In one of my earlier posts, I had written about my admiration for Chetan 's style of writing.
Well, he did his image no harm by making a speech at Symbiosis, Pune recently.
It is indeed amazing how he finds meaning and metaphors in small things and co-relates them with some of the greater teachings of life.
I strongly recommend a dekko at the following link:
http://www.chetanbhagat.com/blog/general/sparks
The most appealing part of this speech is his clarity of thought, and the way he has shown how much the ostensibly inane, regular activities that go unnoticed in our day-to-day lives can teach us.
That's the enviable part...after all, all of us who have been fortunate enough to get education, know how it feels at the first day of school/college (or work, for that matter). Yet, how many of us can relate it to keeping the spark alive, and remembering to have that same, tingling excitement, that zest for life, that striving, all through in all walks of life?
All of us know the importance of goals and priorities in life (but the magic is in the way he describes and puts it!), as well as how to deal with disappointment, frustration, unfairness and loneliness. The metaphors that he has used to describe and co-relate seemingly mundane things with what they teach us for life, and the way he has organized these ideas to make them so very understandable to one and all - that, is where his abilities come in.
All of us possess the knowledge (he hasn't told anything that was hitherto not known), but how many of us can describe it so lucidly and so succinctly? That, is where talent plays its part - that, is where the writer scores !!
