My Response to the mail by Gopi Ram to Chetan Bhagat

Came across a post on facebook which was to THE Chetan Bhagat (who so ever needs introduction to this name should leave reading this post coz he/she is not worth it) …. It was kind of an attempt (a gross one rather) to oppose to what Mr. Bhagat said for THE Narayan Murthy few days ago …. Here is the link… read it... will give you the reason of this post

https://www.facebook.com/notes/gopi-ram/a-letter-to-chetan-bhagat-/228517470538128

As it was hell of a time since I commented on something in the most granular manner … so thought of doing the same on this post by Mr. Gopi Ram (don’t ask me who he is) …. And with all due respect Mr. Ram …. Any of my following comments are not against you or opposing you …. The reason being … Your post has forced me to read it completely and thoroughly and has forced me to comment on the same... that’s impressive....:D

So on the post by Mr. Gopi Ram which I love to call … THE QUEST TO BE GROSSLY FAMOUS …… here are my comments...
Before committing... Please do bare the following 4 paragraphs discussing about my point of view on this Bhagat-Murthy word-war….. Consider this as the plot for the complete write-up

First of all …. People all round the nation just are screaming their brains out that “how Mr. Bhagat say Infosys as body shopping company”... This itself proved Mr. Bhagat’s point …. What he meant to say (as I understood by his interview) was … The choice of words many times kills the total essence and logic of the message delivered … Mr. Bhagat’s Idea behind his reaction might be something like.... We should not hire professionals just to fill the seats in U.S. and earn dollars but to hire them to generate jobs FOR India and not FROM India FOR US …

Now as soon as I say this the people knowing me will shoot the question … “ok so you won’t go to US right??” with sarcastic smiles on their faces …. Well my answer is of course I will go to US if got a chance … why … to get the actual price of what I am delivering... because the Information Technology Industry system itself is so hypocrite that an I.T. guy with some years of experience is given work twice as that of his experience but when it comes to money …. You in fraction of second become “dude with less experience”

It’s the initial steps taken to form Indian I.T. Industry which were disaster...
Now coming back to the topic… Mr. Bhagat’s would have said what he intended in a non-pin-pointing manner, like if He would have said …. “Mr. Murthy being one of the pioneers of Indian I.T. industry can now improve the system of just creating Employment FROM India FOR US into creating Employment FOR India … this statement would have been a total non-controversial one ….. But he deliberately chooses a phrase which shouldn’t be said for a great man as Mr. Murthy …. Only to prove that how the intent behind his message was flushed because of the words he chooses.

Same way … Mr. Murthy though might have no intent of saying anything bad about the IIT students … he might wanted to point out the coaching class trend and the other foul things in the education system right now …. But the choice of his words “quality of the IIT students has deteriorated” seem to be pin pointing the soft target “the students” which lead to his whole intent of the message flushed …..
THUS …. The agitation of many people like Mr. Gopi Ram has all together proved Mr. Bhagat’s point even more clearly.

Now I would like to reply on the well written cheap shots Mr. Ram has played against Mr. Bhagat ….. Because of 2 reasons …. First is yes I am a Chetan Bhagat fan …. And second … its 2:00 AM and I am not able to sleep …. So this act may create some peace in my head...

MY COMMENTS on the allegation of “not discussing anything about IIT” by Mr. GOPI RAM:

You said in the first few lines that why Chetan Bhagat never discusses about the knowledge he gained in IIT and IIM in public statements ….

• Why should he? He shares with people the talent he is gifted with and the hard work he has put to polish the same …. And it is HIS WRITING …. And if you have an opinion that WRITING is not a talent or knowledge to be proud of in front of engineering and Finance …. Well what can I say to a highly immature guy like you who considered such a divine and powerful gift of WRITING as nothing

• Also 2 times you tried to pin point that 5 point someone had nothing about IIT … how to study in IIT … there was nothing about the technical stuff ….. DUDE … it was supposed to be like that …. The title said “what NOT to do in IIT”... And the same is clearly stated as the opening lines on page 1 of the novel ….. Hope you have read the novel before committing on the same ….. The novel was a pure act of fiction …. It was an excellent write up to give you a relaxed ride into a fictional story of 3 friends and their college life … it’s the GUYS like you mix this excellent work of fiction with reality …. Who just hear the word IIT and can’t think anything other than Technical stuff….. Don’t worry ... WE think just same as most of the mediocre people think …. But WE don’t have any stand to question on the knowledge and talent of a person with such a mammoth stature.

MY COMMENTS ON the lame “Bhagat-Aamir” comparison by Mr. GOPI RAM:



I have 5 very specific points to tell for this part of the post

• What’s up with this “yo” … its “YOU” … DUDE …..

• You said that if Amir khan’s characters was depicting Mr. Bhagat and if he would have become a writer and all then the movie would be a disaster …. Now I can’t stop laughing …. Aamir khan’s character was not of that of Chetan Bhagat’s i.e. HARI in “five point someone” ….. The character HARI was never a leader as rancho in the movie …. In the novel it was Ryan ….. The character of Aamir khan was never supposed to be that of Hari …. It cannot be as they are not at all related …. Alas … you my friend ….. Gopi Ram …. Only watch the movie and read the novels … like other mediocre people do …. But don’t study them ….

• You said that Mr. Bhagat should “Stop judging and blaming and try to fix the problems” …. Well my friend … Mr. Bhagat never blames anybody in his novels … He point out what he things going wrong so that people can think on it …. Which He can do in his jurisdiction …. What you think Mr. Bhagat is … SHAKTIMAN … who has the responsibility to fix whatever is wrong …. He too is a normal human being dude …. But he has the gift of writing miracles and he uses the same to max of his ability to do what can be done to remove evils from the society …. Alas you didn’t understand this even after he published 4 great novels ….. Hope you understand this in the fifth and the latest one…..

• And By the way … this gift of Mr. Bhagat to create magic out of the words should NOT be said as “sophisticated writing skills and metaphors” … it sounds as if you are saying that the guy is a show off …. Remember my friend… Show off is what guys like me do when I write …. Not THE Chetan Bhagat.

• Also when you compared Chetan Bhagat with the character “Suhas” in the movie 3 idiots …. It sound like what Mr. Bhagat did … i.e. first going into IIT and then into IIM …. Is something not good … or is lame … or is stupidity …. Well most of the people want to see the side comfortable to them think that... I will give you an example

• If my aim is to be an engineer …. And the ultimate goal is to get into one of the most reputed engineering company …. What my background should be as decided by the education system of India … I should be qualified in some way or the other in mathematics, physics or chemistry … then I should prepare for an engineering test to get into some great college like IIT ….. I can get into the respective engineering fields and get the best company if I work hard …. Fair ENOUGH straight route ….. BUT here also people do take up the initial course say as chemistry and land up writing some computer code in some I.T. industry … but you won’t say those people stupid as they fall into your comfort zone. Ok leave such people …

• Now if my aim is to be a banker …. And my ultimate goal is to working in one of the most biggest financing companies in the world … What my background should be as decided by the education system of India … if I take up the fair ENOUGH straight route and do a BBA and then apply for C.A.T. .. Work hard as hell and get into IIM …. I am into IIM and I have followed the path which starts and ends to what I want …. Then why when getting selected for companies, I am being considered as low priority that the students who did engineering and then came to IIMs.

• My point it the route for an administrative job laid by the Education System of India is not as straight as that of engineering job …. If one has to fulfil his dream to be at the top in Finance … he has to go through engineering to prove his worth.

• So before criticizing Mr. Bhagat on the path he chooses to do first IIT and then IIM …. Consider that he had that only path to follow to attain excellence … and appreciate the guy that he proved every time that he has an upper hand and he is not a fluke by cracking 2 most prestigious institutions in India.

MY COMMENTS ON the Final and the most ridiculous part of the post by Mr. GOPI RAM :

• I guess I have answered to your anger on Mr. Bhagat using “body shopping” word for Mr. Murthy and your concerns of Mr. Bhagat not doing anything for the society earlier in this pot of mine (if you understood the whole thing).

• Till the time I reached the end of your post Mr. RAM …. I was so impressed … but this last part disappointed me …. You all together didn’t understand Mr. Bhagat’s comments at the first place …. He never meant to say that Mr. Murthy didn’t have the right to say about IIT …. He said that Mr. Murthy has NO RIGHT to say BAD about IIT student considering the very fact that many of those students consider Mr. Murthy as their role model …. Mr. Murthy should have known that how depressing this might sound to the students who work hard but at the end hear this from their very own role model. Why Mr. Murthy had to target the student who are at such a juncture of their lives where such a statement from him can result into very serious consequences …. Being one of the highest employment creators of the country … as you said Mr. RAM …. Shouldn’t Mr. Murthy act a bit responsibly while making public statements … knowing very well the fact that his statements are being memorized like Gita by my students. And if the Director of IIT did say with the same use of the words as that of Mr. Murthy … then of course he too is absolutely wrong … he is the director of IIT and not the creator of this world … I can be wrong….

• Also Mr. Gopi Ram ….. I was surprised when you compared Mr. Murthy and Mr. Bhagat … you said Mr. Murthy created employment and Mr. Bhagat didn’t …. LOLzzzz …. Dude these two personalities are working into different genre of fields and both did at the best of their capabilities … its lame to even compare them …. So there is no point of who can speak about IIT and who cannot … both are the gems of IIT and IIT belongs to both of them and they both belong to IIT.

• Sorry to say this … but it was very cheap on your part Mr. Gopi Ram when you said that Narayan murthy could have published his love story and he would have been more successful than Chetan Bhagat but he didn’t want to do such a below the dignity act.

• You saying that what Mr. Bhagat writes is below dignity …. Hell no Ram … somebody thinks that way … He is cheap and not Mr. Bhagat.

• Mr. Bhagat didn’t sell his love story …. He wrote fictional love stories … one of the best stories you can ever read …. And he wrote with such a passion, dedication, purity and honesty that you believed that it’s his love story…. Coz I can’t believe that a guy can have 4 awesome but totally different version of his own love story …. As explained in his 4 different books …. GROW UP and appreciate the ability of this writer to forget the reality while reading his work. This criticism you are doing of Mr. Bhagat actually is appreciating his spectacular ability to make the readers believe his fiction as real.

• And as a matter of fact …. Mr. Murthy’s story would have been a successful book only if it would have been written by a writer as good as Mr. Bhagat …. One of the basic ingredients to write a awesome story is the presentation and I hope you will agree that Mr. Bhagat is awesome in presentation….. So again comparing the fictional stories of Mr. Bhagat with the true love story of Mr. Murthy and discussing on which one is better is gross and is also an insult even to Mr. Murthy.

As the final words for this almost 5 page post :D , I won’t say you to stop writing comments or won’t say you dumb as you said to Mr. Bhagat … I am dumber than you coz I started writing this post at 2:00 AM and completed the same at 4:00 AM….. Wrote for 2 hours... Sacrificed my good night sleep.
Hope to see more write-ups from you and hope that our friendship will grow better and better Mr. GOPI RAM.

See you.
Bhavik Sharma.