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About the Author:

Bhagat, one of the popular Indian authors in recent times, was born in New Delhi in a Punjabi family. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT) Delhi (1991–1995), and then studied at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad (1995–1997), where he was named “The Best Outgoing Student”.

He worked as an investment banker and lived in Hong Kong for eleven…

The story begins with a train journey from Kanpur to Delhi, during which the author meets a very beautiful girl. The girl offers to tell the author a story on the condition that he has to make it his second book.

The book is a tale about the events that happen one night at a call center. Told through the views of the protagonist, Shyam, it is a story of almost lost love, thwarted ambitions, absence of family affection, pressures of a patriarchal set up, and the work environment in…

The hype around Chetan Bagat’s book ‘The 3 Mistakes of My Life’ is understandable. His previous works, Five Point Something and One Night @ The Call Center are runaway hits. They still dominate book store top ten lists in fiction across the country.

Book Review reposted with permission from Ashok Kaneria

And indeed they are well-written, simple and interesting stories with the right message to appeal to today’s youth. Five Point Something inspired other campus stories including Above Average, Watch Out We Are MBA, Anything For You Madam etc. So…

I didn’t expect this to be as entertaining as it turned out to be. Its almost like a movie and you do not have to be an IIT graduate in order to enjoy Chetan Bhagat’s first novel Five Point Someone. Although the book is subtitled ‘What not to do at IIT’, the tag could have been applied to any college for that matter. 

I’ve lived in a hostel too and I can relate a lot to what he speaks about, although my life was not half as interesting as in…

Book review onereposted with permission from Ram

Chetan Bhagat’s “2 states – the story of my marriage” (Fiction, Rupa & Co., Oct 2009), said to be inspired from happenings in his own life, is a story of how two IIM-A classmates – Krish Malhotra (a Punjabi boy) and Ananya Swaminathan (a Tamil girl) fall in love with each other but have to deal with the problem of their parents not agreeing to their marriage.

Though the plot is very predictable and very much like the way most Bollywood movies would…