= Chetan Bhagat = -------- Fiction books - I haven't yet found a copy of the 2012 nonfiction essay collection "What young India wants : selected essays and columns". These are bestselling popular novels written for an Indian English-reading audience, not literature. They are light and enjoyable, and I justify the time reading them as a way to understand appreciate what an Indian reader enjoys. = SPOILERS BELOW = I'm writing these notes to help remember what I read, not to spoil the pleasurable surprises for someone else. ---- . IIM-A: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Gujarat . Wife Anusha ---- == Five Point Someone (2004) == ---- == One Night at the Call Center (2005) == ---- == The Three Mistakes of my Life (2008) == ---- == Two States (2009) == ---- == Revolution 2020 (2011) == ---- == Half Girlfriend (2014) == ==== Tigard Library ==== . [[ http://ststephens.edu/ | St. Stephens College, Delhi ]] Rudna mens residence hall . Madhav Jah, from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumraon | Dumraon]] Buxar district, 80 km from Patya, Bihar (lots of rice fields) . raj kumar hereditary prince of oldest princely state, uncles quandered inheritance gambling . crumbling haveli . basketball scholarship, Sociology major . Rani Shiba Durga Jha, teacher mother Dumraon Royal School in Nandan village outskirts of Dumraon . friends Ashu, Raman, Shailesh . Riva Somani from Delhi . tall 69 inches, English major, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwari_people | Marwari ]] . p33 "Wants house in Manhattan, play basketball on weekends, sing in a bar, age 12 visit, saw NBA game . 100 Aurangzeb Road, p49 Audi, 2 Mercedes, Bentley, and BMW . parents Mahendra and Jayanti . Rohan Chandak 24 yo, inherited 6 hotels. family from Jaipur like Somani, Bentley === Spoilers follow === . He wants romance, she wants friendship . p61 lemon-colored chikan salwar-kameeze . p67 "half girlfriend" nothing more . p75 Deti hai to de, varna kat le: fuck me or fuck off, terrible end of friendship . p78 Silent Saint of Stephens . p87 Wedding invitation . p92 (m15) "One year three months later" [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC | HSBC]] interview, turns down six lakhs/year ($24K) offer, goes home to help with school. . p95 overwhelmed mother "everyone eats my head" . p102 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_the_Legislative_Assembly_(India) | MLA]] Vijay Ojha . p107 (m22) Six months later, p113 Raj High School, p115 Gates coming . p116 Ojha wants [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lok_Sabha | Lok Sabha]] (lower house) ticket in next election . p121 Samantha Meyers Gates Foundation rep in New Delhi, p123 suggests $20K grant, 8 lakh rupee . p126 two months to speech . p128 Patna's Pride English Learning Center on Boring Road, private classes from Verma sir . p130 TC Train Conductor, meets software salesman Sudhir . p133 meets Gates Foundation reps Chris and Rachel at Chanakya hotel, p134 spots Riya . p140 Riya selling Nestle's yoghurt in Patya . p144 20000 ($800) bungalow on Dak Bungalow road, quiet Indiranagar neigborhood of Patna . p145 Gol Ghar grainery, 1784/1786 British opposite Gandhi Maidan. p146 Maurya Complex retail and food . p157 Riya coaches, Steve Jobs "Stay Hungry Stay Foolish" . p161 Riya tells mother of divorce (1.5 years) . p168 coughing p177 cuddling . p180 Gates arrives, p183 Riya front row, p184 Riya there at end of speech, p187 not there . p186 Foundation Phil, $50K plus $10K/y for next five years . p189 Riya letter Lung Cancer, three months left, p191 ditches [[ http://www.bhaskar.com/ | Dainik Bhaskar]] reporter . p197 Riya Journal . 1 Nov 2002 Riya birthday at 15 (father "touching" at age 12) . 15 Dec 2005 Madhav insulting breakup . 4 Sep 2006 yes to Rohan . 13 June 2008 leaves . 17 Feb 2009 mother Rani insults "desperate divorcee" at home . 5 Mar 2009 Father dies, left big money . 14 Apr 2009 parting note, stayover before speech . p209 Riya left for New Delhi 17 April, day of speech . P210 Riya took all 3.5 lakh, $14K visa for US, went to New York . p212 Gates foundation Michael finds Madhav 3 month internship in NYC . p214 stays woth Shailish and Jyoti 83rd and 3rd, hunts 1000 venues 10 per night . p240 Madison Square garden Knicks vs Lakers . p241 Senior Citizens for NYC Tourism, Daisy from Mexico, practice english for 5 minutes, brochure with Jazz festival . p246 1105 pm "Ray" new voice at "Cafe Wha" in West Village, Bleecker Street F West 4th . p249 1112p -20F, trains not running, 86th st 1134p starts running the 4 miles, 1144p 50th street 1156 sees cafe, arrives 1201 . p254 sees Riya, she sees him, stops singing . p257 upper west 70th and 6th apartment . p259 3.5 years later, Dumraon Royal School, Chetan visit, "not like this 7 years ago" . basketball court, all equipment from the US . three months per yer in the US, she does music, he helps at UN and markets rural tours, . tourists stay in haveli, teach kids for day, later send gifts . son Shyam almost 2