Top Indian author Chetan Bhagat leads as India's latest youth icon and the author of three immensely popular novels Five Point Someone, One Night @ The Call Centre and The 3 Mistakes of my life.
His latest novel "2 States: The Story of my Marriage" has hit the stands just recently, and have showed immense response already.
There's something special about him, since he started out to be an international investment banker writing books on the side, until he realized for the better that his books were a massive success.
As his books has quickly found a mark, He decided to finally quit international investment banking as a career and devote to writing full time.
He has also won accolades from the New York Times as "the biggest selling English Language Novelist in India's history".
With his books being lapped up by a varied cross section of India's myriad population, he has achieved a massive fan following already.
Chetan Bhagat also contributes to op-ed columns of various newspapers across the country about national and development related issues.
Several of the issues that he has raised have also been discussed at Parliament level.
With his army school background, one would easily mistake Chetan Bhagat to have an air of pride in him, however he comes out to be a down to earth individual with an equally ground level fundamentals in his writing.
Interestingly, the protagonists in his stories have their names based on Lord Krishna such as Govind Patel in the Three Mistakes of My Life, Hari in Five Point Something, and Shyam in One Night @ the Call Centre.
His stories come off as not the complex and winding types, or the ones that leave the reader confused at the end.
His writings are simple to understand and have an ideal flow to them and they always have a social message intertwined within.
He always feels strongly about numerous societal issues, hence his stories while being light and easily to assimilate, have an air of thrill, humour, and mystery attached to them.
Finding comfort and support in writing, he has now come out with his latest novel '2 States: A Story about My Marriage' This novel is a humorous and witty take on inter-community love marriages in India, citing the numerous awkward situations that both the couple in love as well as their families have to pass through, before their wedding can be finalized.
Indian love marriage scenarios, especially when they have to be sanctioned by the couple's families present a more complex scenario than love marriages elsewhere.
His latest novel is a fictitious story based on his own experience.
The protagonists in the story Krish and Ananya hail from Punjab and Tamil Nadu respectively.
Both folks fall in love with each other and plan to get married, however, find it extremely difficult to convince their parents because the families hail from two different cultures apart being from two different states.
He faced a similar situation when he fell in love with his class mate Anusha from IIM Ahmedabad.
Both faced a tough time convincing their parents for their nuptials.
Chetan Bhagat is a Punjabi who hails from Delhi while Anusha is a Tamilian Brahmin from Tamil Nadu.
Such a situation is common in the country especially if the families are from two different cultures as in his case as they need to come on a common ground in various cultural, social, personal, as well as family matters before discussions about the wedding can proceed further.
Situations are often very excruciating and a lot of friction can ensue if matters are not handled with a delicate hand.
Chetan is now happily married and well settled into life and blessed with two twins Ishaan and Shyam.
His previous novels have inspired Bollywood films, For example, the novel 'One Night @ the Call Centre' inspired the film Hello, while his book '5 Point Someone' largely inspired the film '3 Idiots'.
His book 'The 3 Mistakes of My Life' has also inspired a film which is still in the works.
This has set him rolling on with more aspirations about book writing and his dreams set to unfurl on the Bollywood silver screens.