The Bootlegging of Education, pages 124 and 125” Black money, fake payments to contractors and over-inflation of expenses are just a few ingenious methods to ensure promoters get a return on their investment. What happens is that shady methods are devised to take money out from the trust. Of course, none of this no-profit business ever happens. On this flawed, stupid assumption that people are dying to run colleges without ever making money rests the higher education of our country. The government somehow believes that there are enough people who will spend thousands of crores every year just out of the goodness of their hearts. Technically, you cannot make money from the college. Every educational institution has o be incorporated as a non-profit trust. One reason for corruption is the government's no-profits-allowed policy for private institutes. Corruption in the private education sector is such a norm that nobody in the know even raises an eyebrow anymore. The book ends as the author visits the rural school in Dumraon three and a half years later he discovers it is being run successfully by Madhav and Riya.“Many private college owners have personally admitted to me that they had to pay bribes at every stage of setting up the college-from getting land and building approval's to approving the course plan and setting fee structures. Madhav always wants to make her his girlfriend. Meeting her, as he would call it a twist of fate Madhav and Riya become close friends due to their association with basketball. The rich and beautiful Riya Somani, a girl from Delhi, is also selected through the sports quota. A good basketball player, Madhav Jha manages to get admission through his sports quota. He has come for an interview in Stephens. Being from a village, Madhav is quite bad at English. When the author calls him back the following morning to narrate his story, he begins with his struggles to deal with students in St. The story begins with Madhav Jha, a boy from Dumraon, Bihar, as he comes to meet the author Chetan Bhagat and leaves behind a few journals from his half-girlfriend who he thinks to have died. He won the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Kai Po Che! at the 59th Filmfare Awards in January 2014.įive Point Someone, The 3 Mistakes of My Life, 2 States: The Story of My Marriage, Revolution 2020, 2 States (screenplay based on the novel) In 2008, The New York Times cited Bhagat as "the biggest selling English language novelist in India’s history". Movies based on Bhagat''s novels include 3 Idiots, which held the record for the highest-grossing Bollywood movie ever made.īhagat''s screenwriting efforts have included the dramedies Kai Po Che! (2013) and 2 States (2014) and the action-superhero movie Kick (2014). Chetan Bhagat'' (born 22 April 1974) is an Indian author, columnist, screenwriter, television personality and motivational speaker, known for his English-language dramedy novel''s about young urban middle-class Indians.Ī noted public intellectual, Bhagat also writes columns about the youth, career development and current affairs. for The Times of India (in English) and Dainik Bhaskar (in Hindi).īhagat''s novels have sold over a total of seven million copies.