Now, Delhi University students to study Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone

Under CBCS, students from any stream who wish to take English as their elective subject can opt for Popular Fiction paper.

Written by Neeti Nigam

New Delhi | April 24, 2017 07:22 PM IST

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The students of the University of Delhi will soon study author Chetan Bhagat’s first and bestselling novel Five Point Someone. The second-year undergraduate students will pursue this novel in the Popular Literature paper in the Generic Elective offered under the Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS).

The paper is meant for non-English (Hons) students. Under CBCS, students from any stream who wish to take English as their elective subject can opt for Popular Fiction paper. However, the teaching community doesn’t seems happy with the novel’s inclusion.

“Popular literature has its own integrity. Does Five Point Someone really fix the paradigm of popular literature? The book might be a bestseller but the text is weak and doesn’t touch that level,” said Kuljeet Singh, Khalsa College teacher.

The paper also includes works of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express.

CBCS was implemented in 2015.

Bhagat tweeted that he feels honoured that Delhi University has added his books to their course. He also said that “elitistaan theories trying to diss literary value of his books to their course.”

Aamir Khan’s Bollywood flick ‘3 Idiots’ was also inspired by Five Point Someone first published in 2004. The story revolves around three friends in IIT who are dealing with extreme stress of scoring well in their exams.

Neeti Nigam

Neeti Nigam leads the education department at indianexpress.com. She joined the Indian Express in 2015 and has set up the education and job sections in the online department. She covers schools and higher education, entrance and board exams, study abroad, civil services and other career-related news. Prior to that, she worked as a lifestyle and entertainment journalist in The Pioneer newspaper's magazine division. Besides working in the in-flight Air India (Namaskaar) magazine, she was part of the launch team of Indian Railways on-board magazine Rail Bandhu. She has also worked as a city reporter covering north Delhi in Hindustan Times. In 2012, she covered the MCD elections. You can write to her at neeti.nigam@indianexpress.com ... Read More

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