NL Interviews (Part 2): Chetan Bhagat on feminism and One Indian Girl

[@sumbulakhtar1885]

His books have never been dumbed down. They have been improved.

[@Mr1987atul]

Chetan Bhagat : "IT TOOK ME 15 YEARS TO DISCOVER THAT I HAD NO TALENT FOR WRITING , BUT I COULD'NT GIVE IT UP BCOZ BY THEN I WAS TOO FAMOUS ."

[@AllThingsAudio420]

On Point!

[@dia606]

Chetan's books don't require dumbing down for obvious reasons

[@motionmarketer4762]

I thought the same thing xD

[@pinkjammiesss666]

Abhinandan Sekhri is the best interviewer in this country.

[@mbangroo]

ahahaha

[@mijongripuk4383]

Interrupts a lot though

[@anmoltikoo9338]

*entire world 🌎

[@anoopsachdev5772]

LOL!

[@sheilabhattacharya3854]

Thanks... This has been so Enlightening I never thought I would agree with Chetan Bhagat but i do.. And so much

[@dattatreyachakraborty8207]

When he says you can't return an honour, a valid argument can be made that Tagore returned his knighthood

[@shaheenkauser8896]

I thought the same, but did he accepted the Knighthood, to begin with?

[@kaavi1391]

@@shaheenkauser8896 yes he accepted

[@vaibhavnaik1977]

There is a difference dude. Knighthood was given by English rulers and we didn't had authority to question them, whereas here you are getting award from government of India which can be questioned and can be dethroned. You may dislike the government but you should respect republic of India.

[@AyushSharma76]

This was indeed a good interview, both of the parts. Enjoyed watching it.

[@avedikaarudra1819]

"Allowing women to do well" 😂 - Chetan bhagat ,2016

[@bhaaratsharma6023]

He's probably talking about the society as whole. I think he meant parents learning the importance of education and career and not dissuading daughters to go for it.

[@Ganeshw0]

Yes I agree with him, most parents in rural are not allow girls to go for higher education ( you can debate on that word "allow" but somethings need to start from somewhere)

[@prankurful]

i love newslaundry. awesome abhinandan and madhu...

[@DhruvitDesai]

Chetan trully said ..."Aapko Bechna nahi aata"...I may disagree to newslaundry/anchor's view..but i always like to see/listen...kudos to you guys...Thank you for your service...

[@sahilchugh15]

You will probably won't read this Mr Sekhri but this is the only channel I have subscribed. Personally I am a fan of independent media but it's good to see someone actually defining the actual meaning of it.

[@sourabhmookherjee4218]

We are all proud of the fact that Rabindranath Tagore returned his knighthood.

[@kartikmessner2868]

today i realised that it's not just fashionable to call chetan bhagat stupid. he actually is pretty much stupid.

[@Gaursebro]

watching the interview I realized he knew it very well and he consciously chooses to be like that.

[@DesiAbroadUK]

Unless someone has a deep bias, chetan came across really well.

[@TanmayK03]

This is so funny to watch 6 years later 😂

[@kya_farak_padega]

1) Its was a great interview. 2) Wish this interview could have been more informal so that Abhinandan could have unleashed his sarcastic beast in him. 3) And what podcast was CB talking about?

[@chandrupatla]

Podcast by Deepanjana and Rajyasree - Awful and awesome on newslaudry

[@satyaprajnadas4247]

The weekly podcast they have.. Check it out in their website..

[@kya_farak_padega]

satyaprajna das yup i got it and found it way more interesting, insightful and informative that their videos....and now i feel guilty that i am a free loader *sigh*

[@balajikolli364]

NL Hafta - their weekly podcast

[@rajkumar-bi8lh]

great!!! K.R. Narayanan and R.K. Narayanan......

[@sumbulakhtar1885]

I can relate

[@educationalinformation.9424]

Both of them were enjoying each others talk....thats the way how an interview should be......rather than attacking each other.....!!

[@vikassharma9320]

Enjoyed this interview after a lot of time

[@mohitsrivastava5197]

Good interview. Welcome respite from all the noise on TV. Also, Abhinandan Sekhri

[@muneerpalta7]

I see people falling in to the troll trap..... I see in comments people making fun of Chetan Bhagat... I have watched few of CB's interviews and he comes across as very intelligent guy

[@markonikof]

very agreeable interview, at the end! :D

[@Kashvisinha28]

Mr Chetan Bhagat ..Feminism for us females is basically equality and freedom of choice that we want in our day to day life....and it applies to all female no matter coming from whichever economic strata or whatever place ....its that simple.

[@prachibhagwat5779]

I don't think he knows that Rabindranath Tagore, the man he respects so much 'because he wrote the national anthem' , returned the honour bestowed upon him in the form of knighthood in protest against Jallianwala Bhag massacre. One can't expect much from someone who claims to have 'researched' a book on Feminism by speaking to a mere 100 women.

[@VineethJose]

I wish Abhinandan knew that !

[@kartikmann_]

prachi bhagwat Exactly what I was thinking.

[@sujithrao7974]

But what he said about Feminism was more or less spot on.

[@anantbhushan.n.nagabhushan3052]

Ok. Speaking to 100 women will not bring out all issues on Feminism.. Ok so how many will? 1000 ? Speaking to all women? Speaking to woment who don't believe in Feminism? Reading stats? Reading books on Feminism? Reading Vagabomb? What exactly does? Did he say he researched only using speaking to 100 girls? No, right? He said read feminism based books also these days, that means he is trying to see things in as many perspectives as possible...

[@MiracleBench]

No need to know how much he knows a Rabindranath Tagore.

[@rl1900]

15:01 man that was a split identity moment for abhinandan lolz 😂😂😂😂😂

[@vickskhao]

I laugh whenever I see u as it reminds me of an interview u did with subramanian swamy a few years back🤪🤪

[@sandeepaapian5847]

12:55 Jutti pakistan ki hai...Anti National hehehehe..Abhinandan is truly excellent!

[@v.prashanth]

best interviewer

[@lilly9985]

It honestly doesn't matter what I think about his books. I quite enjoyed this interview and found Chetan's pov interesting, might not agree with him on some (most) bits but def think I might've been too harsh on him in the past.

[@arpitgoel9896]

thank you for exposing Bhagat. Dumb is what Dumb does

[@jitkr1489]

IIT and IIM A. barabar hai.. sab yahan pe ultra achievers hai. lol.. This comments page is an example of what dunning kruger is!

[@anoopsharma3235]

He was so right about Twitter.

[@virtuabhi]

Sekri question on AAP at 19:30 without disclaimer that he is a member/best buddies with members/former members/chamcha of Kejriwal. Disgraceful. Ideally, he should avoid reporting/questioning on AAP.

[@prankurful]

I didnt like chetan bhagat but now I do. Specially because he said that newslaundry is good.

[@vaibhavdos]

mee too

[@VineethJose]

didn't you listen to the interview bro, he plays to the gallery, be it the early APP movement, Modi or new laundry ;)

[@smokinjoe0]

Good to have someone call out extremist feminism

[@vaibhavdos]

nw you are soooo goood

[@ravimishra6229]

Interviewer is same as rajdeep and barkha to some extent

[@prakhar242]

1:10 What the hell was that? He definitely smoked up before this one

[@rahularya1803]

Who is this anchor. He is good and different

[@poonamabbi7448]

22:21... you mean they did not find it objectionable when the people who gave you the awards were doing it, but when some one OTHER THAN YOU & YOUR PATRONS did the same things... That is BIGOTRY... you are telling us, aap karo to chamatkaar aur hum karein to balaatkaar...

[@arvindian]

dumbed down? god, his books cant be dumbed down any further

[@varunbansal2943]

Even better than the AIB roast! :D

[@ravin2363]

2 min silence for the intellectual capacity of those who consider bhagat a writer. 😂😂😝😝😝

[@pikachu5647]

this is the start of a revolution, a revolution that encourages the true spirit of journalism. love you all

[@aaahhsanu]

loved this interview,also love newslaundry...keep it up!

[@siddhanta85]

Chetan Bhagat's book are not questioned due to lack of depth of language. I would rather say the language while not being ornate makes more fluent and meaningful to represent the characters he portrays. However, the problem comes from the 3 act structure that he vehemently sticks to and gives the feeling of repeatation unbeknownst to reader. This repeatation doesn't go away even if the characters changes or the plot changes as predectibality sinks slowly with more book. His books at the core feels like well drafted research report written in language India communicates. Not book but report as the pro-forma is predefined and extremely extepected to the extent of boring.

[@rajatbiswas5903]

This Bhagat have been ripped apart 😂

[@Sky-properties]

you forgot to ask him about his chai pe charcha appearance contract.Lot of other stuff you couldve nailed him on.Opportunity lost.

[@arpitgoel9896]

So funny , the interviewer pressing his lips to stop smiling, and chetan bhagat admitting that he knows film process. Obviously he writes for Bollywood.

[@gyan6388]

Idk why but play the clip from 0.30 to 1:16 at the speed rate of 0.5x. It makes me laugh so hard 😂😂😂

[@pawanchauhan043]

Damn!!! they are flirting with each other. :p

[@mirchshake50]

Abhinandan comes across as a snob, or simply the typical pseudo left intellectual.

[@snakecharmer8058]

Abhinandan does not understand people dont need any icons in life! Comparison with the elite is a leftist idea! What an idiot!!

[@joshuathomas2959]

aren't we addressing leftists as anti-national these days?

[@snakecharmer8058]

we all should! left today should be a synonym for sedition and being anti-national!! Thanks for reminding!

[@achbif]

@@snakecharmer8058 you said everything right except last few words :)

[@bharatvashist4987]

I must say this. This interview is so interesting that sometimes i get too much into the talk that and likes to hear it so much that i couldn't hear the further conversation... i have literally rewind 6 to 7 times and played the video to watch this interview.

[@balasubrahmaniyamM]

If majority of women are who decides what is good for a women, then sathi would have been deemed as good for women (as feminism ). Majority of women were out on streets protesting against the prohibition of sathi when it was banned. @ Chetan Bhagat, So the notion that many women are not feeling as ‘feminist ’, is some how because of some elite feminists, is just bullshit. There were always a large number of people working against their own interest, it is mostly because they are just following what they are used to, than what is good for them.

[@HariharanSuresh87]

I tried to pay by clicking on top, but there is no link which allows us to pay :'(

[@utkarsh96aware]

So after this interview i'll read his book!

[@kumaratul609]

Didn't tagore return the interview?

[@TheRamVyas]

Chetan Bhagat's destroyed him totally ..!! :)

[@vasantham9274]

I will write elaborate book review after reading one Indian girl

[@riyajha8870]

Chetan Bhagat is funny that is for sure.😂

[@Smt_Glaive]

the real debate starts at 23:00 ...lol

[@arpitgoel9896]

abhinandan, you had a laugh after this rihgt ?

[@Mohak_16]

Abhinandan is so much better than the interviewer there at scoop whoop.

[@VijayShankarB7]

One can't dumb down a book as a movie. Both are different platforms and canvas! Book has space whereas film has little through visuals, so there's only so much one can put things in picture. Also, interviews in Newslaundry should be in English, not Hindi and English, because Hindi is one of the Indian languages, not THE NATIONAL language. If the site wants to include regional Indian languages then they should bring interviewers and interviewees who speak different languages all across the nation!

[@GamerwithaConscience]

what's sekhri noting down with the pen on the notepad ?

[@calm_compost]

Typical counseling session for Chetan. What else.....😁

[@kv291]

Bro, both of you come across as sexists in that continuum. Didn't expect Chetan Bhagat to do any better. But Abhinandan also comes across as a sexist.

[@AvadheshBhunwaliya]

But Abhinandan is accepting it.

[@vikhyatpuri3850]

1 thing Chetan said wrong, 1 thing he said right. About feminism his analogies aren't right and about News Laundry ko bechna ni aata is right

[@jitukhatrik]

I like his Feminazi comment

[@okay850]

Chetan was too smart for this guy.😀

[@z013malik6]

tbh feminist issue raised by chetan bhagat is absolutely perfect👌

[@AN-cn6us]

this naxali have problems with jio too.. cant he c ppl getting free data n calls? laal salam to u mr. naxali

[@sumbulakhtar1885]

Free data and calls have destroyed the other telecom companies. They showed modi for propaganda and brainwashing. They took over all companies with the government's help just like qll other things. Everything is wrong with everything named jio. If you look at it with an open mind you will see.

[@jugo3558]

You are correct. Ambani gave Modi a mindboggling propaganda machine in exchange of telecom monopoly.

[@lamoded7926]

unironically zooms in

[@bhuvnesh47]

Abhinandan, why go interview someone if you anyway in the end want to make it about yourself?

[@AamirkhanAK0]

Femenist thing is good for man, now I don't have to give gift to my wife in wedding anniversary.

[@sushantchanana]

So abhinand's age is 42 years :P

[@vats1609]

Do u like dwarves or is that comment just to get his attention?

[@sushantchanana]

The comment was based on the context.. The moment before he said leave his age when chetan bhagat asked so .. And then in a flow he indirectly told his age ..

[@vats1609]

Comment wasn't directed at u ...anyways thanks for the explanation

[@VineethJose]

thought he was in late 20s or early 30s :)

[@kartikmann_]

vats1609 Dwarf?

[@mohammadimaad5298]

i watched it for Abhinandan not for Chetan!!

[@divyadixit6964]

Gurudev Tagore returned the title of 'Sir' conferred by Raj in protest to Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Chetan Bhagat has absolutely no standards. And One Indian Girl is no way a barometer of feminism. And Chetan doesnt understand feminism. To give where credit is due, this interview was logical and why are you on the backfoot Abhinandan?

[@sumandhabolkar2819]

One Indian girl was definitely feminist book.

[@saeebhosale]

I am sorry. There is no degree to feminism. You are either feminist or not. You can't conveniently back out of feminism. It's about belief system. Chetan, please stop calling yourself feminist.

[@Kayonull]

I don't understand if it's on purpose that the interview is being conducted this casual way but it looks silly to me. I think there could have been much better questions

[@sumbulakhtar1885]

That's the format

[@timetravellerthoughts9010]

Plz do interview kumar vishwas

[@rajatbiswas5903]

Abhinandan is playing with this so called author left and right

[@sanketkulkarni2390]

Abhinandan is too intellectual for chetan

[@kushaq1173]

1.one night at a call centre. book was way more better than hello 2.2 states exactly same or little better than book. 3. 3 idiots movie was awesome. book was so negative but it was reality. so please follow reality. not movie. 4. half girlfriend book was definitely better than movie.

[@prakhar242]

Wtf? He is 46 years old

[@AllThingsAudio420]

Yeah, both of them are

[@sanandamitra7237]

Is it me or his personality is like Karan Johar?

[@sgrhwl2706]

Dumbing down is I don't have ego....this joker is far far from art & creativity. Yesteryear authors were brilliant & gutsy enough to call brilliant filmmakers, an asshole for ruining their stories. The guide was indeed a bastardized version of its story

[@quaintdeliveries247]

I absolutely love how Shobha De is universally dislike even by the pseudo left liberal like Sekhri. Aksar lagta hai desh sahi disha main jaa raha hai. the essence is intact....the superficial externally malleable forms need to be shaped from within...not from external forces...

[@chalke007]

shekhari cant stand mocking of award wapsi chutyas bcoz they are his comrade

[@gagan77100]

so if someone supports homosexuality that means he have gay friends

[@vibhatkumar2589]

Of course they are... 😂😂

[@ShubhamGoyal07]

it's funny the way abhinandan makes shit face every time chetan says something completely dumb or pretentious... like to dumb down a book is inevitable

[@anantbhushan.n.nagabhushan3052]

Isn't dumbing down a book inevitable? How many movies will it take to cover the complete liberty that a book takes? How many movies based on books have actually completely portrayed all aspects of a book ?

[@vasantham9274]

shut in people write a book on shut in ppl try interviewing shut in and extract information if you can

[@raghavrajsaluja4926]

I thought there could be nothing more boring than his writings but well his interviews are far ahead of his unappealing work. Bleh.. leaving the thing in between.

[@harshbhandari9070]

8:00

[@snehaaggarwal7256]

I stopped listening the moment he said 'feminazis'

[@gohan12991]

Why? There are radical feminists in this world. There are many women why question every thing and blame it on men.

[@sumandhabolkar2819]

Feminazis hurt the image of feminism

[@oohmahgod]

How the hell do you end looking stupid with Chetan Bhagat in the same room? What the hell Abhinandan's obsession with hald baked scales of quantifying everything and that slavery analogy was just cringe-worthy. Good thing he has gotten better over time.

[@shimungow]

The host made this interview irritating, have somebody who has a clarity of thought and good articulation conduct the show. A good chance of getting some real insights on Chetan ‘s work missed...

[@vasantham9274]

3 idiots must have portrayed kavyashree seismic girl

[@71samrath]

News laundry doesn’t know how to sell.. I think it’s true Didn’t even know about them for years- but that’s what there selling point is Because when you finally find about them, they don’t need to sell

[@suyog70]

27:05 Andaar ka Gay bahaar aa gayaaa... Chetan babu.. bwahahahaha

[@sachetkoul9607]

The sassyness tho in chetan bhagat mocking them

[@Walklikeaduck111]

Please ! Mr sekri and mr bhagat should not be discussing feminism. Feminism is not about women's rights only..its about dismantling patriarchy. Something you guys benefit from.

[@vasantham9274]

chetan this is challenge interview shut ins