Oh man,
When I behold you,
I see someone in your eyes
It’s not you or your soul that I see
What I see is greatness
What I sense is power
And What I believe
It’s pure and divine quality
When I realized one day
It was nothing but myself
Hari, Ryan and Alok were the three folks at IIT and as the narrator of the story Hari suggests, probably the last people on earth one would have to ask about getting into IIT. They were the three five pointers from IIT and as such, the under performers at IIT, the one people call as the best college in India and are ready to give up everything just to get into it. And “Five Point Someone” by Chetan Bhagat, is just the story of these three people, which I finished reading very recently and well, what an experience it turned out to be! I might have identified with the book to like it, being a B.E. student just like them and with pretty much the same woes as them. Anyway, I did like the book.
Previously, I had read two of the Chetan Bhagat novels Three Mistakes of my Life and One Night @ The Call Centre. They were really interesting and pretty attention-grabbing. The themes they revolved around, the theme of a person trying to meet his dreams and the circumstances challenging him in his trails in the first one and that of people being worn out by a particular environment they live in and needing a way out of it to live at the fullest in later ones, too were impelling. However, the lack of credibility in the turn of events at some places and in particular, dramatic happenings during the closing stages of the novels, both of them, dwindled my appreciation for those novels. But still, I should say I liked those novels.
I was talking about my experience on reading “Five Point Someone” but I discoursed in another track. Fellow readers, I beg your pardon for that. Let’s get right into the subject matter. The three folks, I mentioned earlier competed among a large number of students and get into IIT, the place everyone is crazy to get into. But since the day they get there, disasters begin to happen. What they had thought while entering into IIT at the beginning doesn’t quite translate into reality. Although bright or let’s say competent to get into IIT, they can’t make it to the top once they are there and moreover they remain wandering at the bottom. They are the perennial five-pointers and have a great deal of trouble finding the right balance between their dreams, desires and study. And, in all these sharing of miseries, one thing however they gain is the deep bond of friendship among themselves.
At times, they feel hard-done by the IIT’s system and envisage ways to beat it, with some success but failure in most of the cases. Sometimes they divide the semester’s courses to study only a portion for each of them, and sometimes, they think the worthless assignment chores should be done in alternate basis, with one doing the job and rest just copying it. The peak of their attempts is however the attempt to steal the question paper from Prof. Cherian’s office. I shouldn’t be uncovering all details, for the sake of readers who might be reading it in future. So I won’t mention what happened after that. The book has inspirational elements too, especially via the character of Ryan, who is talented and innovative but refuses to follow the system, or say how others want him to do. He encourages us to look up for novelties rather than grades. In short, I really enjoyed the book. I think it is worth reading at least once. That’s what I’ve to say on the three five pointers!
I rate this book @ 4.0 on the scale of 5.0.
लेख्नुथियो एउटा कविता
तर मैले लेख्न सकिन
भन्नु थियो केहि कुरा
तर मैले भन्न सकिन
कसरी लेख्नसक्छु र भन्नसक्छु म?
हजारौंका बीचको म!
पदार्थको फगत एक अणुजस्तो
पेन्टिंगको एक विन्दुजस्तो
अर्थ भएको हो कि विना कुनै अर्थको?
सान्दर्भिक हो कि असान्दर्भिक?
कसरी लेख्नसक्छु कविता?
कसरी भन्नसक्छु र म आफ्ना कुरा?
जब
मैले त्यो लेख्नु र भन्नुले
केहि फरक पार्नेछैन
जसरी सागरमा एक थोपा पानीले फरक पार्दछ
अथाह भीडमा एक मान्छेको
अर्थ के हुनसक्छ र ?
त्यसैले आज मैले कविता लेख्नसकिन!
आज मैले भन्न मन भएको कुरो भन्न सकिन!
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