Five Point Someone
(CHETAN BHAGAT)
Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! is the first (2004) novel written by Chetan Bhagat , an IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad alumnus.The novel is set in the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in the period 1991 to 1995. It is about the lives of three mechanical engineering students, Hari Kumar (the narrator), Ryan Oberoi, and Alok Gupta, who fail to cope with the cruel grading system of the IITs and come to be known as five pointers due to their perennially low 5.something GPA's.The story is first person by Hari, with some small passages by his colleagues Ryan and Alok, as well as a letter by his girlfriend Neha Cherian.The book is about three friends who make it to one of the best engineering colleges in India and how they spend their lives here.While the tone of the novel is humorous,it often gives important messages.It shows the degree of obsessiveness people tend to acquire when it comes to getting selected into the hallowed institutions.Five point someone could be said to be the book version of the Bollywood movie Dil Chahta Hai, blended in the lives of three
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