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Chetan Bhagat speaking in the Diggi Palace's Durbar Hall
I was talking at the Jaipur Literature Festival to Chetan Bhagat, the 34-year old Deutsche Bank executive who has become one of India’s best-selling authors by writing about modern India in an easy provocative style way that strikes a chord with young readers.
Chetan Bhagat
While we were chatting in a quiet corner of Jaipur’s Diggi Palace that Bhagat had discovered as a retreat from autograph-hunting schoolchildren, two young guys aged about 18 discovered us and asked him to sign copies of his three books. They were not new copies bought from the festival’s bookstore, but were well thumbed and had been passed round friends and families.
One of them, Priyansh Sharma, said he had read One Night @ The Call Center, Bhagat’s most famous book which has been turned into a film, 100 times. They both said their copies had been read by ten or more people.
Multiply that by the one million copies that Bhagat claims have b
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Like last year I was in two minds about attending the Bangalore Lit Fest because the venue Crowne Plaza @ Velankani Park is way too far from my home and the road to Electronic City is always congested in spite of the elevated express highway. While I was lucky enough to get a drop to the venue last year, this year I had to travel by bus. Thankfully this year, the organizers had put up a list of bus routes on the festival website. I boarded a G3 bus from Brigade Road around quarter past eight in the morning. This is only the second time I am travelling by a G-series bus and I must say these buses are a very economic and a convenient mode of travel. Unlike other buses they don’t seem to get crowded.
The drive to Crowne Plaza from Brigade Road by bus takes around 1 and a half to 2 or more hours depending on the traffic. I reached the venue around 9.45 am. I could only spot the organizers and a whole lot of young volunteers running around here and there to give
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An Interview with Chetan Bhagat
Forbes India: Tell us about the ung Chetan Bhagat. The one before IIT.
Chetan Bhagat: inom grew up in West Delhi, and went to The Army Public School. My father was in the army and my mother in a government job — a typical middle class setup. In school, inom was a good lärling, though not extraordinary. In fact inom see the scores required now and shudder on how one can get a good college. My class X score was 76% and class xii 85%.
Forbes India: You left a secure (though it isn't as safe a field these days!) and lucrative career to pursue the writing dream, a life that is notoriously unpredictable. What helped you make the decision? How long did it take to man the break? Any regrets? Did it help that your wife is a successful professional in her own right?
Chetan Bhagat: inom think the continued response to all my books, and the rising fan base made me feel that ultimately I meant to something other than working in the finansinstitut. I stil