Book Review: Books by Chetan Bhagat

When one is supposedly the best selling english author in India, one must wonder what kind of books are these which "capture the voice of the current youth". After having read 'One night at a call center', 'Three mistakes of my life' and 'Two states' the simple answer is terribly thought out and equally wretchedly penned books. I could spend time elaborating on this but I will not because clearly the author of these books, does not pretend to be an author as much as someone whose writing seek to balance out the extreme erudition of say Arundathi Roy (circa 'The god of small things'). That said this leads one to wonder what does define an author.

I have no qualms in admitting that I am a literary snob and for me these books have no intellectual interest, however I have read a lot of 'chiclit' and even those are better researched and far more enjoyable & entertaining than these books by Chetan Bhagat. So at the end of it all I am just left wondering what was the intention of writing stories with exceedingly stereotypical characters, filled with racial, cultural prejudices. Stories where the characters are black & white and barely have any depth, which a child with limited imagination and with a decent grasp of the English language can write. Is the answer that that child did not write it and this author did? Or is this a reflection of the current state of affairs of 'literature'.