Chetan Bhagat began writing comedic novels in Hong Kong and has now become the best-selling English-language novelist in India, acquiring almost cult status with young Indian readers. Donald Greenless from Hong Kong in International Herald Tribune:
Until about four years ago, Chetan Bhagat was an investment banker who was distinguished from the suited phalanx of his colleagues in this city’s crowded financial district only by his secret hobby.
While others planned weekend excursions on the golf course, Bhagat, then employed by Goldman Sachs, indulged a passion for writing, laboring in his private time on a racy and comedic little novel about life on the campus of an elite college in his native India.
In the early morning before going to the office he would work on draft after draft of the book, trying to get it right. He did 15 drafts in all. He almost gave up when publishers kept turning him down.
Today, Bhagat is still an investment banker, now with Deutsche Bank. But he has also become the biggest-selling English-language novelist ever in India.
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