Fighter jets, Bollywood conspiracies, Hindu-Muslim! Don’t get distracted. Focus on issues that affect your life... Chetan Bhagat’s advice to India’s smartphone generation.
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00:00You could have an entire generation that won't get jobs, or they'll be really underemployed.
00:07A lot of the youth is distracted on their phones.
00:10I think they don't understand.
00:12I think they feel like, oh, we bought some Rafale planes, or we just had something, we
00:18made a big statue, or we did something like that, and we have Bollywood, or we have very
00:22tasty food, or we have so much history, that makes us very great.
00:27It doesn't make us great.
00:29They don't realize what is the problem of being a poor country.
00:33If you are not a rich country, nobody takes you seriously, no matter what is your history.
00:36I think the youth doesn't care right now because they are distracted by their phone, which
01:05is a wonderful thing.
01:07You know, phones can be very useful, but they are not using the phone only for LinkedIn.
01:11They are using the phone for like watching videos on YouTube and Instagram, 4-4 hours,
01:166-6 hours, 8-8 hours a day on the phone.
01:18So they are so distracted, data is cheap, 300-400 rupees a month, you pay, and you can
01:23be lost in that world.
01:25So you can forget about reality, you don't have a job, what do you want to do?
01:28You're an engineer, you'll have to be a delivery boy, you're okay with that, then you keep
01:32solving the case then, Bollywood, and then say, I'm trying to improve Bollywood.
01:37What will you achieve?
01:38What will you get out of it?
01:42You are simply watching these cases for entertainment, at least be honest, tomorrow the entertainment
01:48value of these cases go away, you will stop trying to solve them.
01:52So stop saying you're trying to improve the country, you're trying to do something, you're
01:55only in it for the entertainment, take that away, you won't be interested in this news
02:00item, just as you're not interested in any other news item, which is far more important
02:04to you and affects your life.
02:12Till now, companies come to India and they say it's very difficult to do business in
02:16India, because some government official will keep harassing you, number one, and number
02:20two, we have to really clamp down on social unrest, all these Hindu-Muslim issues, all
02:26this, if you are, like, imagine you're a rich country, and you're looking to, you're somebody
02:30who lives in a rich country, you're an investor, you want to invest in a poorer country, which
02:35is already doesn't have great infrastructure or legal system, now the people there are
02:40also fighting with each other, would you invest there?
02:51You always keep saying, India is great, even if you're saying genuine things like we need
02:55to have better roads, or we need to grow the economy, that the coronavirus is very bad
03:00in India right now, it's just growing.
03:02So you some people don't like it, they just want to talk about how great our history is
03:05and how Aryabhatta made zero and all this.
03:08So I think that's something is a sign of a low self-esteem, because the real deal is
03:15not in like, you know, asking for validation on all the time about some historical greatness.
03:24The real power, the real respect in the world comes when you're a rich country.
03:29If you're not a rich country, nobody takes you seriously, no matter what is your history.
03:32Like Africa is a cradle of civilization.
03:35But does anyone take Africa as seriously as Europe and US?
03:39They don't in the world stage, that continent doesn't matter as much.
03:42Why?
03:43Because of money.
03:44So if you want India to have respect, if you say I love India, if you say you're a nationalist,
03:50you must make sure that India gets rich, which means focus on the economy.
04:03I think I used to do a lot of love stories.
04:06I did one thriller last time, Girl in Room 105, it got a tremendous response, people
04:10really liked it.
04:12So I thought, okay, why not do one more mystery, which is also got romance, which is also got
04:17humor.
04:18It's still a Chetan Bhagat book, but it has a nice mystery to it, a lot of suspense, and
04:24which will make people, you know, once they start reading, they won't be able to stop.