Well…for those who aren’t familiar with this name…lemme tell u something more abt her…She is ‘THE HERIONE’ (I like to put this way) of How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life (HOGKGWGL) by Kaavya Vishwanathan. It’s a typical story of a gal who desperately wants to get into Harvard.
I had the OPPORTUNITY to read the book…!
Take my word…the book is mind-boggling….awesome….astounding…!
If you think I’m going to talk abt the storyline…I’m sorry…you are wrong!!! I’m not here to tell u the lighter side of HOGKGWGL, but of course, tell you abt something which made me sit back n think !
Be it India or the US…the mind set of the parents is so much alike (here I mean the Indian parents)…they want us to follow the trend…they want us to branded tags from the top colleges! They either want us to be a Engineer or a Doc or a Charted Accountant or to hold some kinda professional degree which is recognized (..approved by the normal society)!..And they go to any extent to get the thing done…! They are ready to sacrifice things for their ‘kids’, for no special reason other than though; other than good grades! Soon we get attuned to their dreams…we begin to dream their dreams, not realizing that we are losing our own originality…dreams that we had cherished for long!
Are we going to get the nxt generation attuned to our dreams…?
P.S: I prescribe this book to those parents who want their wards to be in the top universities…
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jus ask tis qtn to urself ramya...
wat wud u want ur child to be?? and jus think if u wud be the indian parent as in hogkgwgal... but the book is really great..
jc..!i'm not sure wat MY KID would wanna be...but i'm sure that i wouldn want to the parent in hogkgwgal!
well ravi...doing something of ur interest n getting recognised is not some dump..!
ya read the book too...
but felt it was more about an identity crisis for Opal than about the kind of parental pressure that you describe
But of course parental pressure and "following the trend" is a major part of college life here in India, and esp in Anna Univ...The sad thing is if you allow it to extend beyond your college life as I have known many ppl do.
What makes one happy is the thing that one will always do, I guess. And if some ppl are happy by "trend following" then it may not be wrong.
Hmmm...
hey ramya,
even i've read tht book.. relly good.. worth readng!! n yeah,, this is ayshwarya.. ur vanavani schoolmate :)
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