Hello, adapted from Chetan Bhagat's One Night @ A Call Center, is the story of one gloomy, rainy night in the lives of a motley team of call-centre agents. Apart from describing their lives, the book also carried some arguments - rather, judgements - on consumerism, and the call-centre culture that makes bright, educated Indian youth troubleshoot dumb machines of even dumber Americans - a humiliating subjugation that India, ironically, mistakes for intellectual empowerment.
That would have made for a thought-provoking message a few years ago. But certainly not when delayed, and if d....