his disputed land. Raghav starts his journalism and criticizes Gopal and his college for corruption, thus they stand against each other. Gopal has given up on Aarti, but when he sees her, he could not resist and somehow convinces Aarti to break up with Raghav. Inspite of all the obstacles, Raghav starts his own small newspaper and manages to send the corrupt MLA behind the bars and hinders Gopal's dream. Gopal doesn't care about it as he has got Aarti. But at the end Gopal realizes how wrong he has been and gives up Aarti to Raghav.

Review: The story is not new, we might have seen parts of the story in movies, but the writing style of the author is quite good. The characters have been given enough preference in the story and we get connected with them. Chetan Bhagat has always been outstanding at describing the intimate parts of the story in all his books, so if you like reading love stories, you must consider this book. Although the name of the book is Revolution 2020, the story does not justify it as much, instead it revolves around the love triangle between the three main characters. Even in the half way through the book, you won't see a glimpse of any revolution. The corruption, society, journalism, malpractices all seems like an addendum to the story. So if you are looking to read any serious political story, this is not it. But if you are not an avid reader and want to read something lite and quick, or if you are too bored to read something thought-provoking(like i was), you can read this book.