NL Interviews(Part 1): Chetan Bhagat on intellectual hierarchies, waxing & Patanjali English

Sadak pe chai samosa becho yaar, kagaz ka zyada behtar use hoga.

who decides what is great.. just abhinandan apparently

CB: "How do you come?"
Me: not by blowjobs, my dude.

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excellent interview.......

The interviewer clearly comes from a place of prejudice.

I have read most of his books and then started literally hating this guy. He is good with channel shows and modi support not with books

This was so entertaining to watch because Chetan is clearly very defensive and insecure about being not being in the "intellectual elite" lmao

Wow...he wants to write like Hemingway and Orwell...Good luck with that Chetan!😂

I have read a few of his books and I was not impressed. I only read them because I was stuck in my hostel a few years ago due to the snow and I neither had my phone with me nor any other book. I don't understand why he is so popular but if people like his books, who are we to say he is not a good writer. Sure, he may never win a booker prize but he writes books for the masses and people like it. I don't like it but to each his own.
Also his love for Modi is super annoying.

Chetan Bhagat is lol 😭😭

Chetan bhagat reminds of # metoo scandal

OK ok

He calls his critics intellectual elitist.
😆

I am no Chetan Bhagat fan but when you speak about a spectrum there is no up and down it is not a ladder and with that apology he could have gotten a proper response without the debate on elitism.

Commander Sekhri apna view Dene baithe hai ya Chutan ka interview lene pata nahi pag rha hai..

Wow commander Sekhri calling Tagore as Gurudev 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

anchor commenting on swami ramdev is pathetic. To call someone's view stupid when he not there to explain his point is just malicious and i remember him interviewing Dr subramaniun swamy at that time when Swami ramdev came up he just kept his mouth shut. Dr swamy would have shown him his true place.
Btw he doesn't shave because he thinks he looks good in beard. I have a beard and a mooustache and its take time to maintain them as well.

Social issue me bhi masala lagaya ja sakta hai sir ek interview naagraj manjule sir ka bhi karo please.

Although I do enjoy watching NL but most of it interview , reports also come across as demeaning to the interviewee. I feel a sense of arrogance and intellectual supremacy in the anchor's expressions.

I don't like his books, but I like the guy.

Haan bro. I don't wanna bash them for doing this English. Par Atul Chaurasiya ji jaise interviewer agar ho ek hindi writer ke saath jo hindi literature mein aajkal kya ho raha hai. Which writers are good. Jo achcha kaam kar rahe hain jo expose nahi ho paa raha hai. Ye bahot badhiya hoga.

I don't like this interviewer. I am not against him. I am a neutral person. But he thinks he is smarter and intelligent than other people. He doesn't want to listen to the person who is speaking, he lacks listening skills. Apart from this, he is good but he tries to force his views. I would prefer someone who is neutral and is ready to understand other people opinions and ask questions not to make someone feel small but out of true intension. I don't like a biased rightist and leftists

He is comparing himself to Ernst Hemingway, my God!

Chetan भगत चूतिया है

As a person completing his PhD in literature, I can safely say that no PhD candidate or literature professor "reviews" or "judges" books. Ever. Magazine writers, journalists and book reviewers may do it but never actual hardcore Literature researchers and professors working in universities.
What we do is analyze the sociocultural impact, political themes in a specific novel/short story/play/poem, its publication history, its readership, the author's biography, their political and cultural views being articulated through the book etc in order to understand what the book represents or tells us about a certain period of time in society and culture. It requires a lot of additional research in philosophy, history, sociology, political theory to fully grasp the lasting value of a book. We don't simply read a book to judge it as "Good" or "crass".
In fact, really impactful literary research is all about challenging established intellectual and cultural hierarchies. Even Charles Dickens was considered only a simple, mainstream popular writer catering to lower middle and working class British readers for a long time. But today he is revered by many as the most iconic Victorian British novelist because of the immense social and cultural impact his works had around the world for different historical reasons. Literature scholars made that change in perception happen over the last 50-60 years.

Is chetan Bhakt is Gay ?

Lmao Chetan Bhagat is sweet😂

AADMI aur AACHAR ne fark hota hai ji 🤯😂

Patanjali is successful business..haters will hater..looser will find every excuses...if it American brand people will appreciate..than fucking salve mentality

Chetan is actually correct about intellectuals. Maybe some people will say that chetan's books are shit but people likes his book, majority isn’t stupid. Some people think that being different is cool but that's not the case. And i follow newslaundray regularly and these anchors are totally bias. They'll never counter leftists but will try everything to prove right wingers are wrong.

Abhinandan should listen more and provide the space to the interviewee to share views without fear of judgement. He can then bring out all his perspectives. I'm not a fan of Chetan Bhagat's book but what he said about English speaking divide is true. It basically comes under class divide. Everywhere you go in India, you will face it, the educated class will put down people for their grammar, accent, presentation everything. People don't want to hang out with ppl from vernacular medium. Logo ko ekdusre se Hindi mae baat or charcha karne mae hichkichahat hoti hai. This is a huge issue especially for students from tier 2/3 cities or villages applying for jobs and who want to have a social life in metropolitan areas face stigma coz the westernisation and looking down upon our own culture is ingrained in us. Indians don't feel comfortable about where they come from more so because like most ppl they are ill-informed abt their own culture and heritage. 😐

Please listen to the guest. Don't make it a Arnab Goswami type interaction.

This guy is awesome..seekri..not agressive impartial.. amazing guy..but not a best seller .. marketing nahi ati hai..

My god...so many tangents and interruptions by raising voices. Why not let the man speak?

Chetan bhagat Stories plot
2 people mets- forms romantic bonds- tension in relationship- and then they had sex -the end

Why is he even interviewing him.😂

I understand Chetan Bhagat might not be at par with Salman Rushdie, or other intellectual writers, but I've never understood this extreme level of hate for him. If one doesn't like his books, just don't read them.
People in India took so many years to question senseless bollywood movies which is much more toxic than a book as it's visual content and has much more consumers but people never had this level of hate for their directors or writers. DDLJ portrays a man acting creepy as a romantic gesture, and it took more than 2 decades for people to realize that It's toxicity.
Also the priveleged elitist crowd spreading hate here, India is a country where not everyone has the privilege and access to English education, a lot of them can't even understand what Salman Rushdie is writing. Atleast they can read Chetan Bhagat's Books which can help them learn a language.

This whole first part (I see there's another one) would be a minute long IF ONLY this guy would simply admit that YES! I DO SELL TO THE AUDIENCE THAT WANTS TO BUY MY SHIT! Simple. He has no reason to be so defensive. You're a smart businessman over an author and that's fine. You make your money but do it with pride and not this stupidity....
Cheers!

Elitism toh ye khud dikha Raha hai..bar bar premier colleges ka naam lekr credibility dikhane ki koshish..St Stephen's IIT IIM

I love the way how Abhinandan interjects all the time...given he does not have half the academic qualifications Chetan possesses.😂

A lot of what he said was extremely sensible. People slap blanket hate on people and have divorced from critical nuance.

Ya patanjali invented the first corona treatment.... Badwa ram dev... Sab ko chutiya bana gaya... Aur mandhbudhi isko hero bol raha hai...

People should be intellectual.... Abey chetan Tu mandbhudi hoga...

He write kindergarten books... Aur bolta hai har author same hai.. Abey chutiye Dan Brown, ki paer ka dhool bhi nahi hai...

Ya salman khans race is same as amir khans Dangal... Kya chutiyapa bol raha hai chetan...

In Catch 22 it wasn't the Korean war