It is not a lack of materialism that slows India’s progress, but rather too great a fondness of wealth for wealth’s sake
One of the undoubted qualities author Chetan Bhagat possesses is the habit of using his eyes. That is to say, he relates to his material directly, rather than through that word salad of readymade doctrines which makes the intellectual discourse about India so fatiguing to engage with. Therefore, though he may lack profundity, he is at least always tilting in the right direction; a clear thinker, if not a deep thinker, in a milieu where so much deep thought seems to exist for its own obscure sake. For a writer must love his material, and love begins with a gaze, not a concept.
For this reason, I wish to dig deeper into an issue Bhagat has complained of in his recent newspaper columns, namely, the absence of ambition or aspiration in Indian society, including…
