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.