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Book Review: What Young India Wants by Chetan Bhagat

After penning down number of light novels, this time Chetan Bhagat tried hands into non-fiction. ‘What Young India Wants’ by Chetan Bhagat is one such book where he took time to interact with the youth of India. As per the current situation and heat of the country, Mr. Bhagat wisely segmented the book into three parts: Society, Youth, and Politics. After this there are two short stories.


Over a period of time, he has been a columnist for an array of magazines and newspapers. Basically, he has taken content of this book from those articles and columns. In a sense, it is a compilation of his past writings. Well, but he has put in everything in a very simple language so even the non-regular readers can flit by his book. In this book, he talked about and discussed student suicide problems, corruption, economy problems and so on. But he insisted that the omen should not fall on the shoulders of politicians – blaming them is a lost battle – rather citizens (especially youth) need to take charge of the situation.

On a positive side, he tried offering solutions to many problems, but they are feasible or not, that cannot be said. He is of the opinion that youth has the capacity, if they got infused with right attitude, to take India near to as a super power in the world. Well, with this book Chetan tried to inspire the people of India to tackle the issues that they face every day in life.

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