They get bored with study, assignments and projects and wanted to enjoy the life and have fun to its fullest. They found themselves stuck in IIT system. He wants to get good GPA so that he can get a good job and support his family. He wants to be innovator and he thinks that the IIT system puts hurdle in one’s innovation.Īlok belongs to a typical lower Indian middle class family, burdened with lots of expectations and responsibility. He hates his parents, as he feels neglected by them. Ryan is son of rich parents, a born rebellion. He is an average in study, seems confused but he keeps all three fiends together, always taking the easy way out, fall in love and had sex with the daughter of his head of the department. They are far from the image of an IIT graduate is generally perceived to be and more like an average middle class youth. These three strange students became close friends after a ranging session by seniors and they stand up for each other’s during the four years at IIT on every occasion, despite their personal conflicts several issues. They are roommates and studding in the same department at IIT. Hari, Alok and Ryan are three main characters. In the ranking system in III five points are considered average rank.

Title of the novel “Five point some one” is taken form GPA system used in IIT. The New York Times quoted him as the “biggest selling English author in India’s history”. He is author of three novels Five Point Someone (2004), One Night the call center (2005) and recently The 3 Mistakes of my Life (2008). He worked in Hong Kong and then relocated to India and working in an investment bank apart from writing books and screen plays. The author Chetan Bhagat himself is an IIT and /IIM graduate. In fact, it describes how screwed up things can get if you don't think straight.' And as the subtitle of the novel – What not to do at IIT – suggests, 'This is not a book to teach you how to get into IIT or even how to live in college. The story is all about their friendship and differences, study and enjoyment, career and ambition, parental pressure and peer pressure, love and sex. This novel narrates the story of three IIT graduates and their life at India's Premier Technology Institute. I fond the book so interesting and the characters so real that I forgot to had dinner and completed it within 7 hours at the same night. When I was in Chennai, to attend a workshop at Anna University, I found this book in a roadside book-lorry.

Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat