by Aseem Gupta | Mar 31, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 48 MinutesChetan Bhagat’s 2 States: The Story of My Marriage begins as a familiar campus romance and gradually becomes something more complicated: a story about what happens after two adults have already chosen each other. Krish Malhotra, a Punjabi man...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 21, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 57 MinutesPublished by Rupa & Co. in 2008, The 3 Mistakes of My Life is Chetan Bhagat’s third novel and one of his clearest attempts to connect the private ambitions of young Indians with the larger forces shaping contemporary India. According to...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 20, 2023 | Personal Growth, Learning & Self-Development
Reading Time: 34 MinutesThere is a frustrating difference between knowing something and understanding it. At eighteen, you can hear perfectly sensible advice about confidence, relationships, responsibility, and happiness. You might even agree with it. Then you spend...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 11, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 54 MinutesPublished in 2005, Chetan Bhagat’s One Night @ the Call Center follows six employees at a Gurgaon call centre during a single night in which nearly every part of their lives seems to collapse at once. A former relationship is being replaced by...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 1, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 49 MinutesChetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT follows three students—Hari Kumar, Ryan Oberoi and Alok Gupta—through four turbulent years at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Originally published by Rupa in 2004, the...
