Sunday, May 25, 2008

The Three mistakes

Three Mistakes of My Life is the latest offering by Chetan Bhagat.The book is based in Ahmedabad.

This is the story of three young boys who are still struggling to decide their goal.
It’s the story of

Govind,
a brilliant student of Mathematics. He has an aptitude & penchant for business.an, a failure in studies but a great cricketer (obviously great in the local school team).
Ishaan, a failure in studies but a great cricketer (obviously great in the local school team)
Omi, comes from a family of priests with no inclination of becoming a priest,
Vidya, Ishaan’s sister, a teenager with her eyes on Govind.
Ali, a gifted batsmen & the son of a local Muslim politician.

It’s the story of how Govind, Ishaan & Omi come up with a sports store in their area and how they achieve success in it by clubbing it with Math’s tuition & Cricket Coaching classes. The writer has thrown in the angle of Ali a gifted batsman who is in need of coaching & Ishaan comes in as his savior because he doesn’t want a brilliant talent to be wasted.

Then there is the love angle of Govind & Vidya thrown in.

And to top it all Chetan Bhagat has placed the novel in the era when Ahmedabad suffered with a nightmare of an earthquake & the riots.

The book traces the lives of these characters & their trials and tribulations. Of how their lives are impacted by the causes sometimes natural & mostly man made.

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