by Aseem Gupta | Apr 30, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 40 MinutesChetan Bhagat’s One Indian Girl begins as a wedding story but quickly becomes a story about whether its heroine is permitted to want more than one kind of life. Radhika Mehta is successful enough to earn extraordinary amounts of money at...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 20, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 42 MinutesChetan Bhagat’s Half Girlfriend, first published by Rupa Publications, is usually described through its most marketable idea: a young man wants a girlfriend, the young woman refuses that label, and the two settle into an ambiguous relationship...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 10, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 54 MinutesPublished by Rupa in 2011, Revolution 2020 is a love triangle built inside a larger story about competitive education, private colleges, political patronage, journalism and the desire to escape failure. Its narrator, Gopal Mishra, begins as the...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 1, 2023 | History, Empires & Civilizations
Reading Time: 24 MinutesDrive from Clones in County Monaghan towards Cloverhill in County Cavan, and an ordinary journey through the Irish countryside can take you across an international border four times. There are no passport booths or armed guards announcing each...
