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"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." ~ Oscar Wilde. Before I begin talking about an idea, which I'd like to call the Chetan Bhagat Syndrome, I'd like you all to know that I love Chetan Bhagat and this is not meant to demean him or his work but to highlight an idea, an idea I think is seriously hindering the progress of economies world wide. The Chetan Bhagat Syndrome Anyone who has read Chetan Bhagat from his first book "five point someone" would find Chetan Bhagat's work now increasingly predictable, bordering on boring slowly distancing itself from creativity. His first book was good, but then Mr. Chetan Bhagat decided to get full time into the work of writing and that's when the problem started. To sustain himself he needs to write, something which he thinks he maybe good at, but the problem is that he is a product of an educational system that kills creativity. Here is how. It is a well establish...

The professor's [Boman Irani] pen (which he had to hand over to the brightest student), was built by fischer space pen company specially for use in zero gravity. The common misconception associated with it is that NASA spent millions of dollars on making it and smarter Russians (atleast thats how I heard it) instead went ahead and used a pencil in space (I was a victim of the same misconception). I decided to check prof's argument on Wikipedia and here is what it says, There exists a common urban legend claiming that the Americans spent millions of dollars developing the Space Pen, and the Russians used a pencil. In fact, NASA programs have used pencils (for example a 1965 order of mechanical pencils) but because of the danger that a broken-off pencil tip poses in zero gravity and the flammable nature of the wood present in pencils a better solution was needed. [Read more about Space Pen here ] Assuming Wiki to be accurate, the Prof was correct at the end of the movie. Som...