He used to be the head of KPMG’s Consulting Practice, and the co-head of their Risk Advisory Services. Aatish Taseerīooks: The Way Things Were, Noon, Manto: Selected Stories, The Temple-Goers, Stranger To History: A Son’s Journey Through Islamic LandsĪfter having basked in the glory of journalistic brilliance-working with brands like Time Magazine and The Sunday Telegraph-Aatish used his skill as a wordsmith to write books that remain critically acclaimed to this day. Instead, try reading some of the books written by the following authors whose words and storylines delve deeper into your conscience and make you think about more than sappy romances that end up on movie screens, instead of life lessons.
If you want to call yourself an intellectual, you need to have actual knowledge and understanding of what constitutes as real intellect. If you really want to call yourself an avid reader, then, you should read books that are worthy of making you exactly that. Unfortunately, that never qualifies as literature in the first place. That’s the current predicament of young Indians who read.Ĩ0 per cent of people don’t know Indian authors who don’t write clickbaity stories that were meant to be turned into spicy Bollywood flicks.
The education system isn’t helping things when they place someone like a Chetan Bhagat on the reading list for a college curriculum. Young Indians consider that modern Indian literature. The current predicament of young Indians who read- a short collection of books by Chetan Bhagat, Durjoy Dutta, Amish Tripathi and Anuja Chauhan, stacked one atop the other, on a bedside table.
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