Chetan Bhagat says he has an awesome dream that he shares with 4 per cent of India’s population — the Caring Objective Indians. His latest book, Making India Awesome, a collection of old columns and news essays, is addressed to them, and it's about making his dream come true. The dream is in the book’s title and, he says, it can be realised through four awesome things — awesome governance, awesome society, awesome equality, awesome resources. To make India awesome, he writes, we have to at least give him a fair hearing because his is a voice “that simplifies things and points to a solution” — for everybody, on all issues, and all sides of all the divides. Narendra Modi, for example, will...
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