Five Point Someone

Yup, saw name of this book in many other's fav books n as it suited my 'needs' these days got hold of Five Point Someone and my what a book it is...
Really worth reading, author has written it such that we can actually relate to the characters in the book. Story of three jugheads Ryan, Amit n Chetan who have to fight for their carrers, family, love just because they couldn't fit into IIT's grading system of mugging the subjects off...
I always thought that in IIT's it must be diffrent. We did the same mugging business in our schools then in our engg. With the exception of the mathematical subjects in Electrical it was almost as if u have to finish mugging all the expected questions. But IIT's also have same system, with little research incentive! How can we expect then to have scientists in this country!

Though this is a true story but I loved n hated afterwards the last part of it the most... The student's convocation ceremony where the Dean of Mech Department accepts all that has been wrong with him n college n how these boys have 'earned' more from this college than him as they have made best friends and enjoyed their life n also done some research work. All the time during that chap. I was truly amazed at how a person as senior n as adament can accept these things in public.
In fact these guts only make a person great! If u have loads of knowledge n experience but u can't share it properly, accept the flaws in the system, be bold enough to think of change then u don't deserve to be remembered at the end of ur life.
U must have guts to accept the truth, whatever it is, n tell it in front of all!!!
And this prof. was doing exactly the same thing till, shit, it was all a dream... Prof. had said nothing at all like this... Man how I wish that all this was true, so that this prof. would have rested in peace after his death....

Anywyz book is written so lucidly that u just can't stop reading. It engulfs u in n we think that only foreign authors can write a good novel!!!